How To Make Chocolates

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This is a lovely little book, very motivating for a beginner to chocolate making. It's spiral bound, with cardboard pages that sit flat on the worktop and could be sponged if necessary. The clear instructions and recipes, and the full-colour illustrations, made me just want to have a go. But beware - it should come with a health warning- I've just gone on to the Lakeland site and ordered a lot of chocolate-making equipment I didn't know I needed before I read this book!

I love making chocolates, but have never considered mine to be that good, but this little book is excellent. I love the firm cover and pages. Clear detailed instructions. Lots of useful hints and tips. Can't wait to get started on making 'proper' chocolates to wow the family.

This is a lovely book, full of lots of great tips and recipes. I do, however, have one query: paragraph 3 on page 9 says that chocolate should be allowed to melt slowly in a bowl over a pan of hot water for 3 to 4 HOURS. Surely this is wrong? In my experience, it only takes minutes to melt chocolate to the right consistency. Is this a typo or am I missing something? Could someone please confirm?

this book is quite simply incredible! The instructions are so easy to follow that having never tempered chocolate I bought this book a short while ago and I've just given 10 boxes with 5 flavours of handmade chocolates for Christmas gifts and everyone thinks I bought them! Paul A Young gives clear, concise, easy to follow instructions for several fillings while encouraging you to try your own flavours, I've already done this and it worked really well. I'm a new fan and this book is my new bible!

If you are new to making chocolates get this book. It is a great starting place and helped me create perfect chocolates the first time I tried.