Create a little bit of heaven on earth with this delightful collection of recipes for Japanese-inspired French pastries by Chef Yamashita. With fully illustrated step-by-step instructions and baking tips, Chef Yamashita shows how ordinary baking equipment and simple ingredients can be used to whip up an array of confections that are not only pretty to look at, but also sinfully delicious. Grab a good friend and spend an afternoon with buttery, creamy decadence, taking teatime to a whole new level.

Chetna Makan is known for her unique recipes, which introduce colourful spices, aromatic herbs and other Indian ingredients into traditional Western baked favourites. Whether it's a sponge cake with a cardamom and coffee filling; puff pastry bites filled with fenugreek paneer; a swirly bread rolled with citrusy coriander, mint and green mango chutney; or a steamed strawberry pudding flavoured with cinnamon, Chetna's Indian influences will transform your baking from the familiar to the exotic, from the ordinary to the extraordinary. Discover rare but precious traditional bakes from India, as well as new spice-infused recipes. Delve into the history of Indian herbs and spices and learn how to match foods and flavours.

Filled to the brim with tasty mini cakes, you'll be spoilt for choice. Whether you're entertaining or simply making small nibbles for a special treat, you'll love the selection of cup cakes and brownies. And what could be better in the morning than a lovely homemade muffin? Over 100 triple-tested recipes in a new full-colour cookery series, featuring the most popular recipes from the GH Institute Kitchens - tried, tested, trusted recipes that are guaranteed to work first time every time! Other titles in the Easy to Make! series: `Low GI' (9781843406549), `Family Meals in Minutes' (9781843406556), `Salads & Dressings' (9781843406563), `Speedy Meals' (9781843406570), `Chicken' (9781843406587), `Chocolate' (9781843406594), `BBQs & Grills' (9781843406600), `Christmas' (9781843406617) and `Slow Cook' (9781843406518).

Primrose Bakery is renowned for easy, foolproof and delicious recipes. This book has over 100 of the very best new recipes from the bakery. It is for anyone who wants fun, great-tasting recipes which genuinely work. Whether you want to bake a seasonal recipe, something for a special occasion, or something to suit that day's mood this one-stop baking bible has it all.

Achieve the delicious crust and addictive tang of a homemade sourdough loaf with this comprehensive guide from expert Vanessa Kimbell. At her renowned Sourdough School, Vanessa has taught countless students the secrets of this healthy, more easily digestible bread, and now she has compiled her teachings for the home baker. From creating your own starter from scratch, you'll then move on to basic breadmaking techniques, before progressing to using sprouted grains and experimenting with flavors to produce Fig and Earl Grey and Cherry Plum loaves. With step-by-step photography, detailed instructions, specialist advice and Vanessa's indispensable encouragement, The Sourdough School celebrates the timeless craft of artisan baking.

Christina Lane has taken her favourite desserts and scaled them down to size. Among the nearly 100 mouth-watering new recipes, you'll find: Gooey Butter Cake Cookies, Three-ingredient Flourless Chocolate Cake, Salted Butterscotch Tart, Greek Yogurt Cheesecake Ramekins, Baked Rice Pudding with Caramel, along with some light and skinny options.

In the Kew Book of Sugar Flowers, sugarcraft specialist Cassie Brown teaches you how to craft stunning, authentic-looking flowers and foliage using flower paste (gum paste). Learn how to create beautiful bouquets and stunning sprays, from the early stages of germinating your ideas - taking inspiration from nature and making moulds from real flowers and leaves - to creating floral cake decorations with an exotic or wild flower theme for a special occasion. Through clear and concise step-by-step instructions, Cassie explains every facet of crafting sugar flowers, from gaining an appreciation of the flower itself, to preparing the flower paste and colouring it to wiring the flowers into an attractive and realistic bouquet. There is a veritable garden of delights to choose from, from ornate orchids to delicate daisies. The method for crafting each individual flower is demonstrated in stunning detail beginning with an 'exploded flower' photograph that illustrates each of the individual components and working through the techniques and tricks that Cassie herself applies to create her stunning floral displays. The Kew Book of Sugar Flowers is the perfect book for the established sugarcrafter looking to develop their skills and take their cake-decorating capabilities to the next level. Readers with a particular interest in flowers and plants will also love this book for its painstaking recreation of flora in flower paste (gum paste), and the book is endorsed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew giving extra credibility to the stunning realism of the flowers that Cassie Brown has recreated. Foreword by Eddie Spence M.B.E. Eddie Spence MBE has enjoyed an illustrious career in confectionery and cake design and his superior skills have earned him the opportunity to decorate many cakes for the royal family, including Her Majesty the Queen herself.

