Chocolate is forever by Maida Heatter is an awesome book filled with delicious Chocolate recipes! The book starts with a section of tips to read before you bake and then goes into a general list of ingredients and a little information about each ingredient. She walks you through equipment needed, technique, timing and storage. Then begins the Fun! You will start with simple cakes! Each recipe is laid out in an easy to follow way. You are told step for step what is needed and how to do it. The book has sections for special occasion cakes, cookies and bars, pastries, pies, pudding and more! I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes to bake and loves chocolate!

Chocolate is forever is a great cookbook full of information, almost perfect for beginners, but it is lacking of pictures which would be helpful when one is just starting out. The illustrations are pretty but I think it would reach out more if there was actual pictures of some of the steps and the final result. There were some pretty good recipes and I liked that there was a little fact attached to each of them. Good book overall. Thank you NetGalley for the free ebook.

Maida Heatter's recipes are among the best I have ever read. Unfailingly delicious, her instructions are clear and easy to understand. They are also full of the kind of advice and tips that make you feel as if she was in the kitchen with you.

It's great that her recipes are being republished for a new generation of cooks.

This volume covers chocolate with recipes for everything from basic chocolate cakes and cookies to simple candy and drinks.

You had me at chocolate! While I am not sure how often I'd actually use this cookbook, all of the recipes sound mouthwatering delicious. I think I may try a few of the more simple recipes and see how things go. The tips, equipment details, and tidbits in the front of the book were quite helpful and I think this would be a nice cookbook for someone who makes these types of desserts often.

I love chocolate, who doesn't? I love recipes and collecting these kinds of books, I can't wait to make some recipes that caught my attention.

Maida Heatter, aka "The Queen of Desserts" died last year and during the 70s and 80s, she published several titles that are now considered classics. Her precise instructions taught a generation of bakers and eased their fears about entering the kitchen. The recipes in this book have been assembled from Maida Heatter’s previously published books, including Happiness Is Baking, Maida Heatter's Cakes, Maida Heatter's Cookies, Maida Heatter's Book of Great Chocolate Desserts, Maida Heatter's Book of Great Desserts, Maida Heatter's New Book of Great Desserts.

Last year, a compilation of her recipes appeared in Happiness Is Baking. This book follows the same format and is again illustrated by Alice Oche's colorful drawings. A preface by David Lebovitz was not available in the preview galley. Maida Heatter's notes on equipment, ingredients and how-to's are included in the opening chapter..

Recipe sections include Simple Cakes, Special Occasion Cakes, Cookies & Bars, Pastries, Pies, Puddings & More and Candy, Fudge and Chocolate Drinks. I have made many of these recipes and they include some of my all-time favorites, such as 86-Proof Chocolate Cake, St. Louis Chocolate Layer Cake, Country Fair Chocolate Cake, Frozen Chocolate Mousse and Rocky Roads. But there are also a number that I haven't tried, chief among them are the September 7th Cake, Robert Redford Cake, Queen Mother's Cake, Hungarian Seven Layer Cake, Mocha Velvet, Chocolate Bread and a host of others. Just seeing the list of contents reminds me, that despite blogging her recipes for the past decade, I still have tons of recipes to go!

There's plenty of variety in terms of recipes and they all have chocolate in them. There's a few recipes I would love to try.

I've always loved chocolate, but I found chocolate work to be very intimidating. The great thing about this cookbook is the tips and tricks that make you feel more confident going into the process. The tone of the author's writing is very down-to-earth while the recipes are (sorry, I have to say it this way) out of this world. I found plenty of new things I want to try and improvements on my current repertoire. If you purchase this book for yourself, you will want a physical copy rather than a digital copy to write, underline, and make other notes in.

My only caveat was a personal preference. I would have loved to see photos of each piece rather than illustrations. I'm a very visual learner so that would have been helpful to me.

The endless mouthwatering recipes had my stomach growling! I love chocolate and I love baking and I thought I have seen (or made) it all and I was wrong. There were so many variations on chocolate based desserts that there is never room to get bored. The beginning of the book had a lot of information on equipment and baking tips that I got worried there wouldn't be enough recipes in the book, but there were more than I thought possible! I would absolutely recommend this book to any chocolate lover!

There are some serious delicious recipes in this book. I love that most of them have a little story about where they came from or who they've been cooked for, a great personal touch. Cant wait to try some of these out very soon and see what kind of reactions that we get. Some great tips and tricks at the beginning for us novices to increase our skills.
Thanks for the opportunity to try something new.