This is a gorgeous chocolate book! The intro section has lots of chocolate specific info and how tos. There are 60 recipes in 9 chapters, so none of the chapters are very long: Sweet Treats, Cookies, Brownies and Bars, Snacking Cakes, Celebration Cakes, Pies and Tarts, Morning Treats, Fried and Chilled, and Bakery Favorites.
Every recipe has a mouth-watering color photo. Some of the recipes have more unique ingredients alongside the chocolate: things like rye flour, miso, tahini, black sesame. Others just sound incredibly delicious, or amp up a familiar recipe either by making a combo (Pumpkin Chocolate Babka), or adding chocolate to a beloved classic (Chocolate Frangipane Croissants).
It's been a while since I saw a chocolate cookbook I felt had unique ideas, so I'm very excited for this.

Michele Song created a beautiful book for you or the chocolate lover in your life.. I loved that the book started with a love letter to Chocolate. It then went on to school the reader on how to treat chocolate, pantry ingredients, different equipment needed and a lot more great information. Then the recipes started, the delicious photos popped up throughout and my mouth was watering.
I look forward to first making the Very Best Chocolate Chunk Cookies this weekend and then the ultimate Millionaire Pretzel Bars. I also know of a few people who will love this book as much as I do.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the arc.

This is a very dangerous book to flip through before lunch, LOL! Now I want some chocolate baked goodness!!

The cookbook is obviously a labor of love by someone who loves chocolate. :D (I imagine we'd get along great, haha.) I love that it not only includes photograph(s) for every. single. recipe (a rarity in cookbook-land, it seems like), but also some unique ingredients and flavor combinations. (I'm looking at you, pistachios, miso, matcha, buckwheat, and buttermilk. And no, those aren't all in one recipe, but spread across several!)

I also learned a few new things, such as how/why to "bloom" cocoa (to bring out flavors) and caramelize white chocolate! (I think caramelizing white chocolate would indeed make me like it better, haha.)

I'm especially excited to try the crispy chocolate buttermilk waffles and the chocolate stout rye Bundt. (Insert token reference to "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" here.)

A fantastic and inspiring collection of recipes, photos, tips, and tricks that will be an invaluable resource to any baker, from amateur to pro.

I received an eARC of the book from the publisher via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

This book is a chocolate lovers paradise. Or diabetes in a book, but still. I live all the different types of recipes and the spins that they put on your every day recipes to change them up. I canny wait to get my hands on the physical copy

Michele Song's love letter to chocolate serves as the perfect tone setter for the reader. As someone who also has chocolate as their love language, this reels me right in. Sometimes chocolate can feel like an overwhelming tool in baking and Song does a thorough job in explaining different usages and aspects of varying chocolate itself. It's like a pre-education element so that the baker feels more prepared and it's told in an accessible, welcoming fashion. 'Chocolate Lover' is filled with mouthwatering recipes with a perfect blend of classics and new twists on iconic favorites told through Song's encouraging voice. The visuals are thoroughly stunning as well as the layout being simple and appealing.

Chocolate Lover is exactly what you’d expect. So many simple recipes that can be whipped up quickly and with ease to satisfy that never escapable craving.

For those with allergies to eggs, this book includes many recipes that are eggless, which I appreciate for myself! Finally!

I received this DRC from NetGalley.

I am a fan of dark chocolate, and this book contains a wide variety of recipes with good photos of the finished items that look delicious. Also, I didn't know snack cakes were a thing people made, so that's fun. The book starts with a thorough overview of the different types of chocolate, cocoa powder, various other ingredients, and other helpful tips, which I found interesting. I haven't actually made any of the recipes, but I'm curious about the Espresso Chocolate Rye Sables and the Miso Peanut Butter Blondies.

Such a beautiful baking book for chocolate lovers everywhere. This was filled with tips and tricks and a great variety of recipes to add to your repertoire. I really loved the variations that came with certain treats and the pictures alongside each desert were stunning. Thank you to NetGalley for this advanced copy!

The pictures in this book are gorgeous and I am now craving so many different things. I want to try to the chocolate basque cheesecake and the chocolate malt cream pie the most. The short blurbs with the recipes are good storytelling, especially because they often note the branded product that inspired the recipe, like how the author talks about jello pudding cups in relation to the chocolate malt cream pie or ghirardelli brownies and their own brownie recipe recreating them. I like that there are metric measurements throughout in addition to the typical cup measurements. It makes it more likely that I'll actually bake if there's metric measurements haha.

A wonderful collection of delicious sounding (and looking) recipes for all chocolate lovers. The recipes are well organized, easy to follow and the pictures are done nicely so you can see how the food should look. I am definitely going to try some of these recipes out soon! I give this book 5 stars out of 5!
Thank you to the publisher and to NetGalley for this digital ARC in exchange for my honest review. The book will be published 9/17/2024.

