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Best books to learn Chocolate & candy making, in order

Confectionery is precision work, so the reading front-loads the fundamentals, sugar stages and, above all, tempering chocolate, the make-or-break skill everything depends on. Then it moves to molding, dipping, and truffles, and finally to the showpiece confections. This is a craft where an unglamorous fundamental, controlling temperature, has to be mastered before any of the pretty results are even possible.

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