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The bestselling, hugely popular Hummingbird Bakery is back with a wonderful new collection of easy and delicious cupcakes, layer cakes, pies and cookies to suit all occasions in this beautiful book.
The Hummingbird Bakery has brought their mouth-watering yet easy-to-make cupcakes to kitchens everywhere and this time they show readers how to bake delicious cakes and other sweet delights for those days of the year that are just meant for indulgence - such as birthdays, Easter, Valentine's and Christmas - as well as those times when you just deserve a little treat.
This beautifully designed, lavishly photographed book takes you through the year to offer simple baking recipes suited to your favourite seasonal events or celebrations, plus inspired recipes that will encourage you into the kitchen even if there is no special occasion!
‘Cake Days: Recipes to Make Everyday Special’ not only includes the Hummingbird favourites that so many people have come to love, but many brand new ideas such as cocktail and fizzy pop cupcakes, flower-infused cupcakes and even coffee- and tea-flavoured cupcakes. Whether you fancy a classic Red Velvet, want to enjoy an Earl Grey cupcake with your cup of tea, or bake Lemonade cupcakes for a party, the Hummingbird Bakers will how you how easy it is to make fun and delicious cakes. In addition readers will find the Hummingbird's new whoopie pies, easy tray bakes, classic layer cakes, fruit pies and plenty of scrumptious cookies.
With a photograph for every recipe, plus tips and friendly advice, The Hummingbird Bakery's new cookbook is an essential and enjoyable addition to every kitchen.
From the Author
Q&A with Tarek Malouf:
1. What was the idea behind the naming of ‘The Hummingbird Bakery’?
The name just popped into my head one day. I love hummingbirds; colourful, agile birds that feast on sweet nectar. When the logo was designed, it all came together and seemed the perfect choice!
2. The new book The Hummingbird Bakery: Cake Days is filled with lots of delicious recipes. Where do you get your inspiration from to continue to develop new flavours and ideas for baking?
The Hummingbird Bakery team’s inspiration comes from everywhere and everyone! We all work closely to develop new flavours and discuss ideas. Sometimes certain flavours begin as suggestions, other times, from seeing something in day-to-day life. Our product development team then turns the ideas into reality.
3. What is the most outlandish flavour or design of cake anyone has requested?
We stick closely to our core flavours, so we don’t really do outlandish flavours! Our cake design style tends to be elegant and simple, less is more. We have had some requests for naughty messages on cakes throughout the years, probably best to leave those to your imagination!
4. When you have time, what’s your favourite thing to bake?
My friends and I recently made a soufflé from Julia Childs’ book, and it turned out beautifully! I don’t get to bake very often nowadays; I’m more about the eating!
5. What was your motivation to open the first Hummingbird Bakery?
There were no places in London to buy proper American desserts and cakes when I first got the idea. I thought that people would appreciate buying cupcakes, cakes and other goodies that had been freshly baked on site and individually hand decorated. It was certainly something that I wanted to be eating! So, I just jumped in and started work on opening my shop on Portobello Road.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Yummy yummy Hummy!,
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This review is from: The Hummingbird Bakery Cake Days: Recipes to make every day special (Hardcover)
Having been impressed by the Hummingbird Bakery produce before, I knew I had to pre-order this book to have a go myself. Having gotten the book a few days ago, I've been examining it lots, and even baking a few recipes, and I must say, this book is seriously yummy! I can't wait to be able to taste more of these delicious recipes!As for the recipes, there are lots of cupcakes (as expected) quite a few cakes and cheesecakes, plenty of loafs, bars and cookies, and several whoopie pies. As a nice surprise, there are also a few savoury muffin recipes. Some of their recipes have really intriguing combinations - how about a Beetroot and Chocolate Cupcake? Or maybe a Chocolate Guinness Cake? Or a Courgette, Walnut and Cinnamon Layer Cake? I'll definately will be trying these, just to try how these combinations work out. The recipes are not overly complicated, and as for levels some are pretty simple, and some increase in difficulty demanding several steps. Almost all of the ingredients are easily found in well-stocked supermarkets and if not, they can be substituted with something very similar (e.g. you can easily make a buttermilk substitute yourself). There are also some baking tips at the back for those with not that much experience. The only annoying thing I found with the book was the lay-out. The book is divided into holiday/special occasion -sections (e.g. Halloween, Mothers Day, Christmas...), and each sections has cupcakes, cakes, whoopie pies, loafs, savoury muffins etc. This makes it more difficult to find what you want to bake, and if you are looking for example different cupcakes you'd have to flip through the whole book to locate all the recipes. To me it would be more logical to have cupcakes in one section, cakes in another, whoopie pies in a third and so on. And if I'm nitpicking, the graphic design was done inconsistently, as some of the pictures have white frames and some don't. But this is a very minor point. Nonetheless, overall this is an inspiring book with yummy recipes!
