Chocolate: Basic Baking

Here are dozens of delectable recipes for cooking with one of the world's very favorite sweets--chocolate. Break your diet with Devil's Food Cake. Tempt your taste buds with Double Chocolate Chunk Cookies or Chocolate Shortbread. Brighten someone's day with a Chocolate Cheesecake or a Surprise Souffle hot from the oven. Full-color photos.

Linda Collister is the author of two hugely popular books on chocolate - Chocolate Temptations and Heavenly Chocolate - as well as three landmark titles on baking : Bread : from Sourdough to Rye. The Baking Book, and The Bread Book. All were bestsellers around the world and the latter was runner-up for the Andre Simon Award. Her books have been translated into half-a-dozen languages and continue to be successful on both sides of the Atlantic. She spends her winters in London, where her children have become connoisseurs of the best chocolate Europe can produce, and her summers in Maine, where their investigations continue.