This delightful cookbook instructs the reader on how to make many delicious chocolate treats - from cakes to candies to nougat and milkshakes.

With over 150 recipes inside for chocolate desserts, cakes and candy this text is a spectacular tour of deliciousness. Written in a clear and insightful fashion, this book lays out with precision many great recipes for scrumptious sweets that will have your mouth watering even before they're done.

A simple, straightforward presentation is what author and professional London-based chocolatier Peter Young aspired to when writing this text. After an introduction of chocolate, its history and its significance through the centuries, we immediately start with the essential recipes which compose this no-nonsense cookbook. Well-known, perennial favourites and fancier desserts and candies congregate marvellously over a total of more than 150 great recipes.

Author's comment: "My philosophy when putting together this work was simple: less is more. By including simply the recipes with clear, concise instructions, the reader can easily find, digest and follow the recipes written. Huge distracting illustrations, fancy stylistic turns, and needless elaborations are excluded from this book, which tells the reader - fair and plain - how to make delicious chocolate treats that I know people love to eat."

If a supreme understanding of cooking yummy chocolate is what you seek, then How to Make Chocolate Candies, Desserts and Cakes is the book for you.