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Café Cakes
“Café Cakes” is primarily aimed at the baking industry, but is also proving popular with café and home bakers. Experienced bakers looking for new ideas, or retailers setting up a new bakery or café business, will find both the reference and recipe sections of the book useful. So will those involved in the food or hospitality industry, including café and hotel workers, chefs, and bakery retail staff who deal directly with the public.
The book includes 54 recipes for pastry, meringue, chocolate, spice, nut and seed, and vegetable based cakes, tarts, slices and flans. It offers detailed but easy-to-read technical information on the cake making process, finishing and presentation, ingredients and equipment. It also describes types of café cakes and their distinguishing features. It includes a glossary and a detailed index of terms, as well as full colour photographs.
Praise for “Café Cakes”:
“This is a practical and comprehensive guide with descriptive photos and easy to follow recipes, including well defined finishing techniques. Excellent supportive technical information on ingredients and their functions in baking, together with prominent marketing concepts and presentation ideas, make this book a key to successful selling. A great addition to the baking library of anyone creative.”
Paul Hansen, Technical Advisor to the New Zealand baking industry for over 40 years. Chief judge/organiser, National Baking and New Zealand Pie Competitions.
“Café Cakes makes great reading. The explanations, and the description of the effects that different ingredients have ion the finished product, are clear and well documents. The new recipes, new names and new combinations of fruits and flavours described in this book will have bakers, café owners and `foodies’ eager to experiment.”
Peter Gray, President, New Zealand Baking Society.
“This is an excellent well balanced publication. The New Zealand market is unique, and it is wonderful to have a publication tailored to the market... It is inspirational and the illustrations are mouth-watering. Well done.”
Simon Bennett, Managing Director, Eve’s Pantry.