Like many others, due to allergies, I had to rethink conventional techniques in the kitchen. I started creating new recipes with alternative ingredients, aiming to make a tiered cake that showcased thoughtful choices and beautiful designs. By avoiding processed ingredients, I achieved delicate, moist textures with rich flavors and colors. Working with alternative ingredients keeps me inspired by nature, which I love—it's all about creativity and exploration, using perishable ingredients to create edible sculptures. I owe my journey and ability to experiment to past mentors who taught me about unique flavor pairings and creative baking techniques. Their guidance was essential to my journey and the creation of my cookbook.
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Pure Artistry: Extraordinary Vegan & Gluten-Free Cakes
This book is a valuable resource for chefs and beginner cooks. It has changed how I think about recipes by showing many flavor combinations. The book is organized alphabetically by different ingredients, such as spices, nuts, herbs, fruits, and vegetables. For each ingredient, it features unique flavor pairings. I find it essential for my personal and professional cooking.
Its main goal is to highlight the many ways to pair ingredients, inspiring creativity in the kitchen. Whenever I need new ideas for pairing, I turn to this book. As someone who develops recipes and enjoys creating unique dishes, I believe this book is timeless.
Great cooking goes beyond following a recipe--it's knowing how to season ingredients to coax the greatest possible flavor from them. Drawing on dozens of leading chefs' combined experience in top restaurants across the country, Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg present the definitive guide to creating "deliciousness" in any dish.
Thousands of ingredient entries, organized alphabetically and cross-referenced, provide a treasure trove of spectacular flavor combinations. Readers will learn to work more intuitively and effectively with ingredients; experiment with temperature and texture; excite the nose and palate with herbs, spices, and other seasonings; and balance the sensual, emotional, and spiritual elements…
This book quickly became a source of inspiration for playing with vegan and gluten-free desserts. It offers a wide range of recipes, including cookies, bread, cakes, and pies. I was particularly impressed by the experimentation with gluten-free mixes.
Their approach to revitalizing classic recipes with alternative ingredients helped me rethink how to modify traditional recipes when omitting standard ingredients.
When Jennifer Katzinger opened The Flying Apron Bakery in 2002, she wanted to accommodate more people, as well as use healthier ingredients so she eliminated gluten, dairy, egg and wheat. The mouthwatering result? Cakes and muffins with a tender crumb, cookies with a chewy bite, frosting that's light yet satisfyingly sweet and pastry that flakes at the touch of a fork. In "Flying Apron's Gluten-Free and Vegan Baking Book", Katzinger shares the delicious secrets of her sweet and savoury recipes. Bake yummy pastries like Blueberry Cinnamon Scones and Lemon Poppy Seed muffins, or whip up a batch of Chocolate Chip…
Many bakers keep The Joy of Baking in their kitchens. When I started vegan baking, I realized I needed a vegan version of this classic book. I had a traditional cooking background and worked for classic cake designers and bakeries, so I didn’t know much about vegan baking at that time. The vegan baking community is mainstream now, but when I started, it felt like entering a new world with many unknowns and stereotypes.
This was before Eleven Madison Park made plant-based fine dining popular and before many restaurants and bakeries offered vegan options. Almost everywhere I go now serve delicious dishes that might not seem vegan at all. This book changed my view on vegan baking and is still relevant today.
Baking without eggs or dairy is a joy and equally as delectable with The Joy of Vegan Baking, Revised and Updated Edition.
Whether you want to bake dairy- and egg-free for health, ethical, or environmental reasons, this updated edition of The Joy of Vegan Baking lets you have your cake and eat it too! With familiar favorites including cakes, cookies, crepes, pies, puddings, and pastries this book will show you just how easy, convenient, and delectable baking without eggs and dairy can be.
Winner of the VegNews magazine award for Cookbook of the Year in 2008, The Joy of Vegan…
I discovered raw baking later in my vegan pastry career and have always admired chefs like Charlie Trotter for their impressive plating, which highlights pure ingredients and sets new standards for traditional techniques.
For me, raw baking represents a contemporary evolution of that approach. When my allergies were at their worst, I followed a raw diet that inspired me to cook without heat. This required eliminating processed salt, sugar, dairy, grains, and oils, focusing instead on raw ingredients and simple combinations.
As I experimented with raw baking, I loved its silky textures, natural flavors, and vibrant colors. It awakened my taste buds. This book taught me the basics of raw baking and how to create desserts using only nuts, fruits, and cacao.
Raw and vegan trends meet in this unique baking book from a popular blogger. Whether you're a vegetarian, a raw vegan or even a meat-lover just looking for something healthy, new and delicious, Emily von Euw, creator of ThisRawsomeVeganLife.com, has provided 100 creative recipes for delicious raw, vegan treats that are easy to make and beautiful to the eye. Emily's eye-catching recipes like her Red Velvet Mousse Towers, Loco Coco Bars and Lemon Cream Pie with Pecans are so tasty that you won't even realize they're vegan. With Rawsome Vegan Baking you'll wow your taste buds and your waistline.
I received this book as a gift in 2006, just a year after its release, and I was immediately captivated by Peggy's sophisticated modern interpretations of classic cakes and dessert designs. During my time in culinary school, I frequently referred to their designs for inspiration and studied their techniques.
When it was time for me to write my cookbook, I naturally drew guidance from the layout style of their book, which made it easy to follow with its recipes, unique designs, and fresh takes on classics showcased through inspiring photography.
Forget the image of maiden aunts and country fairs - cake decorating has become cutting edge And Peggy Porschen is at the front of this trend. Her cute designs have won her a host of celebrity clients including Elton John and Stella McCartney. In this book she shows readers the basics of cake decorating.
This is a cake design book that focuses on vegan and gluten-free baking. It features innovative recipes, unique flavor combinations, and clear instructions for special icings and desserts. The book includes tips for cake assembly, decorating, and sugar sculpting techniques.
Sharing my experiences as a chef with food allergies, I offer adaptable recipes, essential ingredients, and recommended tools for your baking journey. The stunning cake designs are organized by mood, making it easy to find the perfect style for any occasion. With beautiful photography by Lauren Volo, this book is perfect for both experienced bakers and beginners wanting to try modern techniques!
