title: Essence of Chocolate: Recipes for Baking and Cooking with Fine Chocolate
author: Robert Steinberg
description: Established in 1996, Scharffen Berger has become America's preeminent maker of cooking chocolate. <i>Essence of Chocolate</i>, by the firm's founders and food writer Susie Heller, offers more than 100 recipes for a broad selection of delights like Chocolate Pudding Cakes, Chocolate Marbled Gingerbread, Cocoa Caramel Panna Cotta, and Chocolate Chunk Cheesecake, as well as savory edibles made with chocolate like Tortilla Soup and Chile-Marinated Flank Steak. Unusual recipes also include the likes of Chocolate Chunk Challah and TKOs, a homemade version of Oreos that leaves those favorites on the supermarket shelf.
zlib_text: Copyright © 1996 by Helene Siegel and Karen Gillingham
  Illustrations copyright © 1996 Carolyn Vibbert
  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Celestial Arts, an imprint of the
  Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
  www.crownpublishing.com
  www.tenspeed.com
  Celestial Arts and the Celestial Arts colophon are registered trademarks of Random House,
  Inc.
  The Totally Chocolate Cookbook is produced by becker&mayer!, Ltd.
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  Siegel, Helene.
  Totally Chocolate / by Helene Siegel and Karen Gillingham
        p.    cm.
        1. Cookery (Chocolate)   2. Chocolate   I. Title
        TX767.C5S55 1996
        641.6’374—dc20                                   96-14031
  ISBN-13: 978-0-89087-805-7
  eBook ISBN: 978-0-8041-5306-5
  Illustration by Bob Greisen
  Interior design by Susan Hernday
  Interior illustrations by Carolyn Vibbert
  v3.1
  
  CONTENTS
  Cover
  Title Page
  Copyright
  Dedication
  INTRODUCTION
  BEST BREADS
  MEANINGFUL CAKES, 