Rose Levy Beranbaum

Chocolate Baking Essentials

Rose Levy Beranbaum
  • In-depth Instruction; over 122 mins
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Meet award-winning cookbook author Rose Levy Beranbaum and start with an overview of chocolate types, exploring cacao percentages and fundamental techniques, including shaving and melting chocolate.
You'll learn how unsweetened chocolate can provide the perfect balance to your recipes, whether it's taming the sweetness of angel food cake or enhancing chocolate flavor of a ganache.
Rose shows you why cocoa powder is essential for baking chocolate desserts and you'll make an impressive chocolate pecan tart.
With Rose's guidance, you'll use dark chocolate to bake a decadent chocolate truffle tort in a water bath.
Learn to turn bread into cake when you make Rose's impressive rose-shaped bread puddings with milk chocolate.
Use white chocolate for a creamy cheesecake and smooth buttercream. Rose shows you how!
Finally, you'll play with chocolate to create a homemade chocolate fondant and decorative accents, including curls, shavings and leaves.
 
 
7 Lessons
2  hrs 2  mins

Description

Learn how to work with everyone’s favorite sweet treat: chocolate! Three-time James Beard Award winner Rose Levy Beranbaum begins by breaking down the types of baking chocolate available and what those cacao percentages really mean. Then, discover why unsweetened chocolate can sometimes provide the best balance for your treats and incorporate cocoa powder into a show-stopping chocolate pecan tart. Are you a dark chocolate lover? Up next, create a tempting dark chocolate truffle torte, and find out how to bake this crowd-pleaser in a water bath for restaurant-worthy results. Plus, whip up milk chocolate bread pudding and make an incredibly luscious white chocolate cheesecake. Finish your class with homemade chocolate fondant and impressive decorative accents for sweets that are as beautiful as they are delicious.

Rose Levy Beranbaum

Rose Levy Beranbaum is a three-time James Beard Award winner and author of many cookbooks, including Rose's Christmas Cookies, The Pie and Pastry Bible and The Baking Bible. She also contributes to The Washington Post and Fine Cooking, and has appeared on the Today show, the Martha Stewart Show and The Food Network, to name a few.

Rose Levy Beranbaum

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