In Everyday Bakes to Showstopper Cakes, celebrity baker Mich Turner brings together a collection of recipes to take you all the way from the delicious everyday through to the spectacular. This cook book is perfect for those looking to sharpen up their baking skills and creat cakes and bakes that truly wow, filled with mouthwatering flavours Starting out with simple cakes, biscuits and cupcakes, once you have mastered this first level, Mich provides you with a few extra steps to turn these into fabulous creations. If you're looking for more of a challenge or to elevate a favourite, these bakes are easily adapted to create a true showstopper cake. The book is divided into sections with recipes on: Cupcakes - Start small with delicate but delicious bakes from carrot cupcakes with citrus drizzle to gin and tonic party cakes or marble ring cakes with double chocolate drip. Loaf cakes, traybakes and meringues - from raspberry and pistachio meringue roulade to a warming ginger loaf cake, these bakes are great for bakers of any ability. Layer cakes - Concoct a true show stopper with delicious and enticing layers, with recipes including red velvet cake with a white chocolate mirror glaze, strawberry shortcake floral stacks and chocolate fondant cake with fresh roses. Celebration cakes - Create piece de resistance for holidays, events and special occasions, from Halloween mini-rolls to Venetian easter eggs or a pirate pinata birthday cake. Covering a full range of bakery goods as well as perfect flavours, whether you are a novice baker or already know your rum baba from your roulade, you can be easily guided through these delicious bakes and simple but spectacular decoration techniques that make the most of wonderful flavours and perfect crumb.

This foundational book of cookies covers tips and tricks for making, storing, and gifting cookies of all kinds. With chapters organised by baking circumstances, bakers can quickly find a cookie recipe right for them - whether it's No-Bake Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies when it's too hot to turn on the oven, the Caramel-Filled Snickerdoodle Blondies that are easy to take on the go, or the Festive White Velvet Star Stacks that will light up any celebration. Features expand the cookie repertoire: baking with kids, hosting a cookie exchange, cookie dips, cookie garnishes, and clever ways of using cookie cutters. Icons throughout note recipes that start with a mix for the short-on-time baker, as well as recipes that make a big batch, for those baking for a crowd or cookie exchange.

This book contains over 400 wonderful recipes for cookies, biscuits, muffins, bars and brownies that will delight, inspire and fill the oven with delicious baking all year round. It includes classic teatime recipes such as coconut macaroons and apple and cinnamon muffins; celebration cookies such as baklava and brandy snaps; cookies for people with special dietary requirements,such as gluten-free cashew nut button cookies; and a fun section of cookies for kids, including peanut butter and jelly cookies and ice cream sandwiches. With plenty of tips and illustrated step-by-step techniques throughout,the book will ensure perfect results every time.

This charming book offers a tempting array of delicious iced fancies, cake pops, moreish muffins and much more - all at the perfect size for a small but sweet indulgence. A concise introduction shows you how to make a failproof cake batter plus offers some exciting ideas for filling and decorating your cakes. 25 recipes then follow, with something for everybody. Choose from Little Madeira Cakes with Cream and Jam, Old-Fashioned Jam Tarts, and light-as-air Madeleines. Included too are sweet treats with mouthwatering toppings such as Butterscotch Nut Muffins, Maple and Pecan Fudge Squares, and Sugar Sparkle Cupcakes. All the recipes are written with step-by-step instructions and are photographed throughout. Whether you're planning a fun tea party with friends or a special treat for the family there's plenty to choose from in this little book.

You Can Have Your Cake--and Frost It Too! With these 60 indulgent, over-the-top frosted treats from Bernice Baran, founder of Baran Bakery, you can craft impressive layer cakes, easy sheet cakes, fun cookies, bars, brownies and more--all with creative custom toppings! Master popular options like buttercream, meringue, cream cheese frosting and ganache with Bernice's go-to base frosting recipes and foolproof tips and tricks. You'll also learn which makes the perfect addition to each dessert and occasion in her Frosting 101 section, which breaks down the different flavors, textures and characteristics of each topping and what it pairs best with. Never again will runny, overheated frosting mar a beautifully decorated birthday cake or deflated whipped cream ruin the presentation of your dinner party dessert. Perfect for beginner bakers and buttercream connoisseurs alike, Frosted is the sweetness you've been missing in your day!

