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Fondant haters, lazy bakers and time-poor hosts rejoice! These naked cakes are achievable, budget friendly and swoon worthy--and they provide an ideal opportunity to experiment with and display your individual creativity. Beautiful, rustic and organic in form, naked cakes are always tiered, with filling and frosting between layers but never on the outside--thus 'naked'. Within these pages you will find information on choosing a style of cake; how to make sweet fillings, butters and frostings as...

Most of us have been wowed by the delights of French patisserie. Now Edd Kimber shows you how to recreate these recipes at home. With step-by-step photographs for basic pastry and icings, Edd guides you through the techniques, taking the fear out of a Genoise sponge and simplifying a croissant dough. Chapters include: * Sweet Treats featuring Classic Financiers, Canneles and Eclairs * Desserts & Cakes such as Cherry Clafoutis and Buche de Noel * Pastry including basic recipes for pate...

Features cake, cookie, cupcake, and breakfast food recipes that use boxed cake mixes, and are prepared using a minimum amount of time and ingredients.

Just like her popular cooking blog ‘Stuff I Make, Bake and Love’ Lilly Higgins has a chatty and warm style making baking approachable and fun. Her fabulous recipes with a hint of nostalgia and beautiful photographs will make you want to stock up on butter and sugar and bake that cake! Sections Big Cakes: Includes Banoffee Cake, Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake, Orange Blossom Cake Small Cakes: Bakewell Cupcakes, Custard Slices, Rhubarb Macaroons Breads: Bagels, Guinness & Rye Bread,...

Home-baked cupcakes make wonderful gifts and are absolutely guaranteed to bring a smile to the face of any grateful recipient. Give them as a Valentine's Day surprise or simply to say 'we love you' to grandparents any day of the year. Take a box of them to a new mother to celebrate the birth of her baby, or present them as a gift for your hostess when visiting friends or family. Drop a batch round to a dear friend who is feeling under the weather, or to good neighbours to let them know you appre...

Known as wacky cake, war cake, Depression cake, Joe cake, dump cake or crazy cake, the delicious premise behind them is all the same: it's a cake that can be mixed, baked and served from the same bowl. It's as much, if not more, about what isn't required as what is: No need for multiple bowls; No need to cream the fat (e.g. butter, shortening or oil) with the sugar; No need to separate the eggs; No need to alternately add ingredients while simultaneously mixing; No need to use cake flour or othe...

Learning to make and decorate cakes that are as beautiful as they are delicious can be a challenge, but with the expert guidance of renowned confectionery artist Autumn Carpenter in First Time Cake Decorating, your goal is within reach. Are you an absolute beginner when it comes to cake decorating? Then help is at hand. Like having your very own instructor at your side, this book guides you carefully from your first nervous buttercream icing to confident gum paste accents. After a thorough d...

Discover cake POPs - a combination of moist cake and a sweet candy coating, moulded onto a lollipop stick and then decorated to create a whole host of characters. Clare O'Connell of the Pop Bakery teaches you all you need to know, from how to create the cake balls - a mouth-watering mixture of chocolate cake and icing - to dipping the cake balls in the special candy coating. Then she explains how to shape the POPs and paint them using cocoa butter. Choose from 25 delightful designs, including cu...