Sweets master and TikTok sensation Amy Chao shares the secrets for recreating her most beloved designs in this utterly charming collection that packs in the happiness. Learn all the essential tips and tricks behind her signature meringue "floaties," colorful marshmallows and mouthwatering macarons - featuring a variety of lip-smacking fillings to choose from! - with recipes like: Cutest Corgi Butts Marshmallows Fun Fluffy Sheep Meringue Cookies Sleepy Pandas Macarons Cat Paw Marshmallows Stunning Seashells Macarons with Edible Pearls Adorable Elephant Meringue Cookies . . . and more! With 50 recipes that are as fun to make as they are to eat, there are options to brighten up any occasion. Each design includes step-by-step illustrations that take the intimidation out of these treats, letting you focus on the fun. Meanwhile, comprehensive troubleshooting sections, plus easy-to-trace templates for perfectly piped macarons, make it simple to whip up these specialty sweets in the comfort of your own home. A confection lover's dream, this is the perfect uplifting addition to expand your baking repertoire.

What do brownies, lamingtons, meringues and monsters have in common? They all taste better on sticks! Make Me Cake & Cookie Pops introduces readers to this delightful new baking trend with easy-to-follow recipes and loads of fun decorating ideas. This next book in the Make Me series is dedicated to every kind of 'pop' with chapters on cookie pops, cake pops, party pops and super-simple pops. From fancy afternoon teas to children's birthday parties, Make Me Cake and Cookie Pops will inspire fun at any occasion.

Reap the rewards of cutting out gluten and dairy from your diet while still enjoying cookies, cakes, bread, bars, and more with 200 recipes for baked goods you're sure to enjoy. Think avoiding gluten and dairy means dessert is out of the question? Think again. Whether you have a food allergy or intolerance, or are simply baking for family or friends,The Everything Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free Baking Cookbook features recipes for decadent cakes, chewy cookies, tasty breakfasts, and sweet treats with ingredients that align with your diet. Featuring easy swaps and creative combinations, you won't miss the gluten or the dairy. With 200 recipes and beautiful color photographs, this book is sure to satisfy your sweet tooth cravings. No need to skip dessert-now you can start enjoying these delicious recipes today!

Move over cupcakes and macarons, here come whoopies - the next big thing in baking! Make Me: Whoopies will introduce readers to the American cakey-cookie taking the world by storm. From classic flavour combinations such as double chocolate, pumpkin and vanilla, to more playful recipes such as green tea and cherry, rocky road and banana split, this book will introduce new and enthusiastic bakers, even those with limited skills, to the wonderful world of whoopies. Packed with simple recipes suitable for beginners, exciting decorating ideas and a basics section that will make creating your own personalised whoopies a breeze, Make Me: Whoopies is the perfect addition to any baker's kitchen.

This book contains classic recipes from around the world and is divided into chapters covering ice cream and iced desserts; cold desserts; pies, tarts and cheesecakes; cakes, gateaux and pastries; fruit desserts; and hot puddings. Try Rich Chocolate Mousse Gateau or Meringues with Chestnut Cream. There follows a helpful section giving tips and advice, including techniques on making different types of pastry, preparing fresh fruit and mastering some basic recipes such as Creme Anglaise and Chocolate Fudge Sauce. Each recipe is illustrated with full-colour photography and written in easy-to-follow steps. This tempting volume will provide inspiration time and time again for making a glorious array of delightful desserts.

