This book is for people who want to live healthily, but also love delicious and inviting cakes. For health is not only about diets and guilt. Health is also about having fun and a love of life and the body. All the cakes in this book are based on raw food principles and are completely free of sugar, milk, additives, gluten and animal fats. They are 100% vegan, unheated, natural and bursting with flavour and nutrition. There are tips on how to stop comfort eating and bad and unhealthy habits once and for all. You'll get practical advice on how to fight the craving for sweets, and how you can easily replace the unhealthy, sweet and fatty with healthy, delicious and especially nutritious alternatives. Let health, balance and happiness be your new addiction - because you can really get addicted to feeling good! Raw food expert Caroline Fibaek is a popular lecturer and the author of two bestselling raw books. She has appeared regularly on television programmes such as on Good Morning Denmark and is often featured on the health pages of magazines. She is a qualified Naturopath in Biological Medicine and has trained in anatomy, physiology and pathology, alternative pathology, and psychology. She also works as a consultant for raw food restaurants and cafes (she created the cakes for Denmark's first raw food cafe 42 Degrees Raw) as well as lecturing, running workshops and recipe development.

Learn how to make delicious whole grain sourdough breads-from Danish rye seed bread and English muffins, to focaccia and flapjacks-with recipes designed to build confidence and skill in home cooks. You'll begin by creating your own unique starter using flour, water, and warmth to attract wild yeast which develops into a dynamic, living ingredient for bread baking (detailed instructions on how to keep your starter lively for many years are included). Once your starter blossoms, you can begin baking a variety of internationally inspired breads such as fermented breads or high-fiber, whole-grain sourdough breads. And with another two-dozen recipes to choose from, there's a bread here for every occasion and craving. Slather a buttermilk biscuit with homemade Creme Fraiche Butter with Sea Salt or enjoy the naan you've just baked with Indian Spinach with Fried Paneer. Use your sourdough starter in the morning to whip up yogurt flapjacks served with Lemon Blackberry Sauce, or take an orange, pecan, and fig loaf and make Figgy French Toast. Whether a rustic boule or a stack of tortillas, all you need is basic kitchen equipment and a desire to bake bread the way it was originally done-using time and lively ingredients to create flavor.

This title offers delectable recipes for afternoon teas and party cakes, shown in 450 step-by-step photographs. You can indulge in a superb collection of over 150 teatime recipes, from sensational sandwiches and tempting flans to freshly baked scones and delicious gateaux. Each recipe is beautifully illustrated, with over 450 glorious photographs. It includes fabulous recipes for every occasion, from classic Sunday afternoon teas to special occasions. You can try Apple Cake, Summer Shortcake, Cheese & Chive Scones, Panettone, and Lemon & Lime Curd. For the health-conscious, a range of low-fat recipes offers tantalizing tastes for everyday teas and scrumptious feasts. There are easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions and cook's tips throughout. Filled with fresh ideas and superb photography, this book introduces creative cakes, bakes and preserves that will make every teatime a special occasion. There are snacks, breads and preserves, sensational sandwiches and a host of layered cakes, tarts, flans and gateaux. The book opens with a guide to cake-making and baking techniques, including pastry-making and bread yeast preparations. The superb recipes range from Mediterranean Quiche and Thai Chicken Bites to Australian Hazelnut Pavlova and Mississippi Mud Pie. There are also plenty of low-fat options. With step-by-step instructions and stunning photographs, this is the only book on teatime indulgence you will ever need.

A must-have guide for successful bakery and pastry operations

"In the Hands of a Baker" from The Culinary Institute of America helps bakers and pastry chefs identify, understand, and utilize the tools and equipment needed for successful professional baking. This indispensable book provides in-depth information on how to choose the best equipment for any baking job--from scaling and measuring tools to cutting and confectionery tools, and from small appliances to bakeware and beyond--along with proper techniques for handling and maintaining that equipment. The text also covers basic and specialized tools for every area of expertise in the craft, including baking bread, making chocolates and candies, and creating cakes and pastries. Chapters range from organizing a station to understanding the differences between home and professional equipment. This valuable resource also features step-by-step instructions with supporting photography and illustrations throughout--all in one affordable package.A perfect pastry kitchen companion, this title provides guidance on purchasing the correct equipment, organizing a workstation, and proper care and cleaning of all types of baking tools

