Chocolates & Confections, 2e offers a complete and thorough explanation of the ingredients, theories, techniques, and formulas needed to create every kind of chocolate and confection. It is beautifully illustrated with 250 full-color photographs of ingredients, step-by-step techniques, and finished chocolates and confections. From truffles, hard candies, brittles, toffee, caramels, and taffy to butter ganache confections, fondants, fudges, gummies, candied fruit, marshmallows, divinity, nougat, marzipan, gianduja, and rochers, Chocolates & Confections 2e offers the tools and techniques for professional mastery.
Chapter 1: Confectionery Ingredients and Equipment
Chapter 2: Cacao and Chocolate
Chapter 3: Packaging and Storage
Chapter 4: Fundamental Techniques
Chapter 5: Cream Ganache
Chapter 6: Butter Ganache
Chapter 7: Noncrystalline Confections
Chapter 8: Crystalline Confections
Chapter 9: Jellies
Chapter 10: Aerated Confections
Chapter 11: Nut Centers
Chapter 12: Candy Bars
Appendix A: Sugar Densities
Appendix B: Confectionery Work Areas
