Carole Bloom is a European-trained pastry chef and confectioner, author of nine cookbooks, food writer, cooking instructor, media chef, and spokesperson. In addition, she has worked in world-class hotels and restaurants in Europe and the United States, and has been a consultant for both new and established culinary enterprises.
Carole’s most recent cookbook is Bite-Size Desserts which will be published in April 2009. Carole's other books include The Essential Baker: The Comprehensive Guide to Baking with Chocolate, Fruit, Nuts, Spices, and other Ingredients (Wiley), the revised and updated Truffles, Candies, and Confections: Recipes and Techniques for Candymaking (Ten Speed Press); Chocolate Lover’s Cookbook For Dummies (Wiley); Cookies For Dummies (Wiley); All About Chocolate: The Ultimate Resource for the World’s Favorite Food (Macmillan/IDG), winner of Best Chocolate Book 1999 at Eurochocolate; The International Dictionary of Desserts, Pastries, and Confections (Morrow); Sugar and Spice (HP Books); and The Candy Cookbook (Chronicle Books).She also contributed to the Candy chapter for the revised edition of the American culinary classic Joy of Cooking (Scribner). She is currently working on her next book, Intensely Chocolate, to be published in 2011. Carole’s food articles appear regularly in national magazines and online, including Bon Appétit, Fine Cooking, Food & Wine, Gourmet, Eating Well, Cooking Light, Sam's Club Source, Culinate.com, Epicurious.com, and A Million Cooks (at amillioncooks.com).
Carole is often on television for cooking demonstrations and interviews, with appearances on the Today Show, ABC World News This Morning, CNN, Better Homes and Gardens Television, and Seasonings on PBS. Carole was the Chairperson for the 24th annual conference of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, held in San Diego, CA in April 2002. She speaks frequently at national and international conferences and has made many appearances at the Chef’s Holidays in Yosemite, California. She has been the national spokesperson for the American Boxed Chocolate Manufacturers Group and the Chocolate Manufacturers Association. She has also been a celebrity judge and spokesperson for Sam's Club (Wal-Mart Stores). In addition, Carole served as an expert witness in a major copyright lawsuit case regarding chocolate and cookies.
Carole is a Certified Culinary Professional (CCP) by the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP), is a professional member of IACP and a founding member and Past-President of Les Dames d’Escoffier, San Diego Chapter, an international organization of women of achievement in the culinary industry. She is also a founding member of the San Diego area Baker's Dozen. Carole holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley.