Love and chocolate
Brownie Lava Dessert: texture of a brownie on top and the sexy ooze of a molten chocolate cake below (Handout photo /...
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(02/13/09) Brownie Lava Dessert: texture of a brownie on top and the sexy ooze of a molten chocolate cake below (Handout photo / January 28, 2009) Chocolate has gotten so serious. Fortunately for cooks looking to make a chocolate treat on Valentine's Day, some of the latest chocolate cookbooks are seriously fun. Stephan Lagorce's Chocolat (Octopus Publishing, 2008, $21.99), cleverly packaged like a giant chocolate bar, is hard to resist. A Year in Chocolate (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2008, $35), by chocolatier JacquesTorres, celebrates chocolate in recipes for holidays all through the calendar. His Valentine's Day chapter has whimsical strawberries painted with chocolate to look like they're wearing tuxedos. But if you don't want to fuss, he'll also teach you how to make some good hot chocolate, six different ways. And Heavenly Chocolate Desserts (Ryland Peters & Small, 2008, $19.95), a collection of recipes from a group of food writers, has a wonderful homey invention we're eager to see more of -...See less
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