The bestselling, hugely popular Hummingbird Bakery offers a wonderful collection of easy and delicious cupcakes, layer cakes, pies and cookies to suit all occasions.

This beautifully designed, lavishly photographed book takes you through the year to offer simple baking recipes suited to your favourite seasonal events or celebrations, plus inspired recipes that will encourage you into the kitchen even if there is no special occasion! Cake Days: Recipes to Make Everyday Special not only includes the Hummingbird favourites that so many people have come to love, but many brand new ideas such as cocktail and fizzy pop cupcakes, flower-infused cupcakes and even coffee- and tea-flavoured cupcakes.

The brilliant new book from Britain’s favourite bakery – packed with recipes for extra-special treats and surprises.

The Uncook Book by Tanya Maher is the perfect book for anyone who wants to celebrate life through food. Raw food really gives you that opportunity because it gives you so much energy and clarity - but this book is as much about pleasure and enjoying life as it is about health. Offering easy-to-follow, accessible recipes with a modern edge, Tanya draws on her years of experience as a raw food nutritionist and guides you through brilliant basics, fun family favorites and elegant entertaining with living foods. As more and more people begin to appreciate the huge health benefits that a raw food lifestyle offers, Tanya makes it easy to either greatly increase your intake of raw foods or embrace this way of eating for breakfast, lunch and dinner if it feels right for you - while still enjoying a busy social calendar! With beautiful photography, easy-to-source, familiar ingredients, and pull-out information on the benefits they offer your body, these recipes are so tasty that you will want to make them again and again. And if you think you're going to be deprived of anything at all, there's even a section on delicious superfood cocktails!

More than 830,000 copies sold. *Now updated with new recipes* From their first shop in Notting Hill's Portobello Road, The Hummingbird Bakery introduced London to the delights of American-style baking. The simple yet spectacular recipes for indulgent cupcakes, muffins, pies, cheesecakes, brownies, cakes and cookies, in this, their first and bestselling cookbook, ensured that the home cook could create some Hummingbird magic in their own kitchens too. Now Tarek Malouf and The Hummingbird Bakers have created a new edition of the book, fine-tuning their classic recipes and introducing new bakes such as: Mile-high Chocolate Salted Caramel Cake Sticky Fig and Pistachio Cupcakes Hot Cross Bun Cupcakes Chocolate Cola Cake The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook was a Sunday Times bestseller in July 2010

This is an extract from the bestselling Cake Days by The Hummingbird Bakery.