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The Violet Bakery Cookbook Hardcover – 12 Mar. 2015

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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 café 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.

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12 Mar. 2015
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17.5 x 3 x 25.2 cm
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Timeless elegance with a modern approach to flavours ... This book is a timeless classic in the offing -- Dale Berning Sawa ― Guardian

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

There is a little something for anyone with a sweet tooth -- Violet Henderson ― Vogue

[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

An inspirational new baking book ― Nigel Slater

A treasure trove of recipes ― Waitrose Kitchen

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

This is a lip-smacking collection of classic cakes and new interpretations for the discerning modern home baker ― Crumbs

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

Full of imaginative flavor combinations ― Stylist

Our new favourite baking tome ― Hello! Fashion Monthly

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

British baking with an American twist -- Holly Cole ― Fine Dining Lovers

Wholesome and indulgent – these are recipes you’ll want to make again and again ― So Darling

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

About the Author

A California native, Claire Ptak worked as a pastry chef for Alice Waters at Chez Panisse in Berkeley before moving to London in 2005. She staged in restaurants including Moro and St. John before starting Violet, her stall on Broadway Market in east London. Claire opened the Violet Bakery in 2010. Jamie Oliver said Claire is ‘his favourite cake maker in the whole world’. Claire is also a food writer and stylist whose work includes Ottolenghi’s weekly Guardian column, Observer Food Monthly, Jamie Magazine, Kinfolk, and Vogue. She has published three cookbooks, The Home-Made Sweet Shop, The Whoopie Pie Bookand Leon: Baking & Puddings.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Square Peg (12 Mar. 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0224098500
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0224098502
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.5 x 3 x 25.2 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 34,476 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 114 in Cake Baking
- 356 in Restaurant Cookbooks
- 6,406 in Home & Garden (Books)

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I am Claire Ptak, an American pastry chef living in London. I founded and run the Violet Bakery in East London and I am also a food stylist, prop stylist, and columnist for the Guardian newspaper. I have written 4 cookbooks and am constantly coming up with new ideas and recipes for my column and for my bakery. I also have a podcast called Violet Sessions where my friend the broadcaster Danielle Radojcin and I interview women who are doing enviable jobs about how they got there and what makes them tick. We also find out what their favourite cake is in the process. Formerly of Chez Panisse restaurant in California, I moved to London in 2005 and founded Violet Cakes as a market stall featuring delicious, American-style cakes and treats made with seasonal, natural, and organic ingredients. Then in 2010, I opened Violet, my acclaimed bakery and café in Hackney. Violet has been featured in British Vogue, American Vogue, Timeout, the New York Times, Bon Appetit, Food and Wine, Savour and the Wall Street Journal. Fashion Blogger Susie Bubble visited Violet on Monki TV and Jamie Oliver calls me his "favourite cake maker in the whole world".

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mahreen khan

great mix of recipes

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 February 2023

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Some unusual but welcome twists. Packed full of recipes you would actually want to eat. Not fiddly to make recipes.

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Gift - told it was ok but not what expected

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Sophia Real

... Cookbook came out and before Claire Ptak had her wonderful column in the Guardian (which I sorely miss) I ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 September 2017

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I no longer live in London so until the Violet Bakery Cookbook came out and before Claire Ptak had her wonderful column in the Guardian (which I sorely miss) I could only admire her creations from afar. Thanks to the book I can now replicate these at home. And what a beautiful book it is. The beautiful photographs, clearly styled but so effortless in result. The recipes - her Chez Panisse pedigree clearly showing - unfussy and flavour forward, making the most of the seasonal bounty. I love that she is not shy to use alternative grain flours, but explains why she does so. And the recipes I have tried to so far (the gingersnap cookies, the prune and earl grey scones (terrific), the double yolk chocolate chip cookies, the ginger loaf, the Kamut cookies, the rye brownies) have all worked beautifully and were a great hit with friends and colleagues.

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The Violet Bakery Cookbook

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I bought this book after I'd found a recipe from this book online. I liked the recipe so much that I bought the book!
I'm glad I did. The recipes are somewhat rustic in style with a slightly Californian feel due to the Author being American but its a lovely book, lots of pictures and it is a book which I will use again and again.

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Catriona Hosie

New favourite

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 April 2015

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I visit Broadway market regularly and have sampled quite a few of Violet Bakery's cakes so was excited when I heard about her book and try and recreate some favourites at home. I've already made quite a few things and all have worked well and been popular. Each recipe seems to have its own twist making it a bit different to the norm. My boyfriend was excited to see so many savoury bakes and it is refreshing. I also like that she uses a variety of flours in her recipes beyond plain and self-raising - the rye brownies are a new favourite!
The layout of the book is pleasant with different bakes for different times of day so you could find something for any occasion or any excuse! Great photos as well but not surprising given her background.

This book has added somethinf new to my collection and I'm keen to try more.

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nuthunny

It's inspiring

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 July 2020

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Absolutely love this book and it's inspired me to do so much more baking. During lock down I've done quite a lot of baking but this has given me so much more to try out. Beautifully illustrated and the journey it's taken to get where they are today is pure joy. Well done and when it's safe and you are open I look forward to making a visit. I do hope the covid pandemic has not hit you too hard.

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Sandra Rushton

This book is a delight. Lovely just to read the background story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 April 2015

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This book is a delight. Lovely just to read the background story! Ptak's CV is impressive. Have only made a few things so far. Very moreish they were too but oooooh the sugar!!!
It's a book for special treats rather than an everyday cookbook but what I love about it is its individual twists on familiar classics as well as new creations. Temptingly imaginative baking which actually works though, as she herself advises, you need to know the idiosyncrasies of your own oven and perhaps make adjustments.
Keep intending to bake for the freezer but so far nothing has made it there.
Glad I don't live in Hackney. Would be fat and broke.

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J. Griffin

I plan on making every single recipe from this book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 May 2015

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It has been a long time since I have been as excited by a baking/cookery book, as I am with this one. The styling is beautiful and from the introduction it is clear that the book has been written by a knowledgable and talented baker. So far I have cooked two quiches: roasted tomato and sweetcorn; and roasted butternut squash with sage and brown butter. I have never tasted quiche like them, they were wonderful. I have also been very happy with the apricot polenta muffins, the ginger cake and delighted with the yeast-free Cinnamon buns. It is highly likely I will make more of the recipes, if not all of them.

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