This book deals with delectable home-baked muffins, scones, fruit loaves and quick breads. It is a wonderful collection of 30 tasty recipes for quick and simple traditional home bakes. It features classic cakes such as Blueberry Muffins and Chocolate Chip Muffins, as well as new ideas including Cherry Marmalade Muffins and Parmesan Popovers. You can enjoy a wide variety of delicious breads such as Rosemary Focaccia, Lemon and Walnut Tea Bread and Apricot Nut Loaf, as well as wholesome scones, like Cheese and Chive Scones and Orange and Raisin Scones. It contains a practical guide to baking including working with yeast, mixing methods for muffins and tea breads, and much more. There is nothing quite like the smell of home baking and few things more delicious than muffins or tea breads served straight from the oven. Muffins are a popular snack, and are so simple to bake with all sorts of wonderful ingredients, such as chocolate, fresh berries, tangy cheese or chopped nuts added to make them extra special.The quick bread recipes within this book feature Banana Bread and Orange and Honey Tea Bread while the more traditional scone recipes include Wholemeal Scones and Cheese and Marjoram Scones - delicious served still warm and oozing with butter. There is plenty here to choose a tasy teatime treat.

This is the definitive Pie Bible from the Kings of Pie, The Hairy Bikers.

In their culinary homecoming, Si and Dave celebrate a dish close to their hearts. This beautifully illustrated cookbook brings together the Great British classic in 150 brand-new recipes. Featuring an extraordinary range of pies - from the sweet and savoury, deep and small, and to the pies that are puddings - The Hairy Bikers will inspire you to cook and share the mighty dish with the ones you love.

With top tips on pastry, the failsafe methods, the secrets and the cheats, the boys will teach you how to choose the right type of pastry and filling for any occasion. Learn the rules of pastry making and how to add the right pickles, relishes and sauces to make your pie an unforgettable dish. And of course, how to make the most of those little left over bits and turn them into delicious cheese straws, jam tarts and turnovers.

This is a heart-warming, delicious and nostalgic recipe book that can be enjoyed by families, friends and fans of the nation's favourite dish.

The ultimate step-by-step, fully illustrated guide to baking perfection Baking is a hugely rewarding pastime, and this book will take you through every step of the process, from lining the tin to creating an ornate wedding cake. Multi-award winner and professional baker Mich Turner MBE offers indispensible lessons and a wealth of insider tips and knowledge. All of Mich 's expert instructions are accompanied by 1,000s of photographs showing you each step of the process - including tips on what not to do and how to avoid common baking mistakes. Making and Baking Cakes takes you through the ingredients, preparation and different cake baking methods to achieve different results, including tips for identifying and fixing baking pitfalls. Putting it All Together offers a wealth of choices for fillings, toppings, coverings and assembly. Explore the best combinations from purees to honeycomb, ganache to meringue. Learn how to handle marzipan and sugar paste with confidence and how to stack tiered cakes. Decorating: Mich takes you through the whole process from the basics, such as making the piping bag and producing straight lines, before building confidence with delicate effects such as lace, hand lettering and quilting, to tutorials on creating a selection of hand-moulded flowers, butterflies and intricate hand painting. Whether you are baking for an afternoon tea, a birthday party or a lavish celebration, Mich Turner's Cake School will provide all you need to know to become a master cake maker.

This definitive collection from the undisputed queen of cakes brings together all of Mary Berry's most mouth-watering baking recipes in a beautifully packaged edition. Filled with 250 foolproof recipes, from the classic Victoria Sponge, Very Best Chocolate Cake and Hazelnut Meringue Cake to tempting muffins, scones and bread and butter pudding, this is the most comprehensive baking cookbook you'll ever need. Mary's easy-to-follow instructions and handy tips make it ideal for kitchen novices and more experienced cooks alike, and full-colour photographs and beautiful illustrations will guide you smoothly to baking success. Drawing on her years of experience to create recipes for cakes, breads and desserts, Mary Berry's Baking Bible will prove to be a timeless classic.

In this internationally acclaimed book, Claudia Roden interweaves more than 800 recipes with the stories and histories that have shaped Jewish cooking over the centuries. The recipes are treasures garnered from almost sixteen years of Roden's research around the world, enjoying the immense diversity of traditional Jewish food.

Roden shares the most essential dishes from her native Egypt and beyond, taking us on a journey through the Jewish Diaspora: from the Ashkenazi world there is hallah bread, wine-poached salmon and luscious plum tarts, and the Sephardi chapter boasts an array of tabbouleh, falafel and the inimitable orange Passover cake. The result is a cookbook unlike any other: a learned, loving and delicious tribute to the variety and vitality of Jewish culture the world over.

With new material for this special twenty-fifth anniversary edition, this is the definitive book of Jewish cuisine; a celebration of the food, and the people, that have shaped our culinary world as we know it.

Cook up the perfect treat with Nadiya's must-have new baking book, filled with over 95 mouth-watering recipes.

Who says you can't bake every day? Inside this book Nadiya shows you how to let your oven take the strain to create simple bakes, bursting with flavour, every day of the week.

From beautiful celebration bakes to effortless weeknight dinners, easy sweet and savoury tray bakes to quick-fix lunches and snacks, Nadiya's Everyday Baking is filled with simple and mouth-watering bakes such as:

• Surprise Snickerdoodles
• White Chocolate and Raspberry Puff Bar
• Marbled Ice Cream Loaf Cake
• Butterscotch Cheesecake Coconut Bars
• No-Knead Bread
• Dump-It-All-In Mexican Dinner
• Paprika Egg Filo Bake and more...

Above all, Nadiya's incredible, stress-free recipes will show you that anyone can reap the benefits of baking, all you need is an oven.

From the splendid Eccles cakes of London's St John Bakery to the delicate pasteis de nata at Manteigaria in Lisbon, Europe's Best Bakeries has baked goods for every taste. This overview of bakeries in the UK, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Spain, Greece, Italy, Germany and France is a fascinating, mouth-watering and unique introduction to Europe's long and impressive baking tradition.

Elegant techniques for the accomplished baker

Master Chef Bo Friberg returns with sophisticated dessert recipes for the advanced professional chef and the serious home baker. A companion to the popular The Professional Pastry Chef: Fundamentals of Baking and Pastry, this new book delivers readers to the upper echelons of pastry creation, describing advanced techniques in sugarwork, chocolate artistry, and marzipan figures. Chef Bo also devotes chapters to the baking and business of wedding cakes, holiday favorites, modernist desserts, light desserts, and advanced decorating techniques. The accomplished baker will enjoy considerably expanding his or her repertoire with The Advanced Professional Pastry Chef.

"Bo Friberg’s The Advanced Professional Pastry Chef is a superb resource for the pastry student, as well as the established chef. His years of experience as a chef and teacher shine through in these well-formulated recipes and insightful tips. This is an essential book for every student of pastry who aspires to a higher level."
–Jacquy Pfeiffer, Pastry Instructor and Owner of the French Pastry School

"I bake because it connects my soul to my hands, and my heart to my mouth."-Martin Philip A brilliant, moving meditation on craft and love, and an intimate portrait of baking and our communion with food-complete with seventy-five original recipes and illustrated with dozens of photographs and original hand-drawn illustrations-from the head bread baker of King Arthur Flour. Yearning for creative connection, Martin Philip traded his finance career in New York City for an entry-level baker position at King Arthur Flour in rural Vermont. A true Renaissance man, the opera singer, banjo player, and passionate amateur baker worked his way up, eventually becoming head bread baker. But Philip is not just a talented craftsman; he is a bread shaman. Being a baker isn't just mastering the chemistry of flour, salt, water, and yeast; it is being an alchemist-perfecting the transformation of simple ingredients into an elegant expression of the soul. Breaking Bread is an intimate tour of Philip's kitchen, mind, and heart. Through seventy-five original recipes and life stories told with incandescent prose, he shares not only the secrets to creating loaves of unparalleled beauty and flavor but the secrets to a good life. From the butter biscuits, pecan pie, and whiskey bread pudding of his childhood in the Ozarks to French baguettes and focaccias, bagels and muffins, cinnamon buns and ginger scones, Breaking Bread is a guide to wholeheartedly embracing the staff of life. Philip gently guides novice bakers and offers recipes and techniques for the most advanced levels. He also includes a substantial technical section covering the bread-making process, tools, and ingredients. As he illuminates an artisan's odyssey and a life lived passionately, he reveals how the act of baking offers spiritual connection to our pasts, our families, our culture and communities, and, ultimately, ourselves. Exquisite, sensuous, and delectable, Breaking Bread inspires us to take risks, make bolder choices, live more fully, and bake bread and break it with those we love.

There is nothing quite like the smell of a scrumptious meat and potato pie cooking in the oven. There perhaps isn't anything better than the first taste of a caramel and coffee eclair. From Britain's favourite expert baker comes a mouth-watering new book about two of our nation's obsessions: pies and puddings. Paul Hollywood puts his signature twist on the traditional classics, with easy-to-follow, foolproof and tantalising recipes for steak and ale pie, pork, apple and cider pie, lamb kidney and rosemary suet pudding, sausage plait and luxury fish pie. He will show you how to create inventive dishes such as chicken and chorizo empanadas, chilli beef cornbread pies and savoury choux buns. If that isn't enough, here you will find his recipe for the Queen of puddings, as well as spiced plum pizza, chocolate volcanoes and apple and Wensleydale pie. There are also regional recipes like Yorkshire curd tart and the Bedfordshire clanger, and a step-by-step guide to all the classic doughs from rich shortcrust to choux pastry. Paul Hollywood's Pies and Puds is simply a must-have. Whether you're a sweet or a savoury person, a keen novice or an expert baker: it's time to get baking pies and puds.

