Make Your Own Desserts at Home

The Little Book of Chocolate: Desserts

The Little Book of Chocolate: Desserts will teach you the techniques needed to make your own chocolates at home. From learning where chocolate comes from to how it is processed, as well as featuring over 15 chocolate dessert recipes such as Chocolate Mousse, Milk Chocolate Pecan Pie, Opera Cake and Macaron Dessert, you will master key skills to help you become a better at working with chocolate. This is a bite-sized masterclass in chocolate and every chocolate lover&rsquo;s dream.

Melanie Dupuis trained as a pastry chef and caterer in France and worked in the country&#39;s best hotels and restaurants (Helene Darroze, Benoit Castel, Nomad Food &amp; Design) before embarking on a second career as a food writer. Her first book, Patisserie, was published in 2014 and has been an international success. 
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Make Your Own Chocolates at Home

The Little Book of Chocolate: Sweet Treats

The Little Book of Chocolate: Sweet Treats will teach you the techniques needed to make your own chocolates at home. From tempering to moulding and glazing to making ganache, and featuring over 15 chocolate recipes such as Honey Ganache Dipped Chocolates, Moulded Gianduja Chocolates, Truffles, Chocolate Slabs and even a Chocolate Egg, you will perfect your chocolate skills with these fun, original treats to enjoy yourself or share with loved ones. This is a bitesized masterclass in chocolate and every chocolate lover&rsquo;s dream.

Make Your Chocolate Dreams Become a Reality

The Ultimate Book of Chocolate

In&#160;The Ultimate Book of Chocolate&#160;trained pastry chef Melanie Dupuis will teach you how to make your chocolate dreams become a reality. Learn how to temper, mould and decorate like a pro with the complete guide to everything chocolate. 
 
Melanie guides the reader with step-by-step pictures and detailed instructions on all the essential techniques, from tempering to making ganache, chocolate mousse, creme anglaise, biscuit bases, meringue and more. The main recipes include every chocolate dessert you could ever imagine, from caramel bonbons and millionaire&rsquo;s shortbread to Easter eggs, truffles, macarons, cakes, Swiss rolls, eclairs and more. 
 
This is a masterclass in making chocolate desserts from an expert pastry chef, and is truly a chocoaholic&rsquo;s dream book!

Melanie Dupuis trained as a pastry chef and caterer in France and worked in the country&#39;s best hotels and restaurants (Helene Darroze, Benoit Castel, Nomad Food &amp; Design) before embarking on a second career as a food writer. Her first book, Patisserie, was published in 2014 and has been an international success.

Melanie Dupuis

Make Your Own Baked Goods at Home

The Little Book of Chocolate: Cakes and Pastries will teach you the techniques needed to make your own chocolate treats at home. 
 
 From learning where chocolate comes from to how it is processed, as well as featuring over 15 chocolate cake&#160;and pastry&#160;recipes such as Chocolate Chip Cookies, Millionaire&rsquo;s Shortbread, Paris-Brest Cake, Millefeuilles and Pain au Chocolat, you will master key skills to help you become a better at working with chocolate. 
 
 This is a bite-sized masterclass in chocolate and every chocolate lover&rsquo;s dream.

Melanie Dupuis

Books by Melanie Dupuis

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