Exquisitely designed, beautifully written and featuring mouth-watering photography, this gorgeous tome from Guardian columnist and award-winning food writer Rachel Roddy makes the perfect gift for the pasta lover in your life! Guardian columnist and award-winning food writer Rachel Roddy condenses everything she has learned about Italy's favourite food in a practical, easy-to-use and mouth-watering collection of 100 essential pasta and pasta sauce recipes. Along with the recipes are short essays that weave together the history, culture and the everyday life of pasta shapes from the tip to the toe of Italy. There is pasta made with water, and pasta with egg; shapes made by hand and those rolled a by machine; the long and the short; the rolled and the stretched; the twisted and the stuffed; the fresh and the dried. The A-Z of Pasta tells you how to match pasta shapes with sauces, and how to serve them. The recipes range from the familiar - pesto, ragu and carbonara - to the unfamiliar (but thrilling). This is glorious celebration of pasta from one of the best food writers of our time. SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDRE SIMONS FOOD & DRINK BOOK AWARDS ________________________ 'I love this book. Every story is a little gem - a beautiful hymn to each curl, twist and ribbon of pasta.' Nigel Slater 'Rachel Roddy describing how to boil potatoes would inspire me. There are very, very few who possess such a supremely uncluttered culinary voice as hers, just now' Simon Hopkinson 'Rachel Roddy's writing is as absorbing as any novel' Russell Norman, author of Polpo 'Roddy is a gifted storyteller, and a masterful hand with simple ingredients' Guardian Cook

Eat your way through the most legendary foods from the worlds of science fiction, fantasy, and more, with over 70 recipes of the most delicious and nerdiest eats as realistically imagined by Cassandra Reeder aka The Geeky Chef. Whether you binge sci-fi TV shows, rewatch cult films, get addicted to MMORPGs, or read all the fantasy book series, The Geeky Chef Cookbook has your fictional food fantasies covered. For super fans of every variety, this leveled-upcookbook will soon have you unlocking achievements in the kitchen, no matter if you're cooking for yourself, a friend, or even a viewing party. So, if you loveGame of Thrones, Legend of Zelda, Doctor Who, World ofWarcraft, Final Fantasy, Star Wars, or any other inspiring work of nerd content, set your stomach to empty and dive in. Let your love for sci-fi or fantasy shine with The Geeky Chef series by creating food and drinks from your favorite shows, movies, and video games. Your cool, homemade, fiction-themed spread will make you the life of the party. Incredibly fun and creative, and colorfully designed, The Geeky Chef books make the perfect gift for the geek in your life who lives in a world of their own. Other titles in this series include: Geeky Bartender Drinks, Geeky Chef Cookbook, Geeky Chef Drinks, and Geeky Chef Strikes Back.

A great way of getting our daily 5 a day is to eat plenty of salads. Salads are more than lettuce - a huge variety of different vegetables, meat, chicken, fish or tofu can be used to make a tempting dish. The versatility of salads is such that they can be made with fresh, frozen, cooked or canned ingredients, and there are endless possible variations. Fresh, colourful and exciting, this book is filled with recipes for every type of salad. From Chinese Chive and Onion Salad and Asparagus and Langoustine Salad to Lebanese Country Salad and Panzanella, you will never be short of inspiration. Each recipe clearly lists the ingredients you will need, and detailed step-by-step instructions ensure great results every time. Also included is a comprehensive guide to salad essentials, such as vegetables, leaves and herbs, plus recipes for salad dressings, dips, oils and vinegars. Beautifully illustrated with 245 stunning pictures, this book is the perfect guide to producing tempting and tasty salads at any time, for any occasion.

A tv tie-in with Lorraine Pascale, the model baker. Supermodel turned patisserie chef Lorraine Pascale is the BBC's new home baking heroine. In this gorgeous new cookbook to accompany the series, Lorraine shares her expertise, passion and her all time favourite sweet and savoury recipes. Baking is back and as a qualified baker with years of experience in some of the country's hottest restaurants, Lorraine knows just how to create modern, delicious and inspiring recipes. Here you'll find 100 mouth watering recipes for every kind of baked goody - including breads, cakes, tarts, pies and much much more. Lorraine draws on her training to reveal all her top baking shortcuts, cheats, confessions and tips on how to create wonderful tasting food that will inspire both seasoned cooks and novices. Whether for time crunch suppers, dinner parties for your closest friends, laid back tea parties or lazy breakfasts for your loved one, there are recipes for every occasion. You'll find new twists on old favourites - like Lorraine 's Incredibly Naughty Mini Toad-in-the-Hole or her Baked Alaska with Champagne Strawberries, along with modern classics like Parmesan Lollipops and Pumpkin and Chestnut Empanadas. So, whether you're a kitchen adventurer or cautious cook, get the oven on, it's time to discover the modern delights of baking. Urban, sexy, independent and effortlessly stylish Lorraine will be a breath of fresh air to the world of cookery.

