Learn how to perfect the prettiest trend in cake decorating – using edible flowers and herbs to decorate your cakes and bakes – with this impossibly beautiful guide from celebrity baker Juliet Sear. Learn what flowers are edible and great for flavour, how to use, preserve, store and apply them including pressing, drying and crystallising flowers and petals. Then follow Juliet step-by-step as she creates around 20 beautiful botanical cakes that showcase edible flowers and herbs, including more top trends such as a confetti cake, a wreath cake, a gin and tonic cake, floral chocolate bark, a naked cake, a jelly cake, a letter cake and more.
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"A feast for the eyes. Youll not find a more beautiful baking book. Blooming marvellous!" Fearne Cotton "Juliet's stunning botanical book shouts springtime and happy times!" Melissa Hemsley Stripping away the intimidation factor of creating such decorations, Sear guides readers with inviting, clear instructions...Glorious creations are picture-perfect in Instagram-worthy selections. * Publisher's Weekly *
Introduction
How to Use This Book
About Edible Flowers includes suggestions for flower substitutions and
advice on sourcing flowers
Storing & Preserving instructions for drying, pressing, suspending and
crystallising flowers
Baking Basics basic recipes and techniques
SWEET TREATS
Lavender Biscuits delicate round biscuits rolled in lavender sugar and
topped with edible flowers
Iced Rings pretty iced ring biscuits decorated with edible flowers
Macarons decadent chocolate and blackcurrant macarons topped with edible
flowers
Meringue Lollies piped meringue circles attached to lollipop sticks
Sugar Lollies edible flowers suspended in melted boiled sweets and attached
to lollipop sticks
Dried Flowers Chocolate Bark chocolate bark with edible flowers through
it
Cupcake Wreath decorated cupcakes arranged in a large ring shape
Ganache Trio a delicious collection of chocolate cupcakes, tartlets and
truffles
Chouxnuts filled with Chantilly cream, coated with white icing and topped
with edible flowers
Floral Krispie Cake Topper large Rice Krispie number coated in edible
flowers
JUST DESSERTS
Spring Flowers Bundt Cake tall ring-shaped cake, drizzled with icing and
decorated with edible flowers
Gin & Tonic Caketails jelly, sponge, mascarpone and curd layered in a
cocktail glass
Pistachio, Mint & Yoghurt Cake fresh and light sponge cake decorated with
fresh fruit and edible flowers
Jelly & Cream Sponge Cake layered sponge cake and jelly with suspended
edible flowers
Rose & Lychee Cake delicious sponge cake with ombre, layered rose petal
decoration
Apple Blossom Loaf Cake teatime loaf cake drizzled with icing and decorated
with apple blossoms
Ultimate Vegan Chocolate Cake dairy-free chocolate cake with frosting and
crystallised flowers
CELEBRATION CAKES
Flowerfetti Inside Out Cake 2-tiered cake with flowers through the sponge
and as decoration
Faux Flowerpot Illusion Cakes individual plant pot cakes topped with edible
flowers
Orange & Almond 'Touch of Frosting' Cake 3-tiered scraped cake decorated
with edible flowers
Buttercream Cactus Garden Cake Rice Krispie cacti covered with piped
frosting and topped with edible flowers
Butterfly Wildflower Meadow Cake 4-tiered cake decorated with butterflies
and pressed edible flowers
Lemon Cookie Monogram Cake layers of large, shaped cookies filled with
cream and topped with fruit, flowers and meringues
Bold Botanical Leaf Cake 2-tiered cake covered with edible leaves
Brushstrokes & Blooms Cake sponge cake decorated with candy melt strips and
edible flowers
Pressed Flower Faux Frames chocolate cake 'frames' filled with edible
flowers
Blousy Blooms Bunting Cake 3-tiered cake with large edible flowers arranged
in swags around the top edge of each tier
Dried Flowers Watercolour Cake 2-tiered cake with watercolour-effect
frosting topped with edible flowers
Electro-pop Drip Cake 4-tiered cake with drip-effect icing, decorated with
various elements from the book
Templates
About the Author
Suppliers
Thanks
Index
Juliet Sear is a baking expert, cook, food stylist, TV presenter and best selling author. She is the go-to expert for out of the ordinary food challenges and creative food projects. Recently, she worked on the edible animation TV trailer for the new Channel 4 Great British Bake Off series and a number of TV commercials. She is the author of The Cake Decorating Bible, Cakeology and Kawaii Cakes. She lives in London.
