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The Hummingbird Bakery Cake Days: Recipes To Make Every Day Special (2011)

by Tarek Malouf(Favorite Author)

4.41 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0007374798 (ISBN13: 9780007374793)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Collins Publishers

review 1: A beautiful and jam packed recipe book by the famous Hummingbird Cafe. It holds an array of tantalising American baked treats. As a book, it is beautiful and bright with thick pages and generous full length photographs of the completed items. The recipes are simple with easy to follow instructions. On the most part the recipes do not call for bizarre/obscure ingredients that are hard to track down (find that some cookery books are guilty of that). The hints and tips section at the end of the book is very good, especially for someone who is just getting into baking. The book is split into nine sections. This is a nice touch as it allows you to bake for the season/specific occasion. The sections are as follows:- Valentines Day, Spring Weekend Bakes, Mother & Father's... more Day, Easter, Summer Afternoon Tea, Birthdays and Celebrations, Rainy Day Treats, Halloween and Bonfire Night and Christmas. My favourite is the rainy days one. As I live in Scotland there are far too many rainy days, what is better to do on one of those than bake! The recipes there, tend to be lovely warming ones, which is right up my street. I received this book as a gift and is a fantastic recipe book which I definitely recommend. It has something for everyone including healthier bakes, very quirky ideas and combinations (fancy some coca cola cupcakes?!), loafs, bars, whole cakes and also small cakes. A taste of the USA in your very own kitchen.Recipe Highlights- Cherry Cupcakes, Gingerbread Muffins,Walnut and Honey Loaf, Spiced Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Frosting, Pistachio Whoopie Pies and Chocolate Fondant Cupcakes
review 2: I was left slightly disappointed by this cookbook. The recipes are delicious, and they are also fairly easy to follow. It's all very fashionable.And that was my problem. There was nothing ground breaking flavour-wise. There wasn't anything that I stopped and went "Oh my, I HAVE to make these IMMEDIATELY". If you're after a book to start you on your way to cupcake supremacy, I can only recommend this book. But if you want something a little more dramatic, I'd go it alone. less

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