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.

This isn't your ordinary bread book. From artisan bread making, to savory breakfasts and brunch (hello, ultimate cinnamon roll!), to decadent but simple desserts, Baking with The Bread Lady takes you on a journey through recipes and stories, inviting you to come together to create community and memories around food. In Baking with The Bread Lady, popular baker and gifted teacher Sarah Gonzalez-lovingly known as "The Bread Lady"-shares her love for the art of baking that grew from family tradition and the popularity of her Spring Hill, Tennessee, bakery. Sarah has discovered that while people crave comfort food, it's their greater longing for community and belonging that serve as the magic ingredients that give these recipes a greater purpose. Beginners and seasoned bakers alike will salivate over: 100 original recipes with beautiful photos Practical tips to learn to love baking from scratch New and creative baking concepts built on centuries of tradition Classic recipes and tricks to pass on to the next generation Baking "hacks" such as how to store, thaw, and reheat bread Baking with The Bread Lady is approachable for first-time bakers but also includes more advanced recipes for those looking for a challenge, making it a great gift for budding bakers, makers, and anyone eager to develop their baking skills. Whether your gathering place is your kitchen, your neighborhood, or a video call with family far away, connecting over food creates wonderful (and tasty) memories and lasting relationships. Baking with The Bread Lady will entertain you through inspiring and fun stories such as: "The Care and Feeding of Neighbors" "Happy Eggs" "The Process of Invention" How her 170-year-old gingerbread recipe came to be Fall in love with baking for yourself, for your family, and for others with these creative and tasty recipes, photos, and stories.

Bake Me I'm Yours... Cupcake Learn how to make over 100 quick and easy cupcake designs, with Bake Me I'm Yours... Cupcake, from Joan and Graham Belgrove. Packed with loads of gorgeous seasonal, wedding and birthday cupcake designs, as well as fun designs for all sorts of other occasions, this book contains all the ideas you need to make yummy edible gifts for friends and family! Includes tasty cupcake recipes for you to bake, as well as instructions for topping cupcakes using fondant icing, buttercream, royal icing, sugarpaste, chocolate cupcake topping, petal paste, edible glitter and sweets, and sugar embellishments. You can even transform traditional cupcakes into cupcake wedding favours or elegant cupcake towers - a perfect alternative to a contemporary wedding cake. Inside Bake Me I'm Yours... Cupcake: Gorgeous cupcake designs for: Weddings Birthdays Valentines Engagements Anniversaries Easter Christmas Mother's Day Christenings Thanksgiving Halloween New Year Tea Parties Picnics And More!

WITH KISSES FROM ITALY

A frosty masterclass in the simple art of gelato...

Gelupo Gelato presents a rainbow spectrum of simple, sophisticated gelato recipes from tangy Lime Sherbet to fruity Peach & Blood Orange, creamy Marron Glacé, and decadent Chocolate & Whisky.

And that's not all! There are definitive recipes for a classic granita (like grown-up slushie), barely-melting semifreddo, ice cream cake, profiteroles, ice cream cones and brioche buns - as well as the only chocolate sauce you'll ever need and a tip sheet for pairing flavours.

"Once you've had one, you'll want them all" Evening Standard

This is the moment when gelato becomes your cold, sweet new Italian obsession.

