What's new with Carole:

My next book is Intensely Chocolate: 100 Tantalizing Recipes for the Ultimate in Chocolate Flavor. It is scheduled for publication by John Wiley & Sons on October 11, 2010. The word intensely is the best word to use in the title to describe this book because the 100 recipes are for very serious chocolate lovers. Most of the recipes are made with high cacao content dark chocolate. The book will also have 40 sumptuously enticing photos. In addition to regular book sellers, Intensely Chocolate will also be sold through the following book clubs: The Good Cook, Rhapsody, The Literary Guild, and HomeStyle. Below is the cover.

You can pre-order Intensely Chocolate at:

Bite-Size Desserts: Creating Mini Sweet Treats, From Cupcakes and Cobblers to Custards and Cookies is a must have for all desserts makers.




This is my very latest published book, Bite-Size Desserts: Creating Mini Sweet Treats, From Cupcakes and Cobblers to Custards and Cookies (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009). Although the recipes in this book are for small portions they are power packed with great flavors and there is a great deal of variety. The book itself has a wimiscal layout that makes it a lot of fun. And there are 40 spectacular photographs. See some of what you can make and eat in the slide show below.



Bite-Size Desserts can be ordered at:

Here are some Bite-Size Desserts. Just help yourself.

              Bite-Size Desserts HIGHLIGHTS:
  • 87 easy and quick to prepare mini desserts
  • a large variety of different types of desserts
  • 22 mini chocolate dessert recipes
  • detailed instructions written for home cooks
  • desserts for those desiring portion control

Carole's on Oprah--Oprah.com that is :).

See my Pecan-Ginger Biscotti recipe from my new cookbook, Bite-Size Desserts, on Oprah's Food Recipes page. Pecan-Ginger Biscotti are not overly sweet and the ginger and pecan are a perfect favor combination. They are very easy to make. But I have to warn you, they go fast so be prepared to make a second batch. Enjoy!

Here is what Restaurant Hospitality (June 2009) says about Bite-Size Desserts: “You probably know how well trios or quartets or one-bite samplers or other shooter-equivalent desserts sell today. So let's get going on creating some great new ones for your menu. Bloom's book contains 87 recipes for these pint-sized pleasures, covering the entire gamut of dessert options. Blessedly, you won't need a whiz-bang pastry chef on staff to reproduce most of them. Yet Bloom's recipes yield finished products that look and taste as though you did. Even the mini-cookie recipes are knockouts.”

Articles and soundBites by Carole:

Check out my article, Making Perfect Pies, on Epicurious.com in the Articles & Guides, how to cook, cooking primers, Pie primer area. Click HERE to go straight to the article.

Also, have a look at four mini articles that I wrote: Eat Small: Small Desserts, that is, Picnic Desserts: Bite-sized is the way to go, Making ganache - It's not difficult and Cupcakes for all - A sweets expert on little cakes, on Culinate.com in the Dinner Guest Blog area. And all articles have recipes including, Brown Sugar and Cornmeal Bundt Cakes with Honey Whipped Cream, Venetian Almond Tartlets, Dark Chocolate Cupcakes and White Chocolate Cupcakes with White Chocolate Frosting. Click HERE or click once on my name on the Dinner Guest Blog page. Feel free to ask questions and/or leave a comment.

In addition, listen to one or more of my soundBites on chocolate. Just go to A MILLION COOKS home page, click on Visit the Experts, select my name in the Find an Expert by Name, and click on any of the soundBites to play in the center of the page. There are over 30 short audio soundBites by me on chocolate to listen to. Enjoy.