Delia's magazine #3

DELIA’S

ISSUE #3

March - May 2013

MAGAZINe Little Venice Cake Company WITH MICH TURNER

New Section Reading corner

Special CAKES wit h history

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ARA GALETES | TUTORIALS | CONFETTI CAKES

CONTENTS

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Little Venice Cake Company WITH MICH TURNER

Macaron Wedding Cake WITH ELISA CALCAGNO

Cakes with History FAQs

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Confetti Cakes MEET ELISA STRAUSS

Hand-painted macarons

WITH LORENA FROM BISKOTA

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Ara Galetes

WITH ARA ERENAS

Reading Corner

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DELIA’S MAGAZINE Delia’s Magazine, Irina Bautista When we had the thought of creating this magazine we were thinking in creating something different. We wanted to strengthen links between different parts of the world regardless of cultural or linguistic diferences bounding them with something common: creative pastry. Delia’s Magazine was created with the purpose of creating a meeting point for professionals and amateurs in this special world. Among its pages you will find exclusive interviews from different bakeries in the world, the latest trends, techniques, tips and tutorials.

In this project, carried out by the team of Delia’s which is formed by Irina Bautista and Xavier Viñals, we take care of contacting bakers from any part of the world but also we want to show you new techniques developed in Delia’s Bakery. All began with our blog, but we decided to distribute the cooking in a different way. And we decided to dedicate each season of the year one different issue.

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LITTLE VENICE CAKE COMPANY

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www.lvcc.co.uk, Little Venice Cake Company

LITTLE VENICE CAKE COMPANY

Little Venice CAKE COMPANY

Mich Turner entered into the world of cake decorating back in 1999 at a time before couture, designer cakes were fashionable. Previously, she had trained as a food scientist and worked as a patisserie buyer at Harvey Nichols. Through her style, the birth of the Internet and celebrity magazines covering high profile weddings she quickly built up a reputation for designing and creating spectacular cakes.

“I use my scientific knowledge to create perfectly baked cakes. There is a real science to baking cakes” afirms the owner of Little Venice Cake Company, “ the quality and temperature of the ingredients is paramount, followed by the cake method, the baking time and temperature”. Even the buttercreams and frostings have to be perfectly executed for Mich Turner in order to create great cakes. She admits her cakes are not unhealthy per se as she use only the finest quality ingredients, but they are intended to be eaten for very special occasions or as part of a healthy balanced diet.

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I believe cake making is “hugely fashionable right

now and many people enjoy baking cakes, so the changes are already happening.

MICH TURNER

Over the years, Mich Turner has created her own brand and makes available worldwide the utensils and ingredients she uses routinely. It is an example the fondant she uses to cover cakes, on which she explains that it “has been developed in association with Silverspoon and has been flavoured with natural Madagascan vanilla extract.

The resulting sugar paste has a wonderful vanilla aroma and flavour that complements the flavour of our cakes

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www.lvcc.co.uk, Little Venice Cake Company

One of the hallmarks of the creations by Little Venice Cake Company is the spectacular master of the pastry bag for all kinds of royal icing decorations, which confesses Mich Turner to be her forte. But she always wants to surprise her audience and it makes designs with all kinds of ingredients, including chocolate plastic. For those who do not know it, chocolate plastique is the practice of blending chocolate with glucose to create a malleable icing that can be rolled out and used to cover cakes or shaped into decorations. “The resulting paste can be a little chewy so should always be blended with sugar paste,” explains and she add that “it is more susceptible to temperature changes than sugar paste but handles well in most conditions”.

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a useful tip For those people who are “allergic to nuts or really do

not like the taste of marzipan I would suggest applying a thin layer of butter cream or ganache on top of cake before covering with fondant.

MICH TURNER

beautifully”. Further more she says to use the finest almond marzipan created with 36% ground almonds with no artificial flavouring. “Wonderfully soft, delicately flavoured it is the perfect medium to create a base layer for all our cakes which wonderfully complements the flavours”.

