Product Description

Few sweets epitomize the luxurious indulgence of gourmet chocolate like truffles, and now these fine desserts can be made effortlessly in your own home. In Truffles, Dede Wilson presents 50 clear, easy-to-follow recipes for delicious truffles using milk, dark, and white chocolate infused with a variety of fabulous flavorings, such as raspberry, ginger, espresso, cognac, passion fruit, hazelnut, and champagne. Filled with gorgeous, mouthwatering 4-color photographs, Truffles also features tips on truffle-making basics, choosing the right chocolate, decorating and storing truffles, and creative ideas for packaging truffles as gifts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50181 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 96 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781558322301
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Dede Wilson is the author of the popular Baker’s Field Guide series, which includes Cupcakes, Holiday Candy & Confections, Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Christmas Cookies. A contributing editor to Bon Appetit, Wilson has worked professionally for more than 20 years as a restaurant chef, bakery owner, caterer, recipe developer, spokesperson, and frequent television guest. She is a host of The Holiday Table, a PBS cooking show.

Customer Reviews

Great book!
I have tried 4 of the recipes in the book so far and they were all amazing. I made hundreds of truffles during the holidays to give away as gifts. All of the recipes are really easy and the book gives a number of tips to help the first timers (which I was when I got the book). Make sure you try the cappuccino truffles (p.78) they were a huge hit!

Truffles Did Not Solidify
I made two types of truffles with added liqueurs and neither solidified. Researching what went wrong, I found that, when adding liquid to a truffle cream, it's necessary to add a certain amount of butter, in order to replace the butterfat that would have been present had the liquid ingredient been cream. This seems like pretty common knowledge, so I'm not sure why her recipes with added liquids do not call for the addition of butter. I just wasted a pound of good chocolate (as well as other ingredients) and now have nothing to give away as holiday gifts.

Great idea book
I got Dede's book to get ideas since I am making truffles as favors for my wedding. There are tons of great ideas for flavor combinations in this book from the ultra simple to some more difficult ones. I also loved some of the presentations. So much so that I emailed Dede directly and she went as far as talking to her photographer for me to get information about some of the things used in the photos. Good standard candy book to have around!