The ultimate guide to making sourdough bread! Sourdough is a traditional style of bread that is both healthy and delicious, making it the favourite of artisan bakers. Sourdough takes patience, forethought and love to produce, and its rise in popularity is indicative of a greater shift towards a more mindful, considered way of living. Join the revolution! The recipes in this beautiful book are an invitation into a peaceful and wholesome way of living. - Tom Herbert, Sourdoughnation.com

Bored of regular baking? Looking for new challenges? Discover a whole new world of baking creativity with Bake To Impress. Let award-winning baker Christian Humbs take your baking to the next level with exceptional and exciting cake and dessert recipes from macarons to muffins and beyond. Impress your friends with over 100 classic and innovative cake recipes to create mouth-watering desserts every time. From favourites such as chocolate chip cookies to delicious new trends including cronuts and salted caramel, Bake To Impress is a beautiful guide to inspire your baking creativity. Perfect for hobby bakers seeking new challenges or anyone looking for baking inspiration, Bake To Impress is a true show-stopper.

Clean Cakes is the ultimate cookbook for anyone who enjoys baking as well as experimenting with new and alternative ingredients. It provides a wealth of ideas for cooking everything from spectacular cakes, energy-boosting muffins and wholesome loaves to stunning raw desserts and scrumptious tarts and pies, with distinctive flavour combinations and original twists on established classics. It will prove invaluable for anyone who for health or lifestyle reasons wants to eliminate gluten, dairy or refined sugar from their diet but who still wants to satisfy their sweet tooth and create their own nutritious guilt-free masterpieces. Henrietta Inman embraces nutritious whole food ingredients that are unprocessed, unrefined, natural, seasonal and local wherever possible. The first section shows how to stock your Clean Cakes larder, as well as including foundation recipes such as cashew cream, nut butters and homemade jams. Next come over 75 beautifully photographed recipes, from rich chocolate brownies, a show-stopping courgette, basil, lime and pistachio layer cake and raw desserts to five grain omega mix granola bars, spectacular fruit pies and enticing savoury tarts. These recipes are for everyone and show that cooking healthily doesn't have to mean compromising on flavour.

Add a professional touch to your cakes with this essential new book Expert sugar flower maker, Alison Procter shows you how to create an array of beautiful flowers using simplified techniques and the minimum of cutters. Her breathtaking cakes, for all occasions, are adorned with pretty side designs which ofte reflect the petal and leaf shapes of the flowers in the main arrangement.

"Fruitcake" is a jaunty little collection of heirloom fruitcake recipes selected by Marie Rudisill from a nineteenth-century family farm journal owned by Sook Faulk, a cousin of Rudisill and Truman Capote, who immortalized Sook in his novella, "A Christmas Memory." Rudisill, made famous as "The Fruitcake Lady" on Jay Leno's "Tonight Show," aims to elevate the much-maligned reputation of what she calls "the queen of cakes" in this book, which features 23 enticing recipes, including Peacock Fruitcake, Chocolate Fruitcake, Civil War Fruitcake, Pore Man's Fruitcake, and Farmer's Fruitcake. These are interspersed with pithy facts about fruitcake, an excerpt from "A Christmas Memory," bits of kitchen wisdom and baking tips, and charming family reminiscences, most of which feature Truman and Sook. With a new foreword by cookbook author Jean Anderson, this entertaining volume enriches our experience of southern cooking by raising up one of its least-trumpeted culinary traditions.

If you need to bake for a special occasion or just feel like a treat at tea time, this book is the ideal choice. A dazzling array of classic cakes, fruit cakes, spice, nut and seed cakes, irresistible chocolate cakes, dessert cakes and cheesecakes feature along with special occasion cakes, loaf cakes and tray bakes, as well as little cakes in all shapes and styles. All the classics are here, from Victoria Sponge to Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing. There are traditional fruit cakes, as well as those with fresh fruit such as spicy Plum Kuchen. Whatever cake you prefer, and whether you are a novice or an experienced baker, you won't be able to wait to start baking.

The concept of making cakes without eggs may sound difficult, but it is not new. Cintia Stammers has spent several years collecting, testing and refining recipes worldwide. This resulting book contains more than 200 recipes that show how imaginative egg free cakes can be. The recipes are based on the principle that "you are what you eat", leaning towards low-sugar, low fat and low cholesterol ingredients with emphasis on flavour, simplicity and health. For those who cannot eat eggs because of allergy or because they have chosen to cut them out of their diet, this should prove to be a handy book.

From birthdays to holidays to Tuesdays, there's always room for cake. Family and friends marvel at impressive tiered cakes while adorable individual mug cakes satisfy late-night cravings. This cookbook features recipes for coffee cakes like Cinnamon Apple Crumb Cake to timeless classics reinvented like Carrot Cake Poke Cake to quick and easy favourites like Slow Cooker Chocolate Lava Cake.

