The Ultimate Candy Book: More than 700 Quick and Easy, Soft and Chewy, Hard and Crunchy Sweets and Treats

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 256 pages
• Published by: William Morrow Cookbooks October 3, 2000
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0688175104
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0688175108
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 15.2 ounces

From Library Journal
Weinstein's book, in the same style as his Ultimate Ice Cream Book, offers 100 or so basic recipes for delectable candies plus variations on the themeDmany recipes, in fact, include close to a dozen versions in all. The candies are organized into the three general categories of the subtitle and range from Fudge-in-a-Minute to Turkish Taffy (in grape, peach, and even fig flavors) to Hazelnut Brittle. There's even a recipe for homemade chewing gum. With its abundance of recipes, this is a good companion to Carole Bloom's several less-ambitious candy-making titles (e.g., Truffles, Candies, & Confections, Crossing Pr., 1996).
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From Booklist
If desserts aren't sweet enough or not ready quickly enough, candy provides instant gratification. Bruce Weinstein's The Ultimate Candy Book rushes to the rescue with recipes for all sorts of favorite homemade candies as well as directions for reproducing favorite commercial candies in the home kitchen. Weinstein makes plain the simple method of combining pecans, caramel, and chocolate into homemade turtles. His chocolate matzo makes the deprivations of the Passover season much more bearable. Some unexpected treats appear here, such as coconut snowballs: crisp coconut coating the outside of balls of contrastingly moist, chewy coconut. What's unusual is that they're served straight from the deep freeze. Brad Hooper
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Reader Reviews
Not only are there traditional homemade favorites here like divinity, but you can reproduce commercial treats like caramel turtles and chocolate cherries. Only much better. Since a lot of commercial candy tastes full of additives, chemicals and too much high-fructose corn syrup, it's great to have recipes to make your own. Only problem is that these are TOO good. So make them as gifts and wrap them up before too much damage can be done. Or wear a hockey mask a la Hannibal Lecter. This book is evil. These are just too good. You've been warned. Comment | | (Report this)