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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.

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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.

About the Author

Tarek Malouf was born in London and studied at London and Los Angeles universities, where he discovered American desserts. After working for ABC News in the UK and enjoying American desserts on trips to the USA, he decided to set up The Hummingbird Bakery on Portobello Road. The Bakery's home-cooked cupcakes, pies, brownies and other high-quality American desserts were a huge success and the Bakery now has branches in South Kensington and Soho. Visit the website at www.hummingbirdbakery.com.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Collins (17 Mar. 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0007374798
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0007374793
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.1 x 2.5 x 24.6 cm

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Customers find the recipes easy to follow and the pictures clear. They appreciate the variety of cake recipes, with different sections for different bakes like cakes, cookies, loafs, bars, and cookies. The book is useful for their collection and well worth the money.

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134 customers mention ‘Recipes accuracy’131 positive3 negative

Customers find the recipes in the book easy to follow and understand. They appreciate the clear instructions and accompanying photos. The cakes are delicious and the book introduces them to a world of scrumptious English food with amazing flavors.

"...already tried a number of the recipes and reports that they were easy to follow and produced excellent, attractive results, and she now finds her..." Read more

"...The recipes are not overly complicated, and as for levels some are pretty simple, and some increase in difficulty demanding several steps...." Read more

"...As before the recipes are detailed but simple to follow and I'd doubt there's a single taste that is not catered for...." Read more

"...This book certainly doesn't dissapoint, with easy to follow recipes and great photography this is a fantastic addition to any cooks collection, from..." Read more

48 customers mention ‘Beauty’39 positive9 negative

Customers enjoy the book's photography and illustrations. They find the recipes easy to follow and tasty.

"...were greatly impressed with the imaginative range of recipes, and the stunning photography." Read more

"...Looks great but after our first outing in the kitchen it got soiled with flour and butter...." Read more

"...Plus the vibrant pink book cover looks great on the bookcase!..." Read more

"...It can't be faulted on presentation. It looks beautiful and as you flick through it makes you want to try and cook everything in it..." Read more

29 customers mention ‘Value for money’29 positive0 negative

Customers find the book provides good value for money. They say it's a good buy, with wonderful recipes and great variety. It is a well-used book for muffins, cupcakes, and other baked goods.

"...another cookbook but overall this is a brilliant book and well worth every penny it cost." Read more

"...Worth the purchase. As always well packaged and received in good order." Read more

"...In all honesty, this is the best book I have ever seen for baking - it is a long time since I have been this enthusiastic about a cook book...." Read more

"...The cakes have also had fantastic feedback from friends! Highly recommend this book, would be a great present :)" Read more

24 customers mention ‘Photo quality’24 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the book's photos. They find the pictures clear and helpful for following instructions. The book includes 250 pages of photography that brings the recipes to life.

"...impressed with the imaginative range of recipes, and the stunning photography." Read more

"...certainly doesn't dissapoint, with easy to follow recipes and great photography this is a fantastic addition to any cooks collection, from the..." Read more

"...The recipes are clearly explained and the accompanying photos are very helpful...." Read more

"...Over 250 pages of fantastic Photography bringing these recipes to life...." Read more

21 customers mention ‘Cake recipes’21 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the cake recipes in the book. They find the cakes are great to bring to parties, with a great selection of cakes and cookies for all occasions. The red velvet cupcakes and carrot cake whoopie pies are their mom's favorite. The cakes turn out well without too much difficulty in making them. Many customers are fans of Hummingbird Bakery and own every cookbook they have produced.

"...mother and lots of practice on her family has developed into a first class cake maker, which perhaps accounts for continued presence of the father..." Read more

"...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...." Read more

"...Every single cake has turned out! And everyone raves about the cakes. Everyone is just waiting for the next bake...." Read more

"...- don't get me wrong, I can cook and bake but this book was interesting just to read and to give me some ideas to the cakes I already make...." Read more

8 customers mention ‘Ingredients’8 positive0 negative

Customers like the ingredients and recipes. They find the ingredients readily available and easy to follow, with helpful instructions for unusual ones. Some of the recipes have intriguing combinations like beetroot and chocolate cupcakes. The instructions are clear and the ingredients are easily found worldwide.

"...Some of their recipes have really intriguing combinations - how about a Beetroot and Chocolate Cupcake? Or maybe a Chocolate Guinness Cake?..." Read more

"...I also like the fact that most ingredients are easy to find internationally...." Read more

"...Lots of the recipes have many ingredients and I would advise following them exactly as the order in which to use ingredients is very sepcific!..." Read more

"...Follow the recipe exactly and you cant go wrong. Ingredients are readily available, and recipes easy to follow...." Read more

6 customers mention ‘Variety’6 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the variety of recipes in the book. They find it has different sections that go through the year with different bakes, including cakes, cheesecakes, loafs, bars, and cookies.