Take control of the grains you eat. Written by "Mother Earth Living" food editor Tabitha Alterman, "Whole Grain Baking and Grinding Made Easy" is a guide for bakers who want to maximize the nutritional value of their breads and desserts while experimenting with delicious new flavors of many different whole grains. Alterman includes recipes for a wide array of flours and flour blends - from amaranth to millet to teff - as well as guidance on all aspects of home milling, such as choosing a mill and properly storing your grain and flour. With straightforward instructions and full-color photography, Alterman teaches home bakers age-old methods for making deliciously tender breads and cakes out of whole-grain flours. So whether you want to bake low-gluten goodies, maximize the nutrition in your baked goods, become more self-reliant, or experiment with heirloom or heritage grains, "Whole Grain Baking and Grinding Made Easy" puts you in charge of the grains in your diet from start to finish.

The Little Book of Cake Decorating Tips is packed full of 50 essential tips for both the complete novice and the slightly more adventurous cake decorator. Learn how to get your ganache extra glossy and your sugar paste silky smooth, achieve piping perfection and beautiful sugar flowers. Herein lie simple techniques, things to avoid and those all-important finishing touches to help you create that wow factor!

Jude's Blereau's Wholefood Baking includes more than 120 tried and true recipes for cakes, scones, biscuits and pastries as well as delectable creams, icings and jams, many of which are gluten, nut and dairy-free and use whole and semi-refined flours and sugars. Together with advice on how to convert your favourite recipes using whole ingredients, Wholefood Baking is a must for those who want their baked goods to heal, nourish and delight.

Leading British cake decorator Natasha Collins shows us how to turn cakes into literal works of art in her practical and pretty new book The Painted Cake. With detailed step-by-step instructions for more than 20 projects, Natasha shows how you can create the most incredible cakes at home using fondant painted with edible colours. Her instructions encompass cooking, constructing and painting baked goods, from single-level to multi- tiered cakes, as well as cupcakes and cookies. Most featured projects use a freehand painting technique, but templates of design elements are included where appropriate. The Painted Cake progresses from the simplest projects through to more advanced so it is sure to please cake decorators of all skill levels.

Jo Wheatley, winner of the Great British Bake Off 2011, shares a new collection of the hearty food she brought her three hungry boys up on, the fool proof recipes handed down to her by her Nan, and the treats she delights her extended family and friends with. All of the 100 recipes featured have been taste tested and enjoyed by generations of Jo's family, and are now ready to be enjoyed by yours. Easy recipes for little ones, tasty pies and tarts, delicious pastries and sumptuous cakes all fill the pages of Family Baking, and all will make you want to roll up your sleeves and turn on the oven. Jo's recipes are refreshingly simple and honest, and all made regularly for her family. From a classic focaccia, to delicious chocolate and honeycomb bars, perfect American pancakes and a spectacular croquembouche, Family Baking will fill your home with fantastic homemade food all year round.

Accompanying the Channel 4 series, A Baker's Life contains 100 of Paul Hollywood's very best baking recipes, which have been finessed over decades spent as a baker.

Each chapter is filled with bakes that represent a different decade - learning the basics at his father's bakery; honing his pastry skills in the finest hotels; discovering the bold flavours of the Middle East while working in Cyprus; and finding fame with the phenomenally popular Great British Bake Off television series.

Thanks to this book (and its clear step-by-step instructions), recipes that Paul has spent years perfecting can be recreated at home. Favourites include garlic baguettes; feta and chive bread; chorizo and chilli Scotch eggs; mum's ginger biscuits; double chocolate Danish twists; and hazelnut cappuccino cake.

With photographs from personal family albums, plus many professional insights into and anecdotes that reveal what makes a great baker, A Baker's Life will show you how to bring the baking skills Paul has learnt over a lifetime into your own home kitchen.

Baking without eggs or dairy is a joy and equally as delectable with The Joy of Vegan Baking, Revised and Updated Edition. Whether you want to bake dairy- and egg-free for health, ethical, or environmental reasons, this updated edition of The Joy of Vegan Baking lets you have your cake and eat it, too! With familiar favorites including cakes, cookies, crepes, pies, puddings, and pastries this book will show you just how easy, convenient, and delectable baking without eggs and dairy can be. Winner of the VegNews magazine award for Cookbook of the Year in 2008, The Joy of Vegan Baking has been updated, with all new photography and freshly revised recipes that use the latest natural ingredients and techniques. Learn just how easy it is to enjoy your favorite homespun goodies without compromising your health or values. These treats are free of saturated fat, cholesterol, and lactose, but full of flavor. Recipes include Chocolate Chip Scones, Lemon Cheesecake, Dessert Crepes, Cinnamon Coffee Cake, Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes, Raspberry Sorbet, Soft Pretzels, Blueberry Cobbler, and Chocolate Almond Brittle. A seasoned cooking instructor and self-described "joyful vegan," author Colleen Patrick-Goudreau lays to rest the myth that vegan baking is an inferior alternative to non-vegan baking, putting it in its rightful place as a legitimate contender in the baking arena. More than just a collection of recipes, this informative cookbook is a valuable resource for any baker.