Sugar Baby: Confections, Candies, Cakes, & Other Delicious Recipes for Cooking with Sugar

Cookbooks with recipes for baking with sugar (in the oven), continue to top the bestseller lists. And yet, no one has set out to do a cookbook with recipes on cooking with sugar (on the stovetop)--until now. In __Sugar Baby__, Gesine Bullock-Prado offers totally unintimidating step-by-step advice; the simplest instructions; recipes for candy, confections, and treats that integrate stovetop work into finished desserts; and a hilarious voice. Organized by temperature and chemical stages, here are more than 100 recipes for lollipops, caramel, rock candy, chocolate mousse, macarons, marshmallows, pudding pops, cakes, and much more. __Sugar Baby__ will satisfy even the most demanding sweet tooth.Praise for __Sugar Baby__:"Got a sweet tooth? Bakery owner Gesine Bullock-Prado's new cookbook, __Sugar Baby__, will school you in everything from rock candy to puff pastries. And Bullock-Prado --who has spent a lot of time in the kitchen with her actress sister, Sandra-- makes it look easy."-__Ladies Home Journal__ “Truly, at her core, she like Dorie Greenspan or Rose Levy Beranbaum, is a dessert evangelist.” —Examiner.com

Cookbooks with recipes for baking with sugar (in the oven), continue to top the bestseller lists. And yet, no one has set out to do a cookbook with recipes on cooking with sugar (on the stovetop)—until now. In Sugar Baby, Gesine Bullock-Prado offers totally unintimidating step-by-step advice; the simplest instructions; recipes for candy, confections, and treats that integrate stovetop work into finished desserts; and a hilarious voice. Organized by temperature and chemical stages, here are more than 100 recipes for lollipops, caramel, rock candy, chocolate mousse, macarons, marshmallows, pudding pops, cakes, and much more. Sugar Baby will satisfy even the most demanding sweet tooth.

Praise for Sugar Baby:

"Got a sweet tooth? Bakery owner Gesine Bullock-Prado's new cookbook, Sugar Baby, will school you in everything from rock candy to puff pastries. And Bullock-Prado —who has spent a lot of time in the kitchen with her actress sister, Sandra— makes it look easy."
-Ladies Home Journal

“Truly, at her core, she like Dorie Greenspan or Rose Levy Beranbaum, is a dessert evangelist.” —Examiner.com

Cookbooks with recipes for baking with sugar (in the oven), continue to top the bestseller lists. And yet, no one has set out to do a cookbook with recipes on cooking with sugar (on the stovetop)--until now. In Sugar Baby , Gesine Bullock-Prado offers totally unintimidating step-by-step advice; the simplest instructions; recipes for candy, confections, and treats that integrate stovetop work into finished desserts; and a hilarious voice. Organized by temperature and chemical stages, here are more than 100 recipes for lollipops, caramel, rock candy, chocolate mousse, macarons, marshmallows, pudding pops, cakes, and much more. Sugar Baby will satisfy even the most demanding sweet tooth. Praise for Sugar Baby : "Got a sweet tooth? Bakery owner Gesine Bullock-Prado's new cookbook, Sugar Baby , will school you in everything from rock candy to puff pastries. And Bullock-Prado --who has spent a lot of time in the kitchen with her actress sister, Sandra-- makes it look easy." - Ladies Home Journal “Truly, at her core, she like Dorie Greenspan or Rose Levy Beranbaum, is a dessert evangelist.” —Examiner.com "Cookbooks with recipes for baking with sugar (in the oven) continue to top bestselling list. And yet, no one has set out to write a book on cooking with sugar (on the stovetop)--until now. In 'Sugar Baby', confectioner extraordinaire Gesine Bullock-Prado offers step-by-step advice; the simplest instructions; a hilarious voice; and delicious recipes that require no more than sugar, water, and a pot (preferably with a heavy bottom). Then, she builds on this stovetop sugar work to present recipes for candy, confections, and treats that will expand your sweets repertoire a thousandfold"--Page 2 of cover Simple dissolve to thread stage Soft-ball stage Firm-ball stage Hard-ball stage Soft-crack stage Hard-crack stage Put it all together.