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Chocolate
Cake
150 Recipes From Simple to Sublime
By
Michele Urvater (Broadway)
Perhaps the only thing better than a thick slice of
chocolate cake is the thick book Chocolate Cake by Michele Urvater. The 400-page treat is arguably
as delicious as the author's checkerboard cake with
wicked chocolate frosting, marzipan lover's dream
cake or spicy chocolate pound cake with brandy glaze.
Urvater is a former restaurant chef, author of the
best-selling "Monday-to-Friday" cookbook
series, and hosts the TV Food Network program of the
same name. In this book she thoroughly shows us what
she learned a few years ago when she began another
career as a pastry chef with a diploma from the prestigious
French Culinary Institute. Get ready to be put through
the paces, as Urvater was. This could have easily
been called The Chocolate Cake Bible or The Chocolate
Cake Textbook. These are not easy or quick recipes,
but they are classics (as well as sophisticated twists)
done right. Following is one of the book's briefest
choices.
RECIPE:
Chocolate
Peanut Torte
(Updated: 11/06/08 SB)
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