Boutique Baking: Delectable Cakes, Cupcakes and Teatime Treats: Delectable Cakes, Cookies and Teatime Treats - Hardcover

Peggy Porschen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1849491062 ISBN 13: 9781849491068

Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

Peggy Porschen is one of the most prominent and pioneering names in contemporary cake design. Renowned for her exquisite craftsmanship combined with a love of baking, her passion is for creating delectable works of art that taste as good as they look. This new book captures the essence of Peggy's technical skill and inspired use of colour while also ensuring that each cake is both achievable and delicious to eat. Boutique Baking has an unrivalled range of recipes that combines traditional baking with chic, simple finishing touches. The first chapter, Sweet Treats, features all-time favourites such as Meringue kisses and Macaroons as well as Peggy's take on Cake pops. In Beautiful Biscuits there are recipes inspired by her German origins including Gingerbread Men and Mulled Wine Stars. The third chapter focuses on the most desirable cake phenomenon of the decade - the cup cake, and Peggy gives away the secret of her incredibly scrumptious repertoire of gourmet cup cakes. The Luscious Layer Cake chapter provides stunning ideas for sophisticated occasions while Classic Cakes & Bakes shows how to revive traditional recipes, creating gorgeous looking and delicious cakes, such as Neapolitan marble cake and Chocolate Battenberg. Last but certainly not least the book closes with a chapter on fabulous finishing touches, basic recipes for frostings and fillings, and delicious ideas for home-made drinks that perfectly accompany the cakes. Seductive and indulgent, this is Peggy's most accessible book to date.

About this title

Review:

'Give your guests the sugar rush of homemade fancies with a little magic from baking guru Peggy Porschen' --You & Your Wedding, May 2012

A delicious selection of sweet treats
--Good Homes, May 2012

'The prettiest cakes imaginable fill the pages of this new title' --Sainsbury's, May 2012

'A slice of heaven' --The English Home, May 2012

'Featuring everything from big-occasion cakes to teatime favourites and all manner of finishing touches, this book will have you baking like a pro.' --Homes & Gardens, June 2012

'Peggy Porschen's cakes are fabulous confections of sugar flowers, baroque scrolls and swooping, piped designs' --The Lady, June 2012

About the Author:

Peggy Porschen moved from her native Germany to London in 1998 to study at Le Cordon Bleu cookery school. In 2003 she founded Peggy Porschen Cakes. Her cookies and cakes have graced many A-list events such as Elton John's White Tie & Tiara Ball, Stella McCartney's wedding, Damien Hirst's auction at Sotheby's and parties for Sting & Trudie Styler and Gwyneth Paltrow. Peggy is the exclusive wedding cake partner to Fortnum & Mason. Her first book Pretty Party Cakes was voted 'Best Entertaining Cook Book' by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. She also regularly contributes Conde Nast Brides, Wedding and Sainsbury's Magazine, with many of her celebrity commissions featuring in Tatler, OK! and HELLO magazine. Autumn 2010 saw the opening of the Peggy Porschen Parlour in London's Belgravia and in January 2011 she opened her Cake Academy, London's first cookery school entirely dedicated to baking, cake decorating and sugar craft. Author Location: London

About this edition

• Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1849491062
• ISBN 13: 9781849491068
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192