Live healthier for longer with the international bestselling guide that will change your life 'The diet that holds the key to staying young . . . Dr Valter Longo is now considered one of the most influential voices in the 'fasting movement' The Times 'Dr Valter Longo is one of the real scientific pioneers when it comes to researching the impact of food on health' Dr Michael Mosley, bestselling author of The Fast Diet and The Clever Guts Diet ________ This is the clinically tested, revolutionary and straightforward diet to help you slow-down ageing, fight disease and lose weight. Following 30 years of research, Professor Valter Longo - a biochemist and one of the world's leading researchers into ageing - discovered that the secret of longevity lies in cellular regeneration triggered by a special diet. And that by adhering to his fasting-mimicking diet, we can heal ourselves through food. The Longevity Diet will guide you through the process with: * An easy-to-adopt lifetime plan * Fasting-mimicking diet 3-4 times a year, just 5 days at a time * 30 easy and delicious recipes based on Longo's 'Five Pillars of Longevity' In this lifelong, health-boosting plan, you will feel the benefits of fasting without the hunger and live a longer, healthier and more fulfilled life. And you'll get to try easy, plant-and-fish based recipes . . . * Great for the heart and rich in antioxidants: black rice with courgette and shrimp * For a good source of iron, snack on dark chocolate and yoghurt * For dessert try tangy dried cranberries and walnuts ________ Make simple changes that can extend your healthy lifespan * Prevent age-related muscle and bone loss * Build your resistance to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's and cancer * Maintain your ideal weight and reduce abdominal fat

Discover the pleasures of cooking-and eating-with this French approach to everyday meals. Featured on bistro menus and dinner tables throughout France, the plat du jour is the centrepiece of a two-course meal, a formula that Susan Loomis cleverly presents here. By pairing substantial main dishes such as Boeuf Bourguignon, Poule au Pot and Bouillabaisse, with just the right starter, side and/or dessert, Plat du Jour makes getting dinner on the table as easy as un, deux, trois! This is a long-awaited collection of classic recipes by Loomis, an American-born cooking teacher and author, based in Paris. She has perfected these iconic dishes and shares what she's discovered while living in France, cooking for family, friends and students. In addition to the recipes, the cookbook includes helpful tips and intriguing details about French culinary history. It's a must-have for any aspiring home cook with a craving for simple French cooking.

Balti cooking is one of the most exciting techniques for making delicious and exotic stove-top meals that are high in taste and quick to cook. Many of the wonderful curries naturally lend themselves to low-fat cooking techniques, so you can enjoy rich Balti fare without worrying about the calories. This book contains 50 tempting recipes for all occasions, including Balti Lamb in Yogurt and Garam Masala Sauce, Stir-fried Vegetables with Monkfish, Balti Chicken Vindaloo and Mini Mince Koftas in Onion Sauce. An illustrated introduction supplies information on special ingredients and techniques, and cook's tips throughout highlight particular cooking methods and helpful recipe variations. Whether you want a complete low-fat Balti meal or just a single interesting course or accompaniment to perk up a low-fat diet, this book will have exactly the recipe you need.

The question is as old as parenting itself: How can new moms and dads eat well when all their time and energy is spent on baby? Finally, we have the answer

Specifically designed for frazzled, sleep-deprived parents, every recipe in Parents Need to Eat, Too is nutritious, delicious, satisfying, and EASY. As a bonus each recipe includes instructions for preparing baby food from the same ingredients. Plus every recipe has the added advantage of being tested by a group of more than 100 new parents.

Inside you'll find: Meals you can eat with one hand Recipes for the new parent's best friend: the slow cooker More ambitious recipes, broken down into simple stages to perform while baby naps "Un-Recipes" for parents who can't cook at all Recipes that support breastfeeding Advice from experts, including a pediatric dietitian and a lactation consultant

Here are real solutions for the real problems new parents face in the kitchen. Through comforting, honest, and essential help for stressed out, undernourished moms and pops, Parents Need To Eat Too ensures that nobody will go hungry

Parents Need to Eat Too has been named one of the Best Cookbooks of 2012 by Leite's Culinaria, whose Editor-in-Chief Renee Schettler Rossi called it the "What to Expect After You're Expecting" and said that the book "savvily and sassily helps you extend the efficiency of any time spent in the kitchen."

