"Cookbooks with recipes for baking with sugar (in the oven) continue to top bestselling list. And yet, no one has set out to write a book on cooking with sugar (on the stovetop)--until now. In 'Sugar Baby', confectioner extraordinaire Gesine Bullock-Prado offers step-by-step advice; the simplest instructions; a hilarious voice; and delicious recipes that require no more than sugar, water, and a pot (preferably with a heavy bottom). Then, she builds on this stovetop sugar work to present recipes for candy, confections, and treats that will expand your sweets repertoire a thousandfold"--Page 2 of cover.