Little Venice Cake Company has a style of creating Classical cakes with amazing fine detail, mathematically balanced and flawlessly executed. There are a number of signature designs including Parisian Pearl, 1950s Chic, Faberge and Versailles birds. All their cakes are made to order, many are completely bespoke designs including the Queen Elizabeth Diamond wedding cake that was created to celebrate the Diamond Wedding Anniversary of Her Majesty the Queen and was delivered to Buckingham Palace. With no doubt has converted itself into a Premium British Luxury, totally indulgent, completely bespoke, unrivalled prestige and intricate.

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www.lvcc.co.uk, Little Venice Cake Company

Mich Turner is always inspired to create new products for Little Venice Cake Company. Whether they are her new recipes, new products, new books, new designs or new masterclasses. They have recently added a white chocolate and espresso buttercream to our repertoire, and new products in their tools and equipment range.

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Macaron Wedding Cake with Elisa Calcagno

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MACARON WEDDING CAKE

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Weight all the ingredients and arrange them in separate bowls in order to make the process faster. In To prepare our macaron caps, we’ll need to mix 150g almond powder with 150g icing sugar. If we want the tops of the macarons to be smooth and thin, you should sift the almond powder a couple of times.

Once we have the almond powder and icing sugar mixed, we will add 55g of whites and mix it until we obtain a dough texture that would look like marzipan. No need to use any food processor or mixer at this point, we can do it with a normal kitchen spatula.

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5 Then prepare the Italian meringue by boiling 150g of sugar with a third part water (50g) until they reach 117 ° C. It is important not to exceed this temperature and therefore we will use a suitable thermometer to control it. Withdraw from the heat and let cool a little bit.

When you have the desired consistency, add the desired colour to the dough (in this case we have added a red colour).

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While making the syrup (mixture of sugar and water), we can whip the 55g pasteurized egg whites. To do this, we will need the help of a stand mixer at a medium-high speed for at least three minutes. The whipping time is variable.

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When the egg whites start to form soft peaks, slowly add the syrup (which must be tempered) and continue beating at the same speed. With our hands, we can check the temperature of the mixture. Stop beating when we feel the bowl is semi-hot and consistent mixture forms hard/stiff peaks.

Once we have the Italian meringue and marzipan ready, mix both mixtures as follows: add the meringue in two times. The first one should not be done very carefully because what we want to do is reduce the consistency of marzipan. When we add the rest of the meringue we’ll do it more carefully.

9 One of the key points to ensure the success of the macarons is knowing when to stop mixing.

Stop mixing when the mixture adopts a light consistency. This can be checked with our spatula (should not be too runny).

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10 Put the mixture into a pastry bag with a large round tip. On baking paper put a small amount of the mixture: do not move the pastry bag and put it in a perpendicular position to the tray and exert pressure until the desired size. Seconds before reaching the desired size, we will stop making pressure.

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12 While we let them dry, we will cover a styrofoam-cake with rolled fondant (should be bigger than the diameter of the cone).

This is the best option because we will put up a cone and can be very difficult to cut a cake with the cone at top.

13 To make the chosen decoration, we must have a pattern to see how far we must place the guide points. To do this, we take a circle made with parchment paper with the same diameter of the cake. Divide it in a half circle.

14 Divide the paper in half as many times as you want. The two points that define the arc of the circular segment will show you the distance to make little marks on the cake. Thus, the more times the tracing paper is bent, the closer the points will be.

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16 Will mark the points with a toothpick and with our pattern.

Using the template, we ensure that all points are exactly the same distance apart.

17 Make your decoration with royal icing. We will use a number three nozzle since we want to make a firm visible line. We begin in one of the points we have made and make a half-circle shape to get to the next point. In case the icing cord broke, remove it with a spatula before it dries.

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18 Continue making decoration piping small dots over the design. If small peaks appear in our dots, eliminate them using a brush dipped in water.

19 With front-back movements, decorate the base of the cake with royal icing to complete the design. With the remaining icing, cover a little bit the cone in order to create a surface to glue the macarons.

Let it dry.

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30 minutes later...

20 After the rest period, the macarons are dry to the touch.

Bake them at 170 °C for 12 minutes.

When the first 6 minutes pass, open and close the door of the oven in order to release some heat and bake them 6 minutes more to complete the 12 minutes.

21 Fill the macarons with chocolate truffle and black berries. To prepare it, warm 300g whipping cream and mix with 300g black chocolate and let them melt. Add some berries paste flavour and let stand at room temperature for at least three hours.

