Here are the top three chocolate cookbook reviews to make the task of picking one a little simpler. They are all great chocolate cookbooks and are guaranteed to make your mouth water.

1. Chocolates and Confections at Home with the Culinary Institute of America – Peter Greweling

Author Peter Greweling is a professor of baking and pastry arts at the CIA, as well as a Certified Master Baker and Certified Hospitality Educator. This chocolate book is abundantly illustrated with more than 150 full-color photos that display key techniques as well as completed confections. This chocolate book strikes a perfect balance between cookbook and textbook. The recipes are so well explained and simplified that a beginner with chocolate will excel in candy making with this amazing book. The book covers chocolates, jellies, truffles, and taffies, fudge and pralines, marshmallows, toffees, nuts, and much more.

2. Luscious Chocolate Desserts – Lori Longbotham

This fantastic cookbook offers 70 of the finest recipes for alluring cakes, splendid tarts and pies, creamy puddings and souffles, plus mouth watering cookies, ice cream, and candy—all with sufficient chocolate to gratify even the deepest craving. What you will really like about this book is all the recipes look like something you could walk into the kitchen and make without a lot of hardship. You don't have to look all over for exotic ingredients; you don't need a lot of expertise. You just follow the very direct instructions, and you your chocolate treats come out as a good as a bakery’s. This cookbook is perfect for any chocolate lover, those who love to indulge in it as well as those who like to read about it.

3. Absolutely Chocolate: Irresistible Excuses to Indulge – Fine Cooking Magazine

With 55 full-color photographs accompanied with 125 sensational recipes this book is truly a wonderful buy. The chocolate recipes range from layer cakes, tarts, and pies to muffins, cookies, and brownies to candies, sauces, and hot cocoa. You will learn things like which dessert tastes better with chocolate and which with cocoa powder, the qualities of premium-quality bittersweet versus a semisweet. Each recipe highlights must-know tips on picking and purchasing just the precise chocolate; step-by-step, instructions; and trustworthy advice from America's most esteemed experts. In other words, Absolutely Chocolate is absolutely magnificent.

The top three chocolate cookbooks are all fabulous and there is really no way to decide which one is better than the other. They are all under $25 and available online on amazon.com. Even if you don’t end up using them to bake, they would still make great coffee table books. 

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