The Birthday Cake Book - Fiona Cairns New hardcover cookbook

THE BIRTHDAY CAKE BOOK

by FIONA CAIRNS

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New hardcover book with beautiful full-colour photos, templates and detailed instructions. 192 pages, published 2011.

In her latest book, Fiona Cairns turns her attention to birthdays, adding a touch of bling to her trademark pretty style. Every day of the year is someone's birthday, the chance to celebrate with close friends or family, or maybe an excuse for a larger bash. A birthday cake is the centrepiece, ablaze with candles, cut with a secret wish and shared to create precious memories. Many families have a treasured recipe, baked for every birthday. Perhaps you'll find a new family favourite in these pages.

Whether you are one or 100, a Goth or a gardener, there is the perfect cake for you here. The Birthday Cake Book has 52 new recipes and 61 cake decorations, including 16 cupcakes. Every recipe is delicious. Try the sensational masala chai cake with ginger fudge frosting, or a sophisticated pistachio, Grand Marnier and olive oil creation. Many require no sugarcraft skills at all. Fiona also gives five spectacular themed parties, from Vampires, with an eye-popping crystal skull cake, to Vintage Tea Party, with a super-realistic crocodile handbag cake. So bring a special gift to a birthday party, and get baking!

Cake, biscuit and slice flavours include:

• Cinnamon-orange gingerbread
• Chocolate shortbread
• Flourless lemon polenta cake with limoncello syrup
• All-in-one chocolate cake
• Spiced apple cake
• Blueberry yoghurt fairy cakes

Decorated cakes and biscuits include:

• Russian dolls
• Gingerbread cottage
• Eastern tile mosaic
• Chocolate dinosaurs
• Fantasy castle
• Toffee apple pops
• Pastel ice cream sandwiches

Themed Parties include:

• Vampire Party
• Vintage Tea Perty
• Alice In Wonderland's Unbirthday Party
• Glamping
• A Gardener's Delight

The Birthday Cake Book is a UK publication. Measurements are in metric and metric cup & spoon.

About the Author

Fiona Cairns made the cake for Prince William and Catherine Middleton's 2011 Royal Wedding. Her greatest innovation was the mimiature cake - since widely copied - and first sold to the COnran Shop while working from her kitchen table. Her company now bakes 750,000 exquisite cakes every year for Waitrose, Harrods, Selfridges, Fortnum & Mason and Le Bon Marche in Paris. She also makes Sir Paul McCartney's Christmas cake every year. Despite the fact that her bakery doubled in size in 2010, Fiona loves home baking and still makes cakes at home for friends and family. She lives in Leicestershire with her husband and two children. The Birthday Cake Book is her second book. Her first book, Bake and Decorate, was published in 2010.

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The Birthday Cake Book - Fiona Cairns