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22 To fill the cone with macarons, we have made different macarons with different amounts of red, obtaining different shades of the same color. To assemble the macarons cone, start with the lightest and go sticking with them with some fresh royal icing.

23 When we have completed two or three rows, change it to the next intensity macarons. Try placing one macaron between two macarons of the row below.

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24 We will gradually fill the cone using the same mechanics. When we reached the end of next row cone you’ll notice it begins to be difficult to place the macarons for two reasons. The first is that we need all of macarons below to hold dry. On the other hand, the limited availability of space forces us to choose smaller sized macarons, to complete the turn (make some little macarons!).

Once the cone is completed, let it dry. If desired, we can fill some of the gaps that remain between macarons with some little bows or small sugar flowers.

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MACARON WEDDING CAKE

Macaron Recipe Ingredients for the macarons: -

150g finely ground almonds

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150g confectioners sugar

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55g egg whites

for the italian meringue: -

55g egg whites

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150g granulated sugar

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50g water

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CAKES wit h history

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CAKES WITH HISTORY

Cakes inspired by the bride’s dress, by the flowers in the bouquet or by the invitations make this element the centerpiece of the banquet, located in a privileged place. But until the big day, the design of a wedding cake requires a whole creative process in order to surprise the guests. And every the creative process has its own history.

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Somet hing Blue When designing a cake, it’s important for us to get to know our clients and what their event is all about. We look at the inspiration they are using to plan their event, as well as the details they already have in place. When Elsje and Ben came to us, they had lots of wonderful details in place. As a designer, I was instantly drawn to their custom invitation that featured a silhouette of the couple in a frame with lots of floral and ribbon details. It had a very vintage and romantic feel using blues and pinks. They were open to using color on their cake and that’s when our “Something Blue” cake came to life on paper. I was anxious to create this cake for their Summer wedding. I used a soft blue fondant with white hand painted floral details and hand piped ribbons that seemed to intertwine with the painted floral motif. This cake was topped with fresh flowers in shades of soft pink.

Rachael Teufel Intricate Icings Cake Design

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www.intricateicings.com, Intricate Icings Cake Design

CAKES WITH HISTORY

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CAKES WITH HISTORY

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www.confetticakes.com, Confetti Cakes

CAKES WITH HISTORY

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and the Large Garden Roses she was having at her outdoor weddingin a garden. We also took the piping pattern right from the invitation.

Elisa Strauss Confetti Cakes

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Floral Cascade This romantic, cascading wedding cake was designed for one of our clients whose initial brief was to create an elegant cake in pastel colours.

The cascade effect has certainly become the latest trend and the cake is one of the major dĂŠcor elements within a wedding where you can incorporate this dramatic look.

easily missed! Using the floral cascade design was a wonderful way of creating a dramatic statement.

During the consultation, our bride elaborated on which pastel colours were her favorite combinations.

These were a gorgeous blush pink blended with the hugely fashionable nude mixed with ivories to create a soft romantic look.

Our clients wedding reception was being hosted at the Ritz Carlton Villa Padierna Hotel which is an elegant, prestigious venue located near Marbella. The hotel is famous for its striking, stylish interiors, Italian design, statues, high ceilings and of course the recent visit of Michelle Obama.

Each sugar paste flower was handcrafted and painted creating the individuality of the roses and the blossoms. The total time to complete all the handmade roses took over 80 hours to complete! I thoroughly enjoyed creating this gorgeous, romantic wedding cake, it really was the centerpiece of the evening and a treat to be enjoyed by our lovely couple and all their wedding guests.

With over 300 guests attending, the cake had to make an impact in the large ballroom where the wedding was being hosted. The wedding cake was to be tall, sophisticated and elegant and not

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Fiona Sweet Things by Fi

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www.sweetthingsbyfi.com, Sweet Things by Fi

CAKES WITH HISTORY

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www.ateliersucreme.com, Atelier Sucrème

CAKES WITH HISTORY

Jardín de rosas

We always wanted to do a floral cascade with roses. We made this cake with total freedom and we started to make many rose centers with time, and then we made roses and roses. We can say that pink is almost a sign of our identity so we decided to do this cascade in a degraded pink color. While decorating this cake, in our minds we were singing:

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Dime tu nombre y te haré reina en un jardín de rosas tus ojos miran hacia el lugar donde se oculta el día.