Winner of the 2014 James Beard Award for Best Cookbook, Dessert & Baking
What does it take to perfect a flawless eclair? A delicate yet buttery croissant? To pipe dozens of macarons? The answer is: an intimate knowledge of the fundamentals of pastry. In "The Art of French Pastry" award-winning pastry chef Jacquy Pfeiffer, cofounder of the renowned French Pastry School in Chicago, gives you just that.
By teaching you how to make everything from "pate a choux" to pastry cream, Pfeiffer builds on the basics until you have an understanding of the science behind the ingredients used, how they interact with one another, and what your hands have to do to transform them into pastry. This yields glorious results Expect to master these techniques and then indulge in exquisite recipes, such as:
- brioche
- napoleons / Mille-Feuilles
- cream puffs
- Alsatian cinnamon rolls / chinois
- lemon cream tart with meringue teardrops
- elephant ears / palmiers
- black forest cake
- beignets
as well as some traditional Alsatian savory treats, including:
- Pretzels
- Kougelhof
- Tarte Flambee
- Warm Alsatian Meat Pie
Pastry is all about precision, so Pfeiffer presents us with an amazing wealth of information--lists of necessary equipment, charts on how ingredients react in different environments, and the precise weight of ingredients in grams, with a look at their equivalent in U.S. units--which will help you in all aspects of your cooking.
But in order to properly enjoy your "just desserts," so to speak; you will also learn where these delicacies originated. Jacquy Pfeiffer comes from a long line of pastry chefs and has been making these recipes since he was a child working in his father's bakery in Alsace. Sprinkled with funny, charming memories from a lifetime in pastry, this book will have you fully appreciating the hundreds of years of tradition that shaped these recipes into the classics that we know and love, and can now serve to our friends and families over and over again.
"The Art of French Pastry, "full of gorgeous photography and Pfeiffer's accompanying illustrations, is a master class in pastry from a master teacher.

Nothing beats the sensation and satisfaction of home-baked bread - and the sales figures for breadmakers prove it. This is the book that will turn new users into old hands and give the experts plenty of great new recipe ideas to experiment with. Here Carol Palmer gives users a great range of recipes. She takes all the hard work out of getting the best from this kitchen wizard. She shows you how to set it to work and forget it - or use the dough programme to shape and bake in the traditional way.With top tips for fail-safe results no matter which breadmaker you use.

"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.

This is a complete guide to cake decorating, with over 100 projects, from traditional classics to the latest in contemporary designs. It is an inspiring collection of classic cake recipes and a comprehensive instruction course in cake making and decorating skills, in one easy-to-follow volume. It features 100 fantastic step-by-step cake decorating projects, from traditional, novelty and special occasion cakes, to wedding, christening, birthday and Christmas cakes. You can learn the techniques for working with royal icing, sugarpaste and fondant, marzipan, butter icing, fudge frosting, glace icing and chocolate icing. Cake recipes include One-stage Victoria Sandwich, Madeira Cake, Rich Fruit Cake, Black Forest Gateau, Gorgeous Chocolate Cake and Fresh Fruit Genoese. Techniques and projects are shown in 750 step-by-step photographs, making the decorating stages easy to follow. This comprehensive book is the ultimate guide to making and decorating cakes. The first section covers the basics, with recipes for a variety of classic sponge and fruit cakes, and icings and frostings, as well as stage-by-stage techniques for covering, piping and decorating. There are plenty of ideas for embellishments, from ribbons to home-made chocolate curls. The second half contains 100 projects, each with detailed instructional photographs and a glorious picture of the finished cake. Recipes include Iced Fancies, Trailing Orchid Wedding Cake, Teddy Bear Christening Cake, and even a Dinosaur Cake. With tips throughout, and everything shown step by step, it is simple to achieve stunning results with every cake.

Fortnum & Mason's Awards, shortlisted in 'Food Book' category (2021) "A beautiful love letter to the very first processed food. Any book that contains a section on the joys of crisp sandwiches gets my vote." - Jay Rayner "What an absolutely beautiful book... Pages of love letters to bread; everything it is, does, and how very special it is as a part of our food vocabulary. Wonderful words by Tim make this book perfect bedtime reading for any foodie but, more importantly, anyone who has ever eaten bread." - Tom Kerridge "A book by Tim Hayward is eagerly anticipated. When the subject is his love of bread, its lore and great many uses, his sound, good sense noting the myriad ways in which bread enhances daily life makes this book a most inspiring read. He illuminates each page with his thoughts and love of food in the most endearing of voices." - Jeremy Lee "A wonderful book and impossible to read without a smile on your face." - Rob Long A loaf of bread means different things to different people. It's at once the centrepiece of the family table, it's the source of the demon gluten, the reassuring heft of an artisan sourdough, or the fluffy comfort of a white sandwich loaf - it's the best thing since... well, sliced bread. This is NOT a book about how to make bread. No kneading, no rising, no baking. Loaf Story is a food book about bread - not just the role it plays in people's lives all over the world, but how it has been adapted and used in so many dishes. It is food of poverty and yet now we routinely pay big money for an artisanal loaf. Why does it have such a hold on us? From the British and American white sliced loaf to the French baguette, Scandinavian rye, and the uber-trendy Japanese katsu sando, the cultural significance of the loaf is manifold. With recipes for 60 dishes that can be made on bread, in bread and with bread, including a look at the myriad uses for breadcrumbs, croutons, and hollowed-out loaves, as well as the hallowed doorstep sandwich and a classic BLT, Loaf Story is a heart-warming celebration of the staff of life.

