The Violet Bakery Cookbook

Wholesome and indulgent - these are recipes you'll want to make again and again.

Timeless elegance with a modern approach to flavours ... This book is a timeless classic in the offing

Claire is one of my all-time favourite cake-makers, and all her baking  is seasonal, beautiful, achievable, real and of course, totally  delicious

There is a little something for anyone with a sweet tooth

[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

The book presents the food with beguiling honesty, in beautiful photos by Kristin Perers, and the recipes turn out true to the pictures.

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

With sweets that are both nutritious and indulgent, the cookbook infused with California cool is sure to be a crowd pleaser

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

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

Wholesome to cook and satisfying to eat, with cakes that both taste great and feel good – this is a cookbook for today's baker

With a recent trend towards healthy baking, Ptak’s book gets the balance right. She uses wholegrains and the natural sweetness of fruit in her recipes, but there’s also just the right amount of decadence

A wonderful baking bible for the modern home cook – an instant classic!

A work of beauty. These gorgeous recipes are lovely and nourishing – you’ll want to stay home baking all day

Sumptuous, mouthwatering… Her book is well worth a look

A California native, in 2005 Claire Ptak moved to London, where she opened the Violet Bakery in 2010. In 2018, she was commissioned to make the wedding cake for Prince Harry and Megan Markle's wedding cake. Before moving to London, Claire worked as a pastry chef for Alice Waters at Chez Panisse. Claire is also a food writer and stylist who has worked with Ottolenghi and Jamie Oliver, the latter of whom called her 'his favourite cake-maker in the whole world'. Her work has appeared in a wide array of publications including Vogue, the Gentlewoman and the New York Times. She has published four cookbooks before Love is a Pink Cake: The Home-Made Sweet Shop, Leon: Happy Baking, The Whoopie Pie Book and The Violet Bakery Cookbook.

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.

The Whoopie Pie Book

Meet the new cupcake - whoopie pies. These delicious little treats are baking's latest trend.

An absolutely gorgeous book by my favourite cake maker in the whole world

Move aside cupcakes, whoopie pies are all the rage now

The cupcake is dead. Long live the whoopie!

Chic and sweet, the whoopie pie has landed. Cupcakes are so last season

Claire Ptak is a California pastry chef who moved to London in 2005 after working at Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California. She owns Violet, a baking company in East London which supplies her popular Broadway Market stall and is best known for its American-style cupcakes with buttercream frostings that change with the seasons. Violet now is also a café and cake shop where whoopie pies have become a much-loved fixture. www.violetcakes.com.

Chocolate chip with chocolate marshmallow. 
Raspberry and nectarine with vanilla bean. 
Red velvet with old-fashioned buttercream 
 
Welcome to the irresistible world of the whoopie pie. These delicious little delights, which hail originally from America, are baking's latest trend. 
 
With over 60 mouthwatering recipes this is a Whoopie-baker's bible. It has treats for every occasion including seasonal flavours like rhubarb with vanilla custard, indulgent treats like pumpkin with cream cheese, and cute party snacks like mocha-orange with espresso cream. It even includes alternative sandwich-cookie recipes such as chocolate macaroons and peanut butter cookies. 
 
Find out what all the fuss is about with The Whoopie Pie Book.

Claire Ptak

Love is a Pink Cake

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