Lily Vanilli's Sweet Tooth: Recipes and Tips from a Modern Artisan Bakery

by Lily Jones

Overview

Since she started out selling her cakes at a market in East London, Lily Jones (aka Vanilli) has gone on to become one of Britain's best-loved artisan bakers. With a star-studded client list and a thriving bakery on Columbia Road, Lily's bakes are famous for their unique flavour combinations, spectacular design and exquisite taste.

In Sweet Tooth , Lily takes you behind the scenes of her bakery and shows you how to master some of the core skills of baking - the cake, the custard, the coulis, the pastry, the ganache and much more - arming you with the skills you need to develop your own recipes, and move beyond the cupcake once and for all. Packed with over 100 inspirational and easy to follow recipes for layer cakes, tarts, biscuits, meringues, confectionary and ice creams, Lily shares her invaluable tips and decorating techniques. Sweet Tooth is essential reading for anyone who is passionate about making sweets - from the complete beginner to the expert baker.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857864413
Publisher:	Canongate Books
Publication date:	10/01/2013
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 10.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Dubbed 'baker to the stars', Lily Jones has been selling her cakes under the name Lily Vanilli since 2009. She opened her first bakery in 2011 on Columbia Road in East London. She runs a cake and cocktail private members club and is one of the founders of The YBF Awards. She is also the author of A Zombie Ate My Cupcake .

Editorial Reviews

“This is the book for the adventurous baker, regardless of experience level.” —Austin Woman Magazine

From the Publisher

Fashionable and fun without being forbidding

Mail on Sunday - John Koski

The queen of baked goods

ES magazine

Delicious and decorative creations...exceedingly good

Vogue

A one-stop shop for those looking to add serious wow-factor to their baking

Waitrose Kitchen

As the owner of the Lily Vanilli Bakery, the fashion world's favourite cupcake store, Lily Jones has always known how to tempt adult palates with childish treats

The Times Magazine

Lily has turned the sugary sweet cupcake business on its head

Observer

It makes your mouth water just reading the recipe titles! It's fun, interesting to read and the brownies that we made from it didn't last long enough to get a picture taken

a little bird

The pictures are divine and illustrations so sweet that it really does make for the most beautiful book . . . everything looks utterly delicious

Spear's - Food Friday Book Review - Emily Rookwood

A baking bible with a bit of soul . . . [Lily] seems like just the kind of girl you'd love to split a cake with over a cuppa

The Lady in the Leopard Print Shoe Blog - Lynne McCrossan

More than just a cookbook, Sweet Tooth is an adventure manual for baking that shows you how to cook creatively using Lily's oven-refined skills and techniques. This book makes me want to hit the kitchen

Sam Bompas (Bompas and Parr)

Lily's cakes and pastries are inspired - they look beautiful and taste extraordinary. Sweet Tooth is the only baking book you will ever need

Gizzi Erskine

I collect cookery books and this is a great one, beautifully put together. Lily Vanilli's Sweet Tooth has some really interesting and different recipes

Daily Mail

Jones explains the whats, hows and whys of the processes involved . . Many of the quirky ideas for decoration are wonderfully simple and effective and could undoubtedly be appropriated for all sorts of sweet treats

Caterer and Hotelkeeper

With her fancy and tasty cakes, her status as rock n'roll baker is cemented

Dazed and Confused

The recipes are bold and seasonal, with youthful impact and a real sense of fun

Metro - Emma Sturgess

I'm a sucker for pretty things and this book is really pretty . . . a really stylish baking book

At Home With Mrs M