Lora Brody

Recipes tried: Silky soy chocolate pudding p69. Coke cake 90. To try: chocolate-covered almond butter crunch 34; icy mexican chocolate smoothie 52; chocolate chip pancakes with chocolate butter 52; chocolate-filled monkey bread 57; mint Girl Scout cookie 78-79; cream-filled chocolate cupcakes 80; milk chocolate cheesecake cups with kahlua 106; black satin fudge sauce 141.

Colorful & well photographed, this book gives the reader not only excellent instructions for special preparations & ingredients, but a wonderful selection of recipes.

Recipes include: layer sponge cake, ice cream, creme brulee, tarts, cookies, scones & truffles...a little bit of everything.

There was only one recipe that I was interested in making, but the rest are a chocolate lovers sweetest dream.

Do NOT like this format. I thought I would, but it's actually annoying to see a recipe tweaked across 3-5 pages for 17 machines. The format could easily be improved by sectioning the book based on machine and then giving the recipes.

Pft. Why bother with a bread machine if you are only going to use the dough cycle? Hate this cookbook for that reason. Every recipe in here uses the dough cycle and then you bake the bread in an oven. Why not learn to knead bread by hand, use a hand-crank dough maker, or dough hook on a stand mixer?