SUSIE NORRIS & SUSAN HEEGER

HAND-CRAFTED CANDY BARS (Chronicle Books)

The beloved candy bars of childhood have grown up, but there is no need to go to the French Laundry to get your fix. Candy bar devotees Susie Norris and Susan Heeger show how to reinvent candy bars as they should be--thick and layered with nougat, crisp with toffee, and coated with fine chocolate. Familiar candy-store bars and other nostalgic favorites are re-created using the freshest ingredients, right down to the peanut-laden caramel and chocolate-drenched cookie crunch. A mix-and-match flavor chart inspires anyone with a sweet tooth to dream up custom treats of their own, such as covering marshmallows with molten chocolate. From the basics of candy making to tips on dressing up these luscious indulgences as elegant desserts, Hand-Crafted Candy Bars evokes the sweet memory of youth with simple, scrumptious sophistication.

Susie Norris is a cookbook author, award-winning artisan chocolatier, pastry chef/instructor, and educational fundraiser.  Her first book was CHOCOLATE BLISS (Random House, 2008) and HAND-CRAFTED CANDY BARS (Chronicle, 2013) has just been released, Her chocolate work has been featured on Food Network, in Dessert Professional Magazine and many other publications. She recently taught baking at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts and Sur La Table in Los Angeles.  Prior to her work in the food business, she was Vice President of Series Television at Disney Channel and held similar positions at Nickelodeon, CBS, NBC and Turner Network Television.  www.handcraftedcandybars.com

Susan Heeger, co-author of Hand-Crafted Candy Bars, is a California native and graduate of Harvard University. A long-time magazine and newspaper feature writer, she specializes in garden, design, home, lifestyle, and food stories. She is a former staff writer for Martha Stewart Living and author of the newly released Landprints: The Landscape Designs of Bernard Trainor, published by Princeton Architectural Press. She also co-wrote From Seed to Skillet, a guide to edible gardening and cooking from the garden, published by Chronicle Books. Her feature stories have appeared in publications that include The Los Angeles Times Magazine, This Old House, Martha Stewart Living, Coastal Living, Country Living, and Cooking Light.

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