"...lots of cupcakes (as expected) quite a few cakes and cheesecakes, plenty of loafs, bars and cookies, and several whoopie pies...." Read more

"The recipes in here are really super, there is so much choice I almost don't know where to start!..." Read more

"...It has different sections which goes through the year with different bakes...." Read more

"...there's even more in this with alot more variety like cookies, cake bars and loads more, definitely use it more often than not if i'm baking!" Read more

4 customers mention ‘Book value’4 positive0 negative

Customers find the book useful for their baking collection and a valuable addition to their bookcase. They love the chocolate Guinness cake recipe.

"...This is a good addition to your bookshelf if you love to bake...." Read more

"...some stranger flavour combos so much order the others, but useful for the collection" Read more

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"Used this book loads. We love the chocolate Guinness cake, amazing!" Read more

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SETS THE STANDARDS IN THE UK
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 March 2011
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Tarek Malouf was inspired by The Magnolia Bakery in New York City, 'the spiritual home' of the modern day take on cup cakes. Having visited this revered establishment several times over the last few years, I have become accustomed to joining a fairly long line of anticipatory customers snaking way from the shop doorway down West 11th Street.

The author was persuaded by his NYC based sister to open a similar establishment in London in 2004 and now has two shops, the first in Portobello Road, and secondly in South Kensington. In a short time he had built up a fervent following including celebrities such as Elle Macpherson and Claudio Schiffer just to mention two beautiful bodies which, ironically do not seem to have undergone too much 'cup cake' abuse. What is their secret I wonder?

This book was purchased for one of our married daughters with 5 children and the original husband still in attendance, who with good initial training from her mother and lots of practice on her family has developed into a first class cake maker, which perhaps accounts for continued presence of the father of her children. She was thrilled with the book and has already tried a number of the recipes and reports that they were easy to follow and produced excellent, attractive results, and she now finds her children going through the book and turning over the pages of cakes they like the look of. Apparently there have been lots and lots of turned down pages.

The 5 star rating was the opinion of my daughter. Certainly before we passed the book over to her, we had a good look through and were greatly impressed with the imaginative range of recipes, and the stunning photography.

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Yummy yummy Hummy!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 March 2011
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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!

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David Hughes
Hummingbird - not just perfect cup cakes
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 March 2011
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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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Sand
beautiful and sweet!
Reviewed in India on 18 May 2017
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I have Malouf's other book, and I liked it so much, that had decided to order this one as well. recommended for avid bakers

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Livre de recette cupcakes et cakes
Reviewed in France on 7 November 2015
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Ce livre est un super livre de recettes comportant plein d'idées de gateaux, cupcakes, cakes montés et cakes. ,! k

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Mac
Otro capricho necesario
Reviewed in Spain on 12 May 2014
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para las que amamos esta repostería. Las mismas características de buen hacer marca de la casa tanto en edición como en recetas, diferentes a sus otros libros. No hay miedo de comprar creyendo derrochar dinero por encontrar lo mismo.
Este ofrece propuestas "más caseras", más cakes y menos filigranas, pero igual de apetitosos, siguiendo las estaciones y las fiestas señaladas del calendario anglosajón, claro, pero tan versátiles que son adaptables a cualquier momento.
Añade a cada episodio recetas tradicionales absolutamente norteamericanas muy curiosas.
Tiene unos cupcakes de chocolate fondant espectaculares.
Hay que tenerlo!!

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Fittbean
Amazing recipes with numerous pictures
Reviewed in Canada on 17 October 2012
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Another great hummingbird bakery cookbook. The recipes are easy to make and there are various pictures of the different yummy recipes. Only thing that would help is if the measurements were also listed in cup and tablespoon quantities. Can't wait for the next book.

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K. H. F. Chisholm-Rose
Oh my! Cake nirvana!
Reviewed in the United States on 6 January 2012
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If you only ever buy one cake book this has to be it! I have made cupcakes in the past but theyve never been amazing. I just made the sticky toffee cupcakes and Im absolutely amazed everyone of them is perfect, light and they taste amazing. I have never been moved enough by a book to write a review but this one is certainly it. I bought it on kindle to read on my fire - the pictures are perfect and its easy to read. Next to make are the gingerbread cupcakes although maybe could be chocolate, there are so many beautiful but seriously easy recipes here. I have a kitchenaid so i suppose its just 'point and go' but it really was super easy with delicious results. Thank you Hummingbird Bakery.

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