The former royal chef to TRH The Prince & Princess of Wales, Prince William and Prince Harry shares 50 of her best-loved recipes fit for any teatime event. Carolyn Robb presents sumptuous recipes for delectable sweet and savory tea-time treats, which are tied to twelve of Britain's best-loved royal palaces and castles. Recipes include gingerbread sentry boxes and soldiers; the ultimate child's afternoon tea treat. There are miniature clotted cream and raspberry scones; fit for a royal garden party and an elegant lemon and elderflower cake - echoing the one served at Harry and Meghan's wedding at Windsor Castle. Each recipe has a story of its own and offers a taste of the traditions surrounding British afternoon tea. Recipes rely on seasonal ingredients and have easy-to-follow instructions so that cooks of all ages and skill levels can create something spectacular. The cookbook is filled with beautiful food imagery and inspiration for serving an afternoon tea fit for a Queen. ROYAL INSIDER: Carolyn Robb served as a chef to the royal family for 13 years, creating both intimate family meals and large formal events. 50 RECIPES: Create a royal tea party with sweets and savories. Both US and metric measurements are included for every recipe. INSPIRING IMAGES: The cookbook is filled with beautiful food imagery/photography and inspiration for serving an afternoon tea fit for a Queen. PALACE TOUR: Take a virtual visit to 12 fascinating, popular palaces and castles. CLASSICS MADE MODERN: Recipes feature seasonal ingredients and easy-to-follow instructions so that cooks of every skill level can create their own spectacular palace tea party.

"Happiness is baking cookies. Happiness is giving them away. And serving them, and eating them, talking about them, reading and writing about them, thinking about them, and sharing them with you." Maida Heatter is one of the most iconic and fondly-remembered cookbook authors of all time. Her recipes, each a modern classic, are must-haves in every home baker's bag of tricks: her cookies, cakes, muffins, tarts, pies, and sweets of all kinds range from extravagantly special to the comforting and everyday. Her brown-sugary Budapest Coffee Cake, her minty Palm Beach Brownies, her sophisticated East 62nd Street Lemon Cake, and many other desserts have inspired legions of devotees. Happiness is Baking reproduces Maida's best-loved recipes in a fully illustrated new edition with a foreword by Dorie Greenspan. Developed for foolproof baking by experienced cooks and novices alice, these recipes bear Maida's trademark warmth, no-nonsense style, and her promise that they will work every time. Happiness is Baking is the perfect gift for anyone who loves baking--or who knows the happiness that comes from a delicious dessert.

La Patisserie des Reves (translating literally as The Patisserie of Dreams) is the name of the world famous French pastry shops; the brainchild of pastry chef Philippe Conticini and entrepreneur and hotelier Thierry Teyssier. With four shops already open in France, the first shop in London opened in March, bringing traditional French patisserie with a modern twist to the British capital. Their recipe book of the same name published in French in 2012 is published in English to coincide with this historic opening. The book contains over 70 recipes for their signature pastries, recipes include the traditional Saint Honore (choux pastry, cream and caramel topping) and Paris-Brest (choux pastry with praline cream and praline sauce). Philippe Conticini has worked as a pastry chef for many years, including a stint at La Table d'Anvers restaurant in Paris. He and business partner Thierry Teyssier, who had already set up a theatre company, an events company and a similarly-named hotel company Maisons des Reves launched the Patisserie des Reves concept after deciding that they wanted a pastry shop that would recreate the excitement children feel about fresh cakes.

While most gluten-free baking cookbooks simply replace all-purpose wheat flour, usually with white rice, tapioca and potato flours, this book celebrates the wide array of grains, nuts and seeds that add unique texture and flavour to desserts. Recipes oust hard-to-find gums, such as guar and xanthan, and minimize starches, such as corn, tapioca and potato. Alternative Baker highlights lesser-known flours such as millet, oat, buckwheat, chestnut, sorghum and mesquite. These flours provide recipe with superior texture, flavour and nutritional value to boot. Alternative Baker feature fruit-based recipes that range from breakfast breads to pies, tarts, crisps, cobblers, cakes, custards and small treats like cookies and bars. Examples include Cranberry Millet Scones with Vanilla Bean Glaze; Buckwheat, Pear Walnut Galettes with Salty Honey Caramel; Salty Caramel & Banana Cream Tarts in a Mesquite Crust and Maple Bourbon Peach Cobbler with Brown Butter Biscuits. In addition, the book includes recipes for basics like sauces and accompaniments. Author Alanna Taylor-Tobin is a classically trained pastry chef who has been developing recipes and techniques for her own gluten sensitivity for more than a decade. Her love of alternative, unrefined flours, sweeteners and organic produce is a product of her upbringing by health-nut hippie parents.