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Red Velvet Chocolate Heartache: The ultimate feel-good book of natural cakes that taste naughty [Hardcover]

Harry Eastwood (Author)
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Publication Date: 16 July 2009

Harry Eastwood loves cake: from light, fluffy Victoria Sponge to dark and delicious Forbidden Chocolate Brownies. In Red Velvet & Chocolate Heartache, she has fiddled, tweaked and thought outside the box to pioneer a way of bringing exquisite cakes that remain natural and healthy into our everyday lives - by introducing ingredients from the vegetable garden. Ginger Sticky Toffee Pudding made with parsnip, or Orange Squash Cupcakes made with butternut squash are bound to amuse and delight your tastebuds.

In this spirited cookery book, Harry shares her baking secrets and practical knowledge as a cook and as a food writer to prove that it is possible to have your cake and eat it.

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  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Press; First Edition edition (16 July 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0593062361
  • ISBN-13: 978-0593062364
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 2.8 x 25.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (192 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,643 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"An impressive conjuring trick - come-hither cakes that are positively good for you... Eastwood delivers gorgeous results" (Mail on Sunday )

"Bound to amuse and delight your tastebuds. Harry proves you can have your cake and eat it!" (Easy Living )

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110 of 110 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous cakes... once you get the hang of them 30 Mar 2010
By Blue Porcupine
Format:Hardcover
This is a beautiful book with beautiful recipes. The cakes, on the whole, are absolutely gorgeous. I cannot stress enough how they do not taste of vegetable at all, as I've sometimes found with other "healthy" cakes. My boyfriend bought me this as a present (clever fellow that he is!) and until I read the introduction neither of us realised it was a "healthy cooking" kind of book. Certainly doesn't taste like it.

Only a couple of cautions (I can't call them faults, the book is too enchanting):

I've tried two chocolate recipes so far (the chocolate and peanut butter cupcakes and chocolate chocolate chip cupcakes) and while they've been perfectly adequate little cakes, I wouldn't say I swooned with the rich chocolatiness of them. You'd have to swathe them in icing to get quite the same hit as you do from, say, some of Nigella's indulgent chocolate recipes. Having said that I am an unreconstructed lover of good old British milk-and-sugar chocolate, so it's possible these recipes are a bit subtle for my palate!

Second point (and I wish someone had told me this when I started making the cakes) is one about timing and ingredients. Harry insists you shouldn't grate the vegetables "until you are about to add them to the mixture." This is all very well, but hard vegetables like potatoes, butternut squash etc can take ten minutes to reduce to a fine shred by hand (she won't let you food process them either), by which time the eggs and sugar you've just whisked have lost a bit of their fluff.

