Being a chocolate afficionado is one thing, knowing how to turn raw ingredients into sauces, truffles, cakes and savory meals is another ball game.
If you want to learn if not master all the basic techniques from sauces to ganache, tempering to compression and recipes from Cactus shaped churros and ginger-scented milk chocolate sauce to Soy milk nama choco not to to forget Roasted veal sweetbread medallions and rosemary-scented schocolate sauce, Cooking with Chocolate (Flammarion, Fall 2011) edited by Frederic Bau of Ecole du Grand Chocolat Valrhona is a good place to start. Book includes DVD with a number of lively demos.
Amongst the book's recipes we shared the Homemade Chocolate Spread…
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(* Illustration is Black Forest (Foret Noire), recipe on page 165, photo by Clay McLaghlan, used by permission, all rights reserved)