Duncan Dhu

Mónica, Marta y María Atelier Sucrème

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Wedding Cake Rhett & Michelle’s

Michelle first met me selling cupcakes at a Sunday morning market. She fell in love with my Red Velvet cake as it was a completely new flavor to the small town of Townsville, Queensland, Australia were I have the markets.

Shortly after I received a call from Michelle and she came with her fiancé, Rhett which was unique. Mostly I only get to meet with the brides but I was very happy he came also as he gave much needed wisdom about the whole.

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She told me the theme was Garden and showed me these amazing guest invitations that took me to an old English garden with birds and butterflies fluttering around. They were printed on beautiful translucent vellum paper, which of course she made! Immediately I said “Ok, so there will be a small bird cage on the top nestled in flowers and the cake must be on an elegant pedestal”.

She looked at me like I was crazy but I felt confident this would suit her theme.

Theresa Francis New York Cake Co

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www.newyorkcakeco.com, New York Cake Co

FAQs This space is dedicated exclusively to our readers, who send us their questions via our email contact@deliasmagazine.com or throught our social networks. Each issue will contain some of the questions we receive, but the rest of them will be answered through our social networks, which are daily reviewed.

Tea is my passion and I have a thing for biscuits. How could integrate my favorite tea flavor in the cake recipe?

I love making brownies but with the last recipe I used, many blisters appeard on the surface of the cake during baking. Do you know why this happens?

The trick is to use unsalted butter and a strong tea. With these two elements will make an infused-butter that will replace the butter of our cake recipe. To do this you need a little more butter than the recipe tells due to certain amount is lost in the process. You will melt the butter in a saucepan and then add tea leaves (you must experiment with desired amount of tea). Leave on heat for about five minutes on low heat and let cool for five minutes. Then pour the mixture through a sieve (at this point the amount of butter will be reduced). Wait until the infused-butter is at room temperature for use it.

The blisters appear on the surface when the sugar content is very low while the egg content is high.

These brownies are cake-like. For our brownie more spongy or fudgy we should use unbleached flour and instead of cake flour.

Which is the best way to fill cupcake capsules?

Many people use an ice cream scoop so you ensure that each capsule has the same amount of the dough. Other ways to fill cupcake liner is by using a pastry bag to distribute the dough. Anyway, we should try not to stain the outer edges of the liners with dough to get perfect results.

What is cassava cake?

It is a cake that is made in many places such as the Philippines, Brazil, Colombia, Malaysia and Fiji. The key ingredient is manioc, also known as cassava or yucca , a root that can grow in harsh conditions and considered the harvest of the poor man. The combination of cassava with cinnamon, pumpkin and coconut (to name a few of the ingredients) makes this cake a delicious dessert for any guests.

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I want to make cupcakes with passion fruit buttercream, which is the perfect cake flavour to do the cupcake?

We recommend you to make a Bourbon vanilla sponge cake filled with white or black chocolate chips (those which do not melt at the oven). Sure you will surprise your guests!

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CONFETTI CAKES

Confetti CAKES

meet Elisa Strauss

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www.conffetticakes.com, Confetti Cakes

CONFETTI CAKES

www.confetticakes.com, Confetti Cakes

Since she was a child, Elisa loved baking with her Grandmomi: they were always baking together in her kitchen! Step by step she developed her own technique and opened Confetti Cakes many years later, a place where creativity and imagination are put together in order to create special cakes, cupcakes and cookies. Each of the designs is first passed through a phase of sketch before she makes it real. When baking she uses not only the freshest ingredients but also the proper proportion of sugar. For those who

www.conffetticakes.com, Confetti Cakes

Elisa Strauss, owner of Confetti Cakes, started baking for friends and family and picked up cake decorating books of other designers. Nowadays she says everything is a potential source of inspiration : Textiles, fashion, and architecture; and very little design ideas come from baking books. “If it takes you a long time- it is probably the right thing to do- meaning : don’t take shortcuts…take the right amount of time to get the best result”, says Elisa for cake decorators who are new to cake decorating. The owner of Confetti Cakes defines her own business as delicious, modern and stylish.

find cakes too sweet, Elisa Strauss recommends to folow the recipes “It is best to have a little of something real like real sugar and butter then to eat an entire box of something that is fat-free or reduced sugar… plus I believe in exercise and eating ell so you can always have dessert”.

