GLUTEN, NUT, EGG and DAIRY-FREE CELEBRATION CAKES

42 Simple and Delicious Recipes for Bakers and Cake Decorators

by GEMMA McFARLANE

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New hardcover book with dustjacket, delicious colour photos throughout. Published 2012, 168 pages, measures 23 x 27 cm.

Have you been asked to make a vegan wedding cake and don't know where to start? Or would you like to give your child with a food allergy the perfect birthday cake? Perhaps you're baking scrumptious treats for a big family gathering, or you're running a cake business and you're looking to cater for those with special dietary requirements.

Trained chef and cake decorator Gemma McFarlane shows you that baking and decorating cakes, cookies and cupcakes for special diets is easy when you know how. Gemma has catered for many allergy sufferers with great success and passes on her valuable knowledge in this unique book. She shares her recipes for dairy-free, wheat-free, gluten-free and vegan cakes and cookies as well as tips on how to successfully decorate cakes with allergen-free icings and coverings including sugarpaste and chocolate ganache.

Gemma shares the contents of her own wheat-, gluten- and lactose-free store cupboard, along with useful information about popular sugarcraft products and the allergent they contain.

Once your cakes are baked to perfection, you will find 14 beautifully decorated celebration cakes for all occasions, including weddings, christenings, birthdays and Christmas.

An essential for cake-makers everywhere, this myth-busting book covers everything you need to know to create cakes that absolutely everyone can enjoy. So whether you are baking at home for a special family occasion, making a wedding cake for the first time, or running a cake business, baking and decorating delicious and beautiful special-diet cakes is not only possible, but easy when you know how.

Contents include:

• All you need to know before making special diet cakes
• Recipes
  • Lactose- and dairy-free cakes
  • Wheat-and gluten-free cakes
  • Vegan, egg- and dairy-free cakes
  • Cake fillings
  • Vegan and Cluten-free modelling pastes
• Preparing cakes for decorating
• Projects - includes Animal sugar biscuits, Egg-free crystallised edible flowers, Winter wedding cake, Dariy-free or vegan chocolate wedding cake, Wheat-, gluten- and dairy-free croquembouche, Individual mini cakes
• Tables
• Templates
• Glossary, index and suppliers

Gluten, Nut, Egg and Dairy Free Celebration Cakes is a UK publication. Measurements are in imperial and metric.

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Gluten-, Nut-, Egg- and Dairy-Free Celebration Cakes - Gemma McFarlane