Julie Le Clerc's Fvourite Cakes

This is the ultimate cake book, covering every kind of cake for every kind of occasion. A must-have for any cake baker.

Good home-baked products are the most delicious, but finding trusted recipes or stimulating ideas is not always easy. Julie knows many home-cooks and professional bakers are constantly searching for reliable, inexpensive yet innovative recipes.

That's why she's keen to share her favourites with easy-to-follow recipes that result in a variety of cakes, all with seriously good flavours.

The cakes in this book are Julie's tried and true favourites -- the ones she comes back to time and time again. Many she's been making since childhood, others she's made hundreds and possibly thousands of times over the years in her cafe or kitchen.

Alongside all the recipes Julie happily shares her own hard-won baking advice. These invaluable hints are the set of nifty tricks she has picked up from a lifetime spent creating cakes.

Julie Le Clerc (pronounced Le Claire) is an imaginative chef, cookbook author, food and travel writer and food stylist. She has had an eventful culinary career that includes many years cooking in professional kitchens, running her own boutique catering business and owning and cooking for two highly successful cafes. Julie has also just been on our screens for several weeks with her hugely successful TV3 show, Cafe Secrets. She now lives an enviable life filled with travelling, tasting, eating and writing about food. www.julieleclerc.com.

Julie Le Clerc's Favourite Cakes is available now at all good booksellers nationwide.

Reprinted with permission from Julie Le Clerc's Favourite Cakes by Julie Le Clerc
Published by Penguin Group (NZ)
Copyright (c) Julie Le Clerc, 2011
Photographs by Melanie Jenkins

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