Review and giveaway: Chocolate- A Love Story (cookbook)-CLOSED

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Thanks to my involvement at the Product Review Place, I was sent a copy of a fun new cookbook to review. The cookbook is called Chocolate- a Love Story, and features 65 chocolate recipes from Max Brenner's private collection. Max Brenner is a chocolate chain with restaurants in Australia, Israel, the US, the Philippines and Singapore.  And if the recipes in this book are any indication of the food in the restaurants, I must find my way to one immediately.

This cookbook is full of quirky art deco posters, unusual descriptions and fabulous recipes. You'll love browsing through the cookbook, dreaming of all the yummy food and smiling at the illustrations and descriptions.  As I mentioned, there are 65 recipes in this cookbook, ranging from morning chocolate recipes, to chocolate pies, to chocolate drinks and chocolate cookies, to name a few.

My parents are visiting this week, and doing a great job of entertaining my small children, so I had time to really go through this book and pick my favorite recipe to try out. I opted to make the recipe called "My very own honey pie manifest". It was actually really easy to make, and I even had most of the ingredients in my house already.  It turned out deliciously- like a dark chocolate pecan pie. My family keeps sneaking in the kitchen and getting "just one more little piece".  Even my husband really liked it, and he's not a big fan of sweets.

This is a wonderful cookbook for the chocolate lover in your life, or for anyone who's looking for some great new, and unusual dessert ideas.

Since I'm about to go on a diet (baby weight to lose!), I'm going to pass on my cookbook to one of you lucky people! It's in great shape and would be suitable for gifting, so even if you don't want it for yourself, you can enter and use it for a Christmas gift!

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Let me know what is your favorite dessert!

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I'm going to end this giveaway early, so that I can get it to the winner in time for the beginning of the holiday season. I'll choose a winner around 9 PM Pacific time on Thursday, November 12, 2009. I'll email the winner and that person will have 48 hours to respond. Good luck!

Disclaimer: I was sent this cookbook so that I could write a review of it. I was not compensated in any other way and all opinions presented here are mine and mine alone.