A Good Day to Bake: Simple Baking Recipes for Every Mood

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And I had some leftover meringue from something else and I ate it together and it was just wonderful.

Benjamina Ebuehi: But I really wanted to just remind people that the steps and the processes to get there are just as, if not more, important, and you can learn more from the processes sometimes more than what you get at the end. One of those baking books that you’ll want to keep in an easily reachable spot in the kitchen, A Good Day to Bake really does have something to fit any baker’s craving.Benjamina is an ambassador for the incredible social enterprise Luminary Bakery, and co-founded, with her sister Bonita, The Sister Table (www. Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. Suzy Chase: So last year, I had Nigella on my cookbook podcast, and she inspired me to make my first pavlova.

Though it may not be the first thing to cross your mind, some of the most satisfying simple baking recipes are actually savory as opposed to sweet. Just that sweetness of the plantain against the cheesy and anise seed fennel filling just works absolutely well. It's clear that she's looking to share the "therapeutic and comforting" nature of baking with her readers.

A Good Day to Bake is full of 70 sweet and savoury baking recipes for any day of the week, led by flavour. Suzy Chase: Can you just chat a little bit about how you celebrate unlikely ingredients and how they show up in this cookbook, like the plantain? This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees.

While the larger cookies are deeply satisfying, my daughter pointed out that if we made 16 smaller cookies, they would last longer (Katie is ever the optimist! It takes something familiar, like the classic British pork sausage roll, but changes just a couple flavor notes—with no more effort. They were not a hit with everyone--not everyone loves rosemary--but DIL and I really loved them, as did a couple of her friends. We're going to use really good vanilla pods to get the very best flavor and yeah, just celebrate it in the sponge, in the Swiss meringue buttercream where you can see the flecks of vanilla come through, and just really celebrate a spice that is used day in and day out by bakers absolutely everywhere, but just having it completely front and center and not hidden a ]way. Watching and being a part of people discovering just how therapeutic and comforting baking can be was quite special.In A Good Day to Bake: Simple Baking Recipes for Every Mood, Ebuehi shares the creative, brightly flavored recipes she was known for on Bake Off and in her first book, The New Way to Cake, but with one big difference: She wrote most of it during lockdown in 2020. And so it gets cooked down with some blueberries and you just leave it to infuse, and then you spoon it onto your meringues with some cream. It could be that fleeting moment where you feel the full weight of your knife as it sinks into your cake for the first slice, or the few seconds you take to admire the sheer volume and silkiness of your meringue. Even as I finished writing that last paragraph, I think on all the other bready bakes I made from the book, and they are equally as good as the flatbreads. Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here.