With TRUFFLES, CANDIES, AND CONFECTIONS at your side, starting a candymaking tradition will be as rewarding as it is delectable. Imagine your favorite candy—maybe it's a velvety raspberry truffle or a piece of crisp English toffee. In this completely revised and expanded edition of a culinary classic, pastry chef and teacher Carole Bloom shows intrepid bakers how to turn their visions of sugarplums into home-baked perfection. Bloom begins with an illuminating discussion of candymaking essentials, from ingredients to tools to techniques, and then shares more than 180 exquisitely detailed recipes for truffles, caramels, nut brittles, fudge, and more. If you haven't dared to try candymaking or have been frustrated by attempts in the past, get out the baking sheets and gift boxes—it's time to prepare, devour, and share batches of blissful, homemade treats like Mocha Truffles, Hazelnut Chocolate Kisses, Vanilla Cream Caramels, Butter Peanut Brittle, and Maple Pecan Fudge. Bloom's clear, concise instructions will help beginners master even the trickiest techniques, like tempering chocolate and making caramel, and her many recipe variations will inspire experienced candymakers to experiment with new flavor combinations.

Learn how to make crazy-fun cupcakes with these easy recipes for any holiday or special occasion! No one knows more about making whimsical, delicious, and eye-catching single-serving treats than Karen Tack and Alan Richardson. And the dynamic duo of cupcake creativity is back with a brand-new batch of easy, entertaining, and unique decorating ideas that will delight the whole family. What’s New, Cupcake? keeps the baking bonanza going with all-new designs, ranging from kid-pleasing robots and race cars to elegant long-stemmed roses to hilarious Chinese takeout container cupcakes that will fool your friends. Drawing inspiration from holidays, hobbies, and adorable animals, and made with only a few ingredients for easy-yet-impressive assembly, this cookbook will provide tons of fun, inspiration, and, of course, tasty desserts for cupcake fans of all ages. It’s a sweet treat almost too good to eat—but definitely too delicious to miss.

An author, baking instructor and vegan offers recipes for chocolate desserts and treats including cakes, brownies, truffles, pudding and ice creams that are dairy-free, organic and fair-trade including Brooklyn Blackout Layer Cake, a Sacher Torte and Moon Pies.

Wanted: Must love candy, cookies, frosting, and fun. No experience required! Make over any purchased sheet cake or frozen pound cake into a stunning creation that looks like it came from a fancy bakery—no special skills or equipment necessary! Even if you’ve never tried to decorate a cake before, with a good supply of candies and other store-bought treats and the detailed instructions in Extreme Cakeovers, you’ll be able to accomplish forty unique designs. You can: • Fashion robot hands from chocolate-covered doughnuts • Make Fruit Roll-ups blossom into a bouquet of red roses • Roll Rice Krispies Treats and Swedish Fish into realistic sushi • String a pretty strand of gumball pearls • Create a train smokestack from an ice cream cone and marshmallow Including tips and designs to please everyone from five to one hundred, Extreme Cakeovers is a whimsical guide to crafting cakes that will be the centerpiece of any occasion, from kids’ birthdays to Halloween, Father’s Day to Valentine’s Day, engagement parties to retirement gatherings.

TECHNICS AND TIPS FOR FUN AND FANCY CAKES BAKED WITH LOVE.

Baking pro, Dede Wilson, delivers 70 recipes for all types of doughnuts: baked, fried, yeast-risen, cake-style, filled, frosted, unfrosted. She incorporates delicious and imaginative ingredients, all presented in the fun anduser-friendly "Baker's Field Guide" format."

Geethu, a young graphic designer, has to live a hard time in her workplace due to the constant abuse from a colleague named Sam. She wonders why Sam was bad to her alone. Later, she discovers that he has a narcissistic personality. At about the same time, the paranormal influence of narcissism also becomes a topic of discussion when Geethu finds an old letter from the colonial period in a library. She is soon joined by her near and dear ones, including her childhood sweetheart, Gopu, in the fight against Sam. Mirage of Imperfections deals with both psychological (authentic) and paranormal (fantasy) dimensions of narcissism – it conveys the message that people who are really good at heart can survive narcissistic abuse and become successful in life, no matter how hard the ordeal is.

The "New York Times"-bestselling authors of "Hello, Cupcake!" and "What's New, Cupcake?" are back, applying their wacky imagination not just to cupcakes, but to cookies, pies, cakes, and much more.