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I love Hummingbird!,
This review is from: The Hummingbird Bakery Cake Days: Recipes to make every day special (Hardcover)
Like many other reviewers I pre-ordered this book, as I am a big fan of the first Hummingbird Cookbook and the Bakery itself. I have made many recipes from the previous book, particularly the chocolate cupcakes, which are always unbelievable and have gained me many a compliment! Also, they seem to keep really well, if you have to make a couple of days ahead.I made my first recipe from the new book yesterday, the caramel cupcakes, which have gone down a treat at home and at work. The sponge is unbelievably light and moist, which I find to be true with all Hummingbird cupcakes, and the frosting delicious but super sweet! I also made the apricot crucnchies. The recipe suggests leaving the sultanas and apricots in the juice for 5 minutes. I, ahem, went out for a walk with my dog, so half an hour later, the fruit had absorbed all the juice which I think might have effected my results, which despite tasting superb, lacked the crunch described in the name. My fault though, and actually my apricot flapjack (this name represents mine!) is delicious anyway, so not a problem. Recipes in this cookbook often suggest just mixing until combined and warn not to over mix, I would suggest you follow this advice, especially when using a kitchen aid or similar rather than a electric mixer, as it can be easy to leave the mixer running too long. In my experience cupcakes don't have the lovely light, moist texture I've come to expect if overly mixed. I am looking forward to trying out further recipes, particularly the whoopie pies, intrigued to see how they turn out in comparison to the ones I have made from 'Whoopie Pies' (Billingsley and Treadwell) and those I have tried in store. I think this book is ideal for both beginner and experienced bakers looking for some different recipes, with an American baking influence, without the cup measurements and hard to find ingredients. Recipes are clear, the book very pretty. I do agree with other reviewers that perhaps fabric wasn't the best choice of adornment (recipe book stand/savers - clear plastic stand, where the books sits behind a sheet of plastic which saves the pages, are pretty great and pretty cheap too would solve this, and are actually great for saving all recipe books); and the chapters are a bit bizarre, devision by product would be more useful, although I understand the concept, which relates to the title, I think some would find having to flick through to the right page/check the index for a particular recipe's page number/checking through the whole book to pick a recipe, as opposed to just picking a product a bit annoying sometimes. Overall, buy this book, and enjoy the treats!
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hummingbird - not just perfect cup cakes,
By David Hughes "Nikonusa" (Bristol, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Hummingbird Bakery Cake Days: Recipes to make every day special (Hardcover)
My daughter and I had great fun with the Hummingbird cup cake book so it was inevitable that we would preorder this one. Were we disappointed? Not at all! We were impressed by the cup cake book because all you need do is follow the simple recipes and you'd be rewarded with incredibly good cup cakes and muffins. Now the guys at Hummingbird show they are not one trick ponies and make a wide range of cakes - including some great new cup cake recipes - available to the rest of us.As before the recipes are detailed but simple to follow and I'd doubt there's a single taste that is not catered for. So many recipe books are a bit like music albums. There's one or two great hits and a whole load of album-filler tracks. Well this book bucks that trend. I'll doubt we'll do every recipe but there's not a duff one amongst them. So five stars? No, not quite. If I could I'd mark it down half a star. Why? It comes down to the book itself. It's produced to very high standards and it's half bound in cloth - the pink bit in the illustration. Looks great but after our first outing in the kitchen it got soiled with flour and butter. A wipe clean version may not be as impressive, but would be more practical. Still the recipes are out of this world!
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