In 2003 Grub Street published Julie Duff s first
book, Cakes Regional & Traditional. The book was
short listed for the prestigious Glenfiddich Award and
was highly praised in the press especially by Nigel
Slater and Tom Parker Bowles and has established itself
as the classic work on British cakes. Julie now follows
that comprehensive work with an equally thorough and
entertaining bible which has taken four years to
research and write, by gathering together all the great
cake recipes from around the world. You will find no
other work which collects together cake recipes from
Europe, Scandinavia, the Middle East, the USA, the
Caribbean, the Far East, Latin America, Australia, New
Zealand, there are even recipes from Iceland, South
Africa, Patagonia and the Gulf States. You ll be hard
pushed to find a country she hasn t included. There are
large cakes, small cakes, plain cakes, fancy cakes,
light cakes, rich cakes, fruit cakes, spicy cakes,
apple, orange and lemon cakes, coffee and chocolate
cakes, iced cakes, layer cakes, sponge and Madeira
cakes, and yeasted cakes. She has included recipes for
brownies, cupcakes, muffins, macaroons, cheesecakes,
parkins, pound cakes, streusels, gingerbreads and
shortbreads. In fact you won t need another cake
cookbook when you have this on your kitchen shelf. Julie
Duff runs her business, Church Farmhouse Cakes from her
home in Croxton Kerriel, Lincolnshire and supplies some
of the country s foremost shops with her highly praised
confections. Since her first book was published she has
been much in demand on TV, radio and in the press for
her cake making tips and her recipes. Last year she
presented a series of regional cake recipes on Woman s
Hour for five weeks.
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