Achieve the delicious crust and addictive tang of a homemade sourdough loaf with this comprehensive guide from expert Vanessa Kimbell "Master the art of sourdough with Vanessa and you will learn how to look after your own gut microbes and health." - Tim Spector, author of The Diet Myth 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. "Vanessa is the Queen of Sourdough" - The Telegraph " Vanessa won't just teach you to make Sourdough bread, she will blow you away with how you can incorporate it into your every day baking" - Baker & Author Dan Lepard

The brains behind Bee's Bakery ('London's Top 5 biscuit bakeries' - Evening Standard), Bee Berrie is an ex-microbiologist who swapped bacteria for baking in 2012. Bee's second recipe book Bee's Adventures in Cake Decorating, is a bold, fun, easy-to-follow cake deco compendium packed full of over 30 recipes. 'This vibrant little book is bursting with wow factor inspiration - Vegetarian Living magazine, June 2017 The brains behind Bee's Bakery ('London's Top 5 biscuit bakeries' - Evening Standard), Bee Berrie is an ex-microbiologist who swapped bacteria for baking in 2012. Bee's second recipe book Bee's Adventures in Cake Decorating, is a bold, fun, easy-to-follow cake deco compendium packed full of over 30 recipes. Including recipes for brilliant cakes and frostings, from Bee's favourite vegan banana cake, to her punchy Jamaica ginger cake, with countless options for creating gluten and dairy free variations on both cake recipes and frostings, including a fantastic vegan chocolate and avocado icing recipe that just has to be tried! Since launching in 2012, without any external funding or loans, Bee has built a thriving, resilient small business and now supplies clients including Selfridges, Topshop, ASOS, Harrods and Daylesford organic. Bee regularly speaks, teaches and demonstrates at conferences, meetings and trade shows - on specific baking subjects, on entrepreneurialism, second careers and lean start-ups. WC: 15,000

Jewish baking has brought families together around the table for centuries. In Modern Jewish Baker, Shannon Sarna pays homage to traditions while reinvigorating them with modern flavours and new ideas. One kosher dough at a time, she offers the basics for challah, babka, bagels, hamantaschen, rugelach, pita and matzah. Recipes include: Chocolate Chip Hamantaschen, Tomato-Basil Challah and S'mores Babka. Detailed instructions, as well as notes on make-ahead strategies, ideas for using leftovers and other tips will have even novice bakers braiding beautiful loaves that will make any bubbe proud.

Amazingly delicious and beautiful gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, and refined sugar-free desserts from the popular Bakerita blog Rachel Conners began her blog as a hobby to share baking recipes with friends, but when she started to focus more on gluten-free, paleo, and vegan recipes to make things she could share with her sister, who was following a strict diet due to health concerns, Rachel quickly realized she was onto something. Bakerita surged in popularity as fans flocked to it for delicious and beautifully photographed recipes. Interest in gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, and refined sugar-free foods continues to grow in popularity, yet there are remarkably few books available focused just on desserts, and even fewer with recipes that even beginner bakers can make at home. That's where Bakerita comes in, offering recipes for everything from breakfast treats like Lavender-Lemon Raspberry Scones, pies and tarts such as Chocolate Mousse Pie, cakes including Mocha Chip Cheesecake, and updated all-time favorites like chocolate chip cookies, all made without any hard-to-find ingredients.

Larousse Patisserie and Baking is the complete guide from the authoritative French cookery brand Larousse.

It covers all aspects of baking - from simple everyday cakes and desserts to special occasion show-stoppers. There are more than 200 recipes included, with everything from a quick-mix yoghurt cake to salted caramel tarts and a spectacular mixed berry millefeuille. Special features on baking for children, lighter recipes and quick bakes, among many others, provide a wealth of ideas.

More than 30 extremely detailed step-by-step technique sections ensure your bakes are perfect every time. The book also includes workshops on perfecting different types of pastry, handling chocolate, cooking jam and much more, demonstrated in clear, expert photography.

This is everything you need to know about pastry, patisserie and baking from the cookery experts Larousse.

Satisfy that sweet craving as soon as it strikes with Mug Cakes - over 30 recipes for quick and delicious cakes that require minimal time and effort. Mix a simple batter in a mug with a fork, using whatever ingredients you have in your cupboard, microwave for a few minutes, and zap! You have a heavenly cake to indulge in all by yourself. Mug Cakes shares basic recipes for simple favourites such as vanilla, lemon or chocolate fondant cake, alongside recipes for more adventurous flavour combinations such as raspberry and green tea or blueberry and ricotta. You can even try recipes that push your mug-cake-making skills to the max - try marble mug cake or financier mug cake with red fruits. All you need is five minutes to spare, a microwave, and a serious cake craving!

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.