Judith Fertig, author of many wonderful books, has shared with us her newest releases — Bake Happy, a cookbook with “100 playful desserts with rainbow layers, hidden fillings, billowy frostings and more” and The Cake Therapist, a novel about a “gifted baker starting all over in her old Midwestern hometown and layers it together with an intriguing mystery buried deep in the community’s Depression-era past”.
I just received these books on Friday and have not had a chance to dive into The Cake Therapist.
Bake Happy looks like a great baking book with recipes for the novice and more experienced baker.
The first chapter alone contains recipes for sauces and curds, plate paint, to create beautiful decorations on your dessert plates, homemade colored sprinkles, toffee glass slippers (hard caramel that can be broken into shards to decorate desserts) and more.
Some of the recipes that struck me as unique were Pandan Leaf Papaya with Sweet Coconut Cream, Blackberry Floating Islands with Orange-Szechuan Pepper Custard, Chitchat Bars (gluten free), Sweet Potato Crostata with Sugared Sage Leaves, Sweet Dumpling Tartlets with Maple Custard, Gooey Butter Bars with Passion Fruit Blueberries, Citrus and Browned Butter Madeleines with Burnt Honey Cream and Saffron Creme Brulee with Rosy Strawberry Compote.
After I spend more time with these books, I’ll be sure to share more details. As the books were released today, I wanted to get this post up as soon as possible. Please be sure to check out these two delicious books!
This is a first – RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR picked #1 — Joan Osborne! Congratulations – please send your address to icywit@gmail.com – thank you.
GIVEAWAY: Judith is offering one of you a chance to win both of her newly published books. This offer is open to U.S. addresses only. To enter leave a comment here by June 17th when a random winner will be chosen. Good luck!
Love her cookbooks so I know I’d enjoy the cake one. I also love culinary mysteries and have this one on my wish list. Thanks for the chance.
I want to eat cake!!! So. Much. Cake.
I definitely need some cake therapy!
These books look awesome! I’d love to win one! 🙂
Cake, Please. I want cake.
I love anything sweet!
the recipes sound really interesting from the review!
Love Judith Fertig! I learned to make artisan bread from her, great teacher. I have a class with her next week too. She’s making French almond pound cake with warm chocolate ganache. Perhaps the recipe is in her new book:)
Can’t have too much cake!!
I am usually a pie guy. After this, I am not so sure…
I love cake. Baking it. Reading about it. Eating it.
mmmmmmmmm CAKE!
I don’t have any books from her but both will go in my Amazon shopping card. They both look great.
These look fantastic. I love dessert books and dessert.
I am more of a fan of frosting than cake but maybe that could change! And I always love a good mystery!
I would love to try her recipes!
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I love cake! Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
Great giveaway. Thank you for the chance to win!
I LOVE cake and this particular book looks amazing. Thanks for the opportunity! 🙂
What a coincidence! I love cake, and I have room on my bake shelf for two books. Imagine that.
How playful and fun! Almost forget about the calories!!! 🙂
A cookbook and a novel?! What wonderful companions!
I love me some cake! !!! Moist and yummy.
My daughter very much wants this book. I would love to see what amazing creations she can make with it.
Looks great!!!
Wow, I need to catch up. I wasn’t familiar with either of these. I’d love to win.
I had the pleasure of meeting Judith Fertig at a food blogger conference in 2013. What a lovely woman! So supportive of new food writers. She is an inspiration.
I would love to have these books as part of my book/cookbook collection. Reading and baking….two of my favorite things! Thanks for the chance!!
I’d love some new ideas for fillings in cakes.
I’d love some new ideas for fillings.
So much cake inspiration I bet!
I collect cookbooks. Would love to include The Cake Therapist to my collection. Thank you for sharing your work with us.
The recipe for Blackberry Floating Islands with Orange-Szechuan Pepper Custard is one I would LOVE to try. Hope I win.
What could be better than combining two loves – reading and baking in a novel. I’d love to add both books to my collection.
These look amazing! It sounds like such an awesome book. Baking and books? Im in!
This looks like a great book. Please enter me in the drawing. Thank you for the giveaway. My wife and I have birthdays coming up and could try some of these recipes for cakes. Or just try one any day for no reason, other than….well, we love cake.
Me please!
I love baking cakes for my 4 boys ! Even if it doesn’t end up looking like the picture, they will eat it and I’m happy. I try to select unique recipes that you can’t find them made at the stores. Your books sounds just what we’re looking for !! 🙂
A new baking book? Yes, please.
I like to bake cakes for my 4 boys. They will eat it even if it doesn’t end up looking really pretty like the picture and I’m happy.
I try to select unique recipes that you can’t find them made at the stores. Your books sound just what I was looking for 🙂 Thank you for this opportunity !
I would love one!!!
I want to try the almond cake!
We are bakers at home. Love to see what’s new , specially we’d love to make Saffron Creme Brulee with Rosy Strawberry Compote. Sounds delishh
These look like fun. I need to get back into my baking groove.
I would love to win these books. The cover photography are works of art. Would love to see what I can bake from them.
I would love to have this one on cakes!
I would love to have this cookbook about cakes!
Cake IS Therapy !
These books look wonderful!
These books look wonderful.
Would love these – can never have too many baking books 🙂
You can’t have too many cake books.
Fascinating! Can’t wait to use this book!
Love the idea of trying mug desserts
Let them
Eat cake!
Who doesn’t love cakes??!