Sunday, November 1, 2009

Review: Chocolate, A Love Story

Chocolate, A Love Story by Max Brenner, Artwork by Yonatan Factor
Rating: 4/5
Genre: Cookbook 

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Chocolate a love story is a cookbook filled with 66 recipes of amazing things that you can do with chocolate. Here are some of my favorite (and the ones I will certainly try eventually):

  • Intimate Scones (milk chocolate chips, strawberry scones)

  • spy-thriller chocolate Black Forest cake (alpine whipped cream and cherry, the German double agent :D)

  • a philosophical highly concentrated fudge brownie (made of 70% dark chocolate thoughts)

  • a high school bonfire chocolate melting heart cake (cake with marshmallow and chocolate syrup inside)

  • Home industry chocolate cheese pockets (pastries filled with pears cooked in wine, chocolate, cream cheese, and dusted with powdered sugar)

  • Wannabe French hot chocolate (thick hot chocolate like I've never heard of before—this is the one I'm trying next!!)

  • shanti White chocolate chai

  • contentious Chocolate chip cookies (with 2 sticks of butter—you can never have enough butter, right?—six ounces of chocolate chips, dried apricots, candied orange peel, and spices)

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      I only give it 4/5 instead of 5/5 because some of the recipes look hard, complicated, scary, or take some baking experience, but most of them are reasonably simple.

        

      I made the Contentious Chocolate Chip Cookies. Here are some photographs from my adventure, and a few videos (and disclosure).

       

     

     


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    the cookie recipe I used from Chocolate A Love story

    trying to open the apricots


    fighting with the apricots 


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    victory over the apricots! 

      

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    my sister loves taking photos of… cookie dough… ok.


    Here is us explaining the book and talking about baking (and goofing off)

     




    Disclaimer and testimony of how good the cookies were from my brother (he’s 11.)



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    Carly (youngest sister) eating the end result! 

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    Me writing this review and Hannah annoying me. That’s my sister… love her to death though.


    I hope you all buy this book and get a chance to make happy memories with chocolate!!!
    ~Haleyknitz 
    knitter

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    2 comments:

    1. What a great review! I loved your viedos! You look like you have so much fun for your sister.
      I also got this book for review, but I'm a vegan, so I've been in the process of veganizing all of the recipes.
      (the tarte tatin was delicious!)

      Anyhow, fun review!

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    2. Wow! It look like you and your sisters had ALOT of FUN making cookies!! (and they look REALLY good!)

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