By trial and error I've found that what Harry calls the "woody" vegetables (potatoes, carrots, parsnip, beetroot etc) can be safely grated before you start the whisking. They can cope with sitting for 5 minutes without getting damp.... Read more ›
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58 of 59 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars no heartache, it's all good. 31 July 2009
By speffypie
Format:Hardcover
Harry Eastwood, from the great `cook yourself thin' series and books, has really done something truly incredible with this book. Never have I seen such a barmy list of ingredients going into such glorious looking cakes. It makes me smile to see a simple Victoria sponge now containing grated potato and positively gawk at the thought of beetroot and chocolate fudge or parsnip vanilla fudge. Following Eastwood's method it makes one wonder if parents everywhere have just discovered an ingenious way of getting vegetables into even the most stubborn of children.
Get past the pretty looking cakes and even the unusual ingredients and you will see that what Harry Eastwood has actually done is really rather splendid. This is a book dedicated to the glory of decadent eating but with a clear goal that it shouldn't come at the expense of our waistlines. Harry has cut back on the quantities of sugar and fat used, these are both balanced out by the addition of ground almonds, high in natural fat, and vegetables that help maintain that perfect sponge texture. Plus, nearly all of her recipes are made with a mixture of rice flour and ground almonds, which means that people who are unlucky enough to have wheat intolerances are not missed out in the cake gluttony which follows.
Being a massive Agatha Christie fan, I was thrilled to find a homage to the much lamented seed cake for which Miss Marple requests in the `At Bertram's Hotel' novel. In my slightly nerdy fashion, i had for a time been looking for a good seed cake recipe and can say that this one is truly joyous.
I really am impressed with this book; it covers a lot of cakey issues one might have, dieting and food intolerances or what to do with all those courgettes you've accidently grown and comes up trumps time and again.... Read more ›
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55 of 58 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Let them eat cake 20 July 2009
By D. Robinson
Format:Hardcover
I would strongly recommend this book for people who don't eat wheat. The cakes taste like normal cakes but use vegetables instead of wheat.I bought it last week and we had a try at one of the recipes over the weekend. The recipes are easy to follow and have lots of helpful hints.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazingly brilliantly wonderful! Thanks Harry 27 Aug 2009
By Lullaby
Format:Hardcover
Wow, I can't believe these recipies. I've made butternut squash muffins in the past, and the general opinion seems to be: "hmm, bit odd but ok for a cake with a vegetable in".
Not so with these cakes, they are *AMAZING!* So far I've tried the vanilla cupcakes with courgette and the brownies with beetroot. The brownies are unbelievable. Much tastier than Jamie Olivers, with less than half the amount of chocolate and sugar and no added fat! Amazing! And they don't come with quite such a massive side order of guilt which is always nice!
This is a really lovely book, looks good on the shelf - cutely writter and the recipes are very detailed and specific so no guess work required = more perfect cakes.
Highly recommended by me! Thanks Harry!!
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars J'adore ! 19 Aug 2009
By Clementine
Format:Hardcover
I have been making bread with various vegetables for years but my experience with (vegetable) cakes was limited to carrot cakes, courgette loaves + one beetroot chocolate cake, not too bad maybe but when I saw this book was going to be published I just couldn't wait to lay my hands on it and greedily devour it.

Well, Harry Eastwood, hats off! You have exceeded all my expectations, and yes, they were pretty high...

This book is delightful to look at, to read and last but not least of course to bake from.

The photos are great, the layout is clear and I really enjoyed the cute introductions to each recipe as well as the "Trust me tips" which, added to the detailed explanations given in the recipes proper, guide us smoothly through the whole process, making sure the results are topnotch and they truly are !
The icing on the cake for me was the cake diaries (ie: the development of the recipes with its highs and lows) which I found both interesting and entertaining.

Once again Harry hats off for all the research that has gone into this gorgeous book, it was well worth it...I could wax lyrical about it for quite some time but I guess it is better to let the cakes speak for themselves (although they won't tell you about their mystery vegetable ingredient ;-))

J'adore!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely love this book.
I thought I'd give this book ago,am always looking for healthier alternatives.made the banana and cinnamon bread,was lovely.scone recipes are very good. Read more
Published 7 days ago by Lizzy
5.0 out of 5 stars Great for wheat free eaters
Even though the stuff she writes in between the recipes is a load of nonsense, Harry Eastwood's actual recipes are great.
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This is a very exciting book to work with and each recipe is intriguing with its ingredients! I have enjoyed cooking a few of these and had great results with most ! Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful!
I love this book.
I have tried a few recipes and using the vegetables adds depth and flavour. I would shred them as finely as possible so as not to get claggy bits of a root... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Cakes & Wheat Free
I've had this book a week and have already made 2 wonderful cakes that the family love. And the best thing is - they are wheat free and have vegetables in, although you'd never... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Lynn
5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely different cakes and Wheat Free!
Lovely cakes, need a little more time with grating vegetables but the results have been stunning. Using Rice Flour mostly it provides lovely cakes for people who have to avoid... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Jill
5.0 out of 5 stars People love me more when I make these cakes..
I love this book! I've made the Chocolate Heartache (numerous times) and been told that it's better than a p***s!
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This book changed my life. A book of cakes made without wheat, fat and reduced sugar for Coeliac me? This has my name printed all over it. Read more
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