The Home-Made Sweet Shop: Make Your Own Confectionery with Over 90 Recipes for Traditional Sweets, Candies and Chocolates Paperback – Illustrated, 28 April 2017

Oh how I love this book! I cannot believe I have lived so long without it. It is extremely good value for money, full to the brim with beautiful photos of confections and written in an informative but easy to follow manner.I frequently just sit and drool over it. I plan all kinds of fabulous gifts for my loved ones then admit to myself that I would probably have to eat them all, just to be on the safe side.Some equipment is needed before starting, such as a sugar thermometer and large pan, but the rest is everyday stuff we have in our kitchens. Some things require a marble slab to work on, but I will be buying a granite worktop saver instead as a more affordable option.Probably the easiest thing to start with would be the chocolate bark, but the lemon sherbert and rose cremes look pretty good too!Christmas is coming and what better way to save some money and give lovely things than with home-made sweets and chocolates. Can't beat it!

Perfect for learning baking sweets

The book is well presented with the first section being on candy making basics like tempering chocolate. A sugar thermometer is a must for most of these recipes, and though it can be judged by other methods, I like to know just how hot the mixture is- especially as I use both gas and electric hobs. Surprisingly, though it takes slightly longer to heat up electric hobs seem to give more control.There's plenty of pictures and detail in the recipes, though as someone else said, it sometimes feels like there's a slight detail that it's not telling you. The sectioning of the book is well thought out and the ingredients widely available.I'd also recommend double checking you have everything you need for a recipe and enough time to see it through at the end.As a warning this product is essentially the same as the old fashion sweet shop recipe book by the same author, but with a different cover, so be careful not to double buy.Excellent book overall.

As discribed

I thought this was A5vsized but it's bigger than A4. The dust cover is a bit scuffed on the corners, but the book itself is VGC.Recipes for boiled sweets, lollies, toffees, caramels, fudge, marshmallow, nougat, chocolates and more !!! (*_*)

The instructions are not explicit enough for the novice. Made Turkish delight and fudge with my grandchildren with very disappointing results.

Love this book! If you like baking and creating then you will love this! the recipes are easy to follow and easy to do. I personally made 3 of the truffles (cappuccinos, dark choc truffles and champagne) for a food hamper. The methods are easy to read and the help and advice at the begging is brilliant if you are just starting out when making sweets.Perfect book to get you started.

This is a fantastic book, with a great range of recipes. I had never tried making sweets before, but found the recipes easy to follow, with detailed instructions and pictures. So far I've made blackberry jellies, marshmallows and espresso-macadamia fudge. Each one turned out perfectly.