So many delicious looking recipes! I love that there’s pictures of pretty much all of them so I know what they look like and there’s at least one that I 100% know I’m gonna make (the peanut butter chocolate chip pie, a variation on one of my go-to bakes) and one that I would LOVE to attempt (the peanut butter chocolate buns).

Thanks to NetGalley and Chronicle Books for the digital ARC in exchange for my review.

A chocolate manual
Ms. Song instructs on type, tools and technique in addition to the recipes. Clear detailed instructions with drool worthy illustrations make this cook book a winner.
I requested and received a NetGalley ARC gratis and offer my opinion in the same.

This was pretty much the most mouthwatering cookbook. The author put a lot of effort in breaking down how versatile chocolate is on its own and in use to enhance other flavors. She also made it really digestible for novice bakers with helpful tips and lists. I look forward to slowly baking my way through the entire cookbook, which is so rare.

Chocolate Lover is a wonderful resources for chocolate lovers. It is extremely detailed and comprehensive, and yet accessible and rich.
The organisation of list of ingredients on the left and the recipes and tips on the right is handy.
There are amazing photos that accompany the recipes - I did not find all of them perfect yet most of them were great. Yet the content is 100%.

The title is pretty self-explanatory for the audience this cookbook is appealing to, and the pictures and recipes live up to it! Definitely a book for anyone who wants double-chocolate anything in their desserts (and breakfast too)! Every recipe includes chocolate in some form, from white to dark chocolate, cocoa powder, and cacao nibs, and uses it in a variety of desserts, from ganache, whipped cream, bread, glaze, cake, and everything in between. It starts with background info of the different types of chocolates and their differences, the best ways to melt chocolate and some basic techniques that will be repeated in the recipes, and recurring ingredients and suggestions on brands to buy, as well as equipment.

The recipes are organized from beginner-friendly to advanced/time-consuming, and include mostly European/American based desserts with some Asian influences in a few. The recipes are mostly easy to understand, some just one page long and others four, though most of them are written with the expectation you have a stand mixer, so might not be the best if you’re relatively new to baking. Some are a bit unclear, like ice water (is it water as cold as ice or water with ice in it, because that would change how you do things). I feel like especially around the end, when they’re describing how to braid bread, it would have benefitted from a few more pictures to explain more clearly.

Thank you Chronicle Books and NetGalley for the advanced electronic review copy of this wonderful book. This drool-worthy volume is truly a chocoholic’s delight! There is a lot of information in the beginning of the book about different types of chocolate, cocoa, sugar, and other ingredients and tools necessary to create chocolate masterpieces that follow. The rest of the book is broken down by types of treats (cookies, cakes, bars, etc) and each is accompanied my a mouthwatering photo. This book is a must have for any chocolate lover!

Just the title and the cover photo makes me salivate. I am a huge chocolate lover who tends to buy it in candy bar form or from a bakery. I am not an experienced baker by any means but this book has really helped me learn how to make delectable chocolate treats! In the first part of the book, the author gives great explanations about the types of chocolate (I learned a lot) as well as what to stock in your pantry, equipment, tools and there is a blurb explaining all the ingredients. Throughout are great recipes and photos. I did not realized King Arthur made a Malted Milk powder so I bought it and made the Salty Malty blondies - if you crave malted milk shakes like I do, this is the recipe for you! She also shares unique techniques on how create a shiny top on brownies (the key is how to dissolve the sugar). There are easy snack cakes, cookies and the recipe I want to try next is the Orange and Olive Oil Chocolate Cake! The explanations are so thorough it helped me through the baking process and gave me confidence. Recommended for all the chocolate lovers out there (would be a great gift too!)

Thank you to Netgalley and Chronicle Books for an ARC and I voluntarily left this review.

I liked the introduction to this book and the recipes all had pictures (a must for any cookbook). The recipes look delicious and I cannot wait to try a few in the next few weeks. The instructions were all clear and easy to read. I will definitely be purchasing this when it comes out.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an Advanced Reader’s Copy in exchange for an honest review.

This book is the perfect love letter to chocolate.

As someone who loves chocolate, loves baking, and lovessss food styling and food photography, THIS BOOK was such a joy to read and experience.

The recipes are easy to follow, the photos are absolutely STUNNING and you can really tell how much the author loves chocolate through this book.

Recipes are renditions of classic all-time faves with some cool new combinations that'll blow you away.

This book is definitely one worth picking up, it'll be such a joy to flip through.

Thank you to Chronicle Books, Michele Song and NetGalley for giving me an Advanced Reader Copy of this wonderful cookbook.

I love chocolate, and I can't wait to try these delicious-looking recipes in this book! The pictures are gorgeous, and my family will be glad to taste-test these chocolate recipes!

I appreciate the publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to read this book in exchange for an honest review.