Make the most of fresh produce all year round with more than 200 homemade soup recipes organized by season, then by ingredient. The Soup Book is packed with nourishing recipes for every season. Try winter warmers such as parsnip and apple soup or French onion soup, enjoy a light summer lunch of chilled cucumber soup with dill, and make a hearty borscht or pumpkin soup in autumn. The recipes are organized first by season, and then by ingredient, so you can easily find the ideal soup to suit the fresh ingredients you have to hand. Featuring recipes from Raymond Blanc, Dan Barber, Alice Waters, and other supporters of The Soil Association, The Soup Book offers plenty of recipe ideas and inspiration to fill your bowl. Sure to get your tastebuds tingling, you can discover: - 200 tried-and-tested recipes organised by first by season, then by ingredient. - Every recipe is accompanied by advice on freezing. - Includes a chapter of bread recipes that can be baked to accompany the soups. Each recipe is accompanied by freezing times so that you can prepare your favourite recipes to enjoy later. This updated edition features more photographs to accompany the book's refreshed design, along with a brand-new foreword from The Soil Association. A must-have cookbook for cooks looking for inventive ways to avoid waste and use up vegetables or pantry items and budget-conscious cooks looking for nutritious, filling recipes as well as health-conscious cooks looking for recipes that will help them reduce their calorie intake. Make hearty, wholesome, and healthy soups all year round with The Soup Book.

Author and savory pie expert Ken Haedrich takes you on a global tour of dinner pies from food cultures across the world in this freshly illustrated adaptation of his popular Dinner Pies cookbook. Dinner pies have become a favorite go-to for one-dish recipes. Perfect your own crust or, dare we say, buy a pre-made crust and the variations are endless. Learn how to make classic Americana chicken pot pie, British steak and ale pies, Indian potato and pea samosas, spicy Spanish empanadas, and many more crust and no-crust versions of one of the world's most prolific go-to dinners. Recipes for a range of crusts and make-ahead ideas are included along with how to use the almighty leftover to create pie masterpieces that are all your own! With over 80 recipes and amazing, new four-color photography, this is both a cookbook and an around-the-world tour of culinary traditions that can be incorporated into your own home kitchen weekly menu. Enjoy making and sharing: Kale & Smoked Chorizo Hand Pies Creamy Red Potato & Parmesan Tart Salmon, Smoked Cheddar & Dill Quiche Moroccan Lamb Pie Tempeh & Brown Rice Empanadas Tuscan-Style Pork Turnovers Thanksgiving Leftovers Shepherd's Pie Great for parties, families, Sunday night dinners, neighborly welcomes, holidays, and any-old-night-of-the-week dinners, and breakfasts and lunches-Savory Dinner Pies offers something for every kitchen.

Infuse your baking with a sprinkle of glitter, a rainbow of colours and a menagerie of woodland creatures with the help of this unique baking book from everyone's favourite Great British Bake Off finalist, Kim-Joy!

If you've ever wanted to know how to bring your baking to life, Kim-Joy will show you how in this fun and practical book. As well as basic cake mixes, biscuit doughs, fillings/frostings and decorating techniques, she shares 40 of her wonderfully imaginative designs for iced biscuit creatures, big occasion cakes, character macarons and meringues, ornate breads and showstopping traybakes. Recipes include step-by-step photography and adorable illustrations accompanied by little messages of positivity throughout.

Whether you want to learn how to make a llama cookie, a cat paradise cake, a panda-madeleine or a choux-bun turtle, there's something here to capture your imagination and spread a little (Kim-)Joy!

Cooking for one or two people isn't as simple as cutting recipes in half or quarters and here, seasoned author Joanna Pruess tackles the measurements, to create delicious and healthy soups without waste or leftovers. She reveals how to use ingredients completely and provides shortcuts to getting just the right amounts of meat and vegetables. Organised by type rather than ingredient, with chapters on creamy soups, tomato-based soups, meal soups and so on, Soup for Two offers more than 85 recipes, ranging from 15-Minute Corn and Shrimp Chowder to Kale, Chickpea and Coconut Soup to Rainy Day Tomato Bisque with Mini Grilled Cheese Bites and Madras Red Lentil Soup. If you love making soup but aren't feeding a crowd-with great recipes and mouthwatering photography-Soup For Two is just for you.