title: Dessert Recipes for Chocolate Lovers: The most decadent recipes for cakes, pies, brownies, cookies, fudge, ice-cream & more!
author: Leslie Taylor
description: Leslie Taylor was born into a family that loves to cook and loves desserts! His sister is Lisa Joy Taylor, affectionately known as the Dessert Queen and the author of Americas Most Delicious Dessert Recipes, State by State. And while his mother was not an author or a professional chef, she was well known throughout her community for exceptional desserts. Not suprisiingly both Leslie and Lisa were inspired greatly by their mom and love of good food! Leslies background in the culinary arts has been both formal  taking classes and trainings as well as informal  the experience and expertise one can only gain from making thousands upon thousands of desserts! Leslie lives in California with his wife, two daughters and cat Mirabell.
zlib_text: CONTENTS
  The Basics
  Cream Puffs
  Éclairs
  Profiteroles
  Party Puffs
  Troubleshooting Guide
  Pâte à Choux Templates
  Metric Equivalents
  Acknowledgments
  
  Take A Bite!
  Cream puffs, éclairs, and profiteroles—one is light and fluffy, another one is
  decadent and custardy, and one is cool and melty. All are crispy, messy, and
  delicious.
  Éclairs have always been my favorite dessert, though they were a rare treat
  as I was growing up. Shortly after we got married, my husband asked me
  what cake Fd like to have for my birthday party, and I told him Fd rather
  have chocolate éclairs. Buying éclairs for my large extended family wasn’t
  in our budget, so he decided to make them. I have to admit, I doubted he
  could pull it off—I didn’t know anyone who had made éclairs at home and
  assumed they would be difficult. Fortunately, my husband is pretty fearless,
  even in the kitchen, and it turns out that éclair shells are actually easy to
  make. My birthday éclairs turned out perfectly, and we’ve been baking
  éclairs 