Mastering her technique has allowed her to write some books on creative pastry where she shows some of her best designs, techniques and recipes. “ I love teaching, and people wanted to make our designs all over the world- so I thought writing books would be the best way to help people,” she answered when we asked her what led her to write her first book “The Confetti Cakes Cookbook: Spectacular Cookies , Cakes and Cupcakes from New York City’s Famed Bakery “.

In her books, Elisa makes the instructions easy to follow and include a range of projects in terms of complexity. She explains to us that each book starts with easier recipes and then gets more challenging. “I am most proud of that, so if you want to make some simple cookies you can but if you are up for creating a wedding cake or sculpted cake you can do that too!”.

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www.confetticakes.com, Confetti Cakes

CONFETTI CAKES

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I think people think cakes are so difficult to make- they take some time but as long as you are patient and have a love for it- you can do it…and if nothing else you can eat it.

www.confetticakes.com, Confetti Cakes

ELISA STRAUSS

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Vict orian House

The couple got married at this house so there cake is an exact replica- but made out of banana cake with Chocolate ganache filling. We matched the icing colors to the REAL paint chips of the house and the sugar flowers matched the real live hydrangea flowers.

CONFETTI CAKES

www.confetticakes.com, Confetti Cakes

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HAND-PAINTED MACARONS

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Hand-painted macarons

Lorena is a nurse by profession, but she quit her job to follow her husband in his career and go abroad, to Athens, a city that she loves because its food and for having given birth to two of her daughters. After multiple destinations he went back to Madrid, her home. She confesses that she always has been very interested in cooking, especially baking, and it was by accident that she discovered the world of decorated cookies. Looking what to give in the christening of his daughters she discovered the Garcia Vinuesa sisters ftom “Muy Dulce”, where she made two courses and encouraged herself to do her own cookies for the christening. Once stuck in this world, she discovered Bea from her blog “El Rincón de Bea” and her interest grew. She also has made clases in the field of modeling in “La sorpresa de Clara”, and in “Cakes Haute Couture”, where she says to have met great people and will never forget the tips that Patricia Arribálzaga gave on how to use things we have at home to create textures and shapes. “Making

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Materials A palette for mixing the colors.

Brushes of different thickness.

Different paste colors, depending on the flower and the color of our macarons.

Superwhite powder.

A glass of hot water.

courses became an obsession and a personal satisfaction” explains and adds that he repeated with Patricia of “La sorpresa de Clara”, with Loleta of “La Tienda Americana” and a course of macarons in “Le Cordon Bleu” and in “ Atelier Sucrème”, where she collaborated hand painting them.”Since childhood I liked to paint, thanks to my grandfather who taught me different techniques, and it was this past summer when I attended a course in England with Natasha “Nevie Pie Cakes” I encourage myself to learn the painting technique, but this time not on canvas but on fondant ... today is what I like, paint, paint and paint! “explains the creator of Biskota.

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We take our first macaron and in the color palette we mix some pink colour (in this case) with a very little amount of water. We must bear in mind that macarons are very porous and an excess of water would ruin our macaron. So, with the brush as dry as possible we go to shape our peony.

2 With soft touches we will create a small sketch of what will be an open peony. ...

We’ll go up the tone of the chosen color to create shadows that will give depth to our flower.

Always try not to put water in excess when mixing it with the colour.

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For even more depth play with lights and shadows of Superwhite powder (mixing it in other compartments of our palette with some water). With small touches on the opposite side, our flower will look more realistic.

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Now we’ll use a brown colour to paint the center of our peony, making little circles (like those used in pointillism) to get the effect of stamens that are in the center of the open peony. ...

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Mix a small amount of green paste colour with very little water. Draw some small leaves at the base of the flower (four little leaves are perfect).

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Then, we will paint our leaves with another green, in this case the ribs will be drawn in a darker green.

Finally (and with care), we just have fill our macarons and enjoy them!

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There are as endless possibilities as far you can imagine them!

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ARA GALETES

CUPCAKES

For those who believe that small details make the difference, let yourself charm by her cookies, as well