Michael Joseph Jamie's Food Tube: The Cake Book

This book looks mouth-wateringly delicious, I'm supposed to be trying to lose weight so part of me wishes I'd never ordered this but if I'm being honest I can't wait to get started. This, like the BBQ book has the recipe on one page with a full colour photo of the finished item on the opposite page, there's also a page of hints & tips. I spotted this book while looking around for a BBQ book for my husband, I can't remember the last time I bought myself a cookery book I generally get them as presents so I have a really good selection but I really liked the look of this. As with the BBQ book I noticed a complete content list wasn't given so I've added one at the end for you. I don't generally review cookery books since by the time I've tried enough of the recipes to give a fair review I forget, yes, every single time, I always have good intentions but somehow I never get round to it but I'm making an exception since I thought it would be helpful to give a list of the recipes included and I'll add to the review as I try them out. One tip I picked up from a friend years ago and I've followed ever since is to make little notes at the side of the recipes, I was horrified the first time I looked through one of her baking books to notice notes scribbled at the side of the recipes I couldn't believe anyone would write in a book, but she explained that you have a cookery book for life and you can forget so she wrote a little review at the side of each one. Turned out to be an excellent idea and one I've followed ever since, it really helps me because I've got a memory like a sieve so thank you Karen. Here's the list of recipes, hope this helps: THE BASICS: Vanilla Cupcakes, Vanilla Buttercream Icing Really Easy Chocolate Cupcakes, Chocolate Buttercream Icing Red Velvet Cupcakes, Cream Cheese Icing Chocolate Ganache Meringues Marshmallowy Meringue Icing Salted Caramel Brittle Infused Milk Fruit Goo SPRING: Earl Grey Breakfast Cupcakes Pistachio & Rose Cupcakes Raspberry Ripple Layer Cake Chocolate Guinness Cupcakes Green Tea Cupcakes with Sesame Brittle Lemon & Poppy Seed Cupcakes Cookie Dough Cupcakes Pistachio, Lime & Cardamom Cake Hot Cross Bun Cupcakes Vegan Vanilla Fudge Cupcakes SUMMER: Lemon Mess Cupcakes Blueberry Cheesecake Cupcakes Rosemary, Honey & Yoghurt Loaf Eton Mess Cupcakes Super-Lemony Meringue Cake Lavender Caramel Cupcakes Cherry Bakewell Cupcakes Cardamom & White Chocolate Cupcakes Raspberry & Coconut Cupcakes AUTUMN: Banoffee Pie Cupcakes Spiced Pumpkin Cupcakes PB & J Cupcakes Malteser Cupcakes Jamaican Ginger Cake Mexican Hot Chocolate Cupcakes Buttered Popcorn Cupcakes Bonfire Cupcakes Toffee Apple Cupcakes Caramel Mudslide Cupcakes WINTER: Hot Toddy Cupcakes Jaffa Cake Chai-Spiced Cupcakes Cookies & Cream Cupcakes Ridiculous Chocolate Cake Cinnamon Toast Cupcakes Banana, Maple & Pecan Cupcakes Velvet Volcano Cupcakes Christmas Cupcakes Mini Christmas Puds As a lover of Lemon, Coconut, Raspberries, Eton mess (my all time favourite) Maltesers oh the list goes on and on and I think this review is long enough already but I really don't know where to start, Super-Lemony Meringue Cake I think....or the Raspberry Ripple Layer Cake...decisions, decisions I can almost feel the weight settling on my hips just from thinking about them. ## Yes, I know as if this review isn't long enough already but I did promise updates I'll try to keep it short. We've made a selection of these cupcakes we use large muffin cases so the mixture when cooked only half fill them which turned out to be ideal once topped. One thing we found is that the topping recipes, all the ones we tried anyway made too much in fact we made the cheesecake topping and topped all the blueberry cupcakes and had so much left we added lemon juice and meringues and used it to cover the Lemon Mess ones as well. The Blueberry Cheesecake were my favourite and everyone else's as well, the biscuit base, sponge and then cheesecake with blueberry fruit goo topping was heaven. The Lemon Mess were very good even if we did change the topping. Raspberry and Coconut Cupcakes again were good but very sweet, maybe a little too much topping for me. We made our own Cookie Monster and Oreo cupcakes using the chocolate cupcake recipe from page 18, I loved it but my daughter felt it was too dry, luckily once they were decorated everyone loved them. If anyone's interested or even reading this far, for the Oreo ones we place a full Oreo cookie in the muffin case then we place mixture on top, bake and when cool we add broken Oreo cookies to the buttercream and mix well, we pipe this, using either a very large nozzle or just a plain piping bag made from grease proof, it has to be large obviously due to the chunks of biscuit, then place a mini Oreo at one side. For the Cookie Monster we top with buttercream then dip it in desiccated coconut mixed with some blue food colouring then we slice half way across horizontally and slide a chocolate chip cookie in, this makes the mouth then for the eyes we stand two white chocolate buttons on the top and paint the pupils on with black food colouring.

Un libro bellissimo e super consigliato sia per quanto riguarda il contenuto che l'impaginazione e le fotografie. La grafica è davvero bellissima, le ricette accattivanti, verrebbe voglia di provarle tutte e Jemma è bravissima a ideare ricette originali e a riproporle in modo chiaro (la si può trovare anche su YouTube). Ovviamente è un libro in inglese quindi serve una buona padronanza della lingua per poter comprendere le ricette.

Bought for my daughter and she loved it

It is a small book. Expected a bigger size for it was a gift

Las fotografías son muy bonitas, con lo que es muy agradable de ojear. Las recetas son siempre para 24 unidades, aunque yo lo hubiese preferido para 12. Lo ideal es apoyarse con su canal de Youtube para ver las elaboraciones, y utilizar el libro como consulta y así no tener que ver el video constantemente mientras practicas la receta en casa.