Publication Date: 12/03/2015 ISBN: 9780224098502 Category:

The Violet Bakery Cookbook

Claire Ptak

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Date: 12/03/2015 ISBN: 9780224098502 Category:
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Description

This book is about making baking worth it: simple to cook and satisfying to eat. Wholesome and indulgent – these are recipes you’ll want to make again and again.

The Violet Bakery is a cake shop and cafe in Hackney, east London. The baking is done with simple ingredients including wholegrain flours, less refined sugars and the natural sweetness and muted colours of seasonal fruits. Everything is made in an open kitchen for people to see. Famed for its exquisite baked goods, Violet has become a destination.

Owner Claire Ptak uses her Californian sensibility to devise recipes that are both nourishing and indulgent. With real thought about taste and using the purest ingredients, she has created the most flavoursome iterations of classic cakes, as well as new treats for modern palates.

Discover the recipes behind the bakery that made Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding cake.

Over 100 recipes include Cinnamon Buns, Mozzarella, Rosemary and New Potato Tarts, Butterscotch Blondies and Loganberry-vanilla Birthday Cake.

Publisher Review

Wholesome to cook and satisfying to eat, with cakes that both taste great and feel good - this is a cookbook for today's baker * Mummy Pages * Wholesome and indulgent - these are recipes you'll want to make again and again * So Darling * British baking with an American twist -- Holly Cole * Fine Dining Lovers * You could call it cakes for hipsters, except that it's so uncompromising in ingredients, so lavish with the good stuff and so keen on making the taste worth the calories, it stands out from the rest -- Melanie McDonagh * Evening Standard * Our new favourite baking tome * Hello! Fashion Monthly * Full of imaginative flavor combinations * Stylist * With sweets that are both nutritious and indulgent, the cookbook infused with California cool is sure to be a crowd pleaser -- Reenat Sinay * Evening Standard * This is a lip-smacking collection of classic cakes and new interpretations for the discerning modern home baker * Crumbs * The book presents the food with beguiling honesty, in beautiful photos by Kristin Perers, and the recipes turn out true to the pictures. -- Cliodhna Prendergast * Sunday Times * A treasure trove of recipes * Waitrose Kitchen * An inspirational new baking book * Nigel Slater * [Ptak's] recipes are thoroughly modern and celebrate simplicity, seasonality and great taste... This book deserved to have its pages smudged with butter and dusted with flour -- Roopa Gulati, 5 stars * Time Out * There is a little something for anyone with a sweet tooth -- Violet Henderson * Vogue * Claire is one of my all-time favourite cake-makers, and all her baking is seasonal, beautiful, achievable, real and of course, totally delicious * Jamie Oliver * Timeless elegance with a modern approach to flavours ... This book is a timeless classic in the offing -- Dale Berning Sawa * Guardian *

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