In Cake Masterclass, award-winning cake designer and presenter of Britain's Best Bakery, Mich Turner, teaches you how to bake impressive cakes for every occasion - from a classic sponge, to decadant chocolate, and traditional fruit and ginger cakes. In the masterclass section, Mich shares her award-winning decorating techniques to teach you how to create truly outstanding cakes. With step-by-step instructions, Mich will show you how to make the classic sugar-paste rose, tiered cakes with piped lace, hand painted flowers, Christmas candy and much more. With experience baking for top celebrities like the Beckhams, Madonna and Sir Paul McCartney and running cooking classes around the world, Mich can teach you how to become a cake baking master at home.

In Cake Masterclass, award-winning cake designer and presenter of Britain's Best Bakery, Mich Turner, teaches you how to bake impressive cakes for every occasion - from a classic sponge, to decadant chocolate, and traditional fruit and ginger cakes. In the masterclass section, Mich shares her award-winning decorating techniques to teach you how to create truly outstanding cakes. With step-by-step instructions, Mich will show you how to make the classic sugar-paste rose, tiered cakes with piped lace, hand painted flowers, Christmas candy and much more. With experience baking for top celebrities like the Beckhams, Madonna and Sir Paul McCartney and running cooking classes around the world, Mich can teach you how to become a cake baking master at home.

Originally published as Mich Turner's cake masterclass by Jacqui Small (London) in 2011.

In Everyday Bakes to Showstopper Cakes, celebrity baker Mich Turner brings together a collection of recipes to take you all the way from the delicious everyday through to the spectacular. Starting out with simple cakes, biscuits and cupcakes, once you have mastered this first level, Mich provides you with a few extra steps to turn these into fabulous creations. If you’re looking for more of a challenge or to elevate a favourite, these bakes are easily adapted to create a true showstopper cake. Covering a full range of bakery goods as well as perfect flavours, whether you are a novice baker or already know your rum baba from your roulade, you can be easily guided through these delicious bakes and simple but spectacular decoration techniques that make the most of wonderful flavours and perfect crumb.

Celebrity baker Mich Turner rises to the challenge with a smarter take on sweet bakes – so you can have your cake and eat it! Her yummy recipes, which include cakes, cookies, meringues, bars, muffins and cupcakes, are made healthier and more nutritious by including fresh and dried fruits, nuts and seeds, and also alternatives for gluten, fats, sugars and dairy to accommodate your personal diet and lifestyle. The secret to Mich’s recipes is a fine balance between delicious and nutritious. Baking and eating healthier cakes doesn’t have to mean bland and boring, and Mich shows you how in this wonderful book of sweet treats. Mich offers suggestions for substituting fats, flours and sugars so you can choose what to bake. In addition, there are smaller bakes so you can portion-control your servings, which helps steer you through the jungle of information. Each recipe is filled with tips and know-how from Mich’s incredible baking expertize. Whether you are new to baking or a cake expert, Mich’s inspirational recipes will give you a reason to bake for family, bake for friends, to celebrate or make amends! Indulge in Peach Melba Muffins, Pumpkin and Poppy Seed Loaf, Pierce Brosnan’s Carrot Cake, All-natural Red Velvet Cake, Hazelnut Meringue with Mango and Passion Fruit among many other delicious bakes.

It takes time and patience to bake the perfect cake; preparation and practice are always the key ingredients. Mich Turner's Cake School aims to provide all of the essential tools, techniques and instructions to make flawless cakes every time. Mich's indispensable lessons offer a wealth of insider tips; tutorials that help you conquer basic methods and techniques, while practical projects showcase Mich's wonderful array of cakes and decorating skills, creating a baking book that no kitchen should be without. Master how to make the perfect creamed cake, then move on to a huge variety of fillings and frostings before finally learning from Mich's decorating expertise to produce beautifully unique cakes of all shapes and sizes. Whether you are baking for an afternoon tea, a small birthday party or a lavish celebration, Mich Turner's Cake School will provide all you need to know to become a master cake maker yourself.

A stunning guide to designing and decorating cakes for all occasions, with a unique portfolio of classic and contemporary designs of the finest detail. The special occasion cake takes centre stage when family, friends and colleagues come together in celebration, whatever the event, so the basic principles for choosing and designing your cake are essentially the same whether the cake is for a wedding, birthday, anniversary or christening. The design should be influenced by personalities and preferences, the venue, time of year, number of guests, colours and flowers. This book is a versatile guide to making all manner of occasion cake designs, that can be adapted for formal or informal events and that will add that all essential wow factor to any celebration. From tiered wedding cakes to the more unusual patisserie dessert cakes, Spectacular Cakes shows how to make them. The reader is guided through the many layers of decision making, from establishing the celebration theme to what shape cake he or she would like and the type of icing that is most suitable to use, and from the choice of flavours to the specific decorative techniques and designs.