Death By Chocolate Cookies
by Marcel Desaulniers

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Book Review: Highly recommended for a direct chocolate experience
Summary: 5 Stars

Desaulniers owns and runs Trellis, a southern restaurant at which he goes through more than three hundred pounds of chocolate (not to mention two hundred pounds of nuts) on a WEEKLY basis. He knows whereof he speaks, so listen up! It's important to read "Notes from Ganache Hill," which opens the book, and which has Desaulniers giving us the benefit of his experience on everything from butter vs. margarine (use butter, please, preferably unsalted), ovens and other equipment, and, of course, the different types of chocolate.

I love Desaulniers' sense of humor and imagination in naming his recipes: Chocolate Crack-Ups, Franny's Big Bottom Pies, Black Magic Cookies with Blackstrap Icing, and (my favorite) Successively Excessively Crunchy Peanut Butter Brownies. I can highly recommend my most favorite of all recipes in the book: the Black Gold Cookies. These have something like four teaspoons of chocolate for every 1 teaspoon of flour in the recipe! They are divinely, richly chocolatey and people sort of lose their minds eating them, recovering later only to whimper, "Wh--what happened? Where am I?" That's the sort of effect a Desaulniers dessert recipe will have on you.

Summary of Death By Chocolate Cookies

Marcel Desaulniers, the prize-winning, bestselling author of such classics as Death by Chocolate, The Burger Meisters, and Desserts To Die For, continues down the decadent road he has paved with sweets, turning his attention to one of America's favorite temptations: cookies.

With his customary wit and clarity of style, Desaulniers has taken cookies to new heights in this stunning collection of seventy-five easy-to-follow recipes, each of which is captured in full-color splendor. Pared-down preparations, concise instructions, and satisfying results make the chocolate indulgences offered in this book the perfect antidote for anyone who has ever considered baking "work."

No one will be able to withstand the temptation of these chocolate cookie combinations, from the simple and delightful Chocolate Peanut Butter Bengal Cookies or Chocolate Raspberry "Cookiecupcakes," to the intricate and impressive Golden Spider Webs with Wicked Ganache and Raspberry Rapture and Chocolate Balloon Cups with Oven-Roasted Pears. Desaulniers also lets us in on some old family recipes; Hessie Rae's Chocolate Pecan Tart Cookies and Mrs. D's Chocolate Chip Cookies make you wonder what other undivulged secrets he's been saving.

As Desaulniers writes in his introduction, "Rather than showcasing towering confections like those in Death by Chocolate and Desserts To Die For, this is a collection of chocolate cookies, bars, brownies, nougat, brittle, praline, ice-cream sandwiches, candies, and biscuits that you can hold in your hand and pop in your mouth. O.K., so I went overboard and pulled out the plate in the chapter 'More Than a Mouthful.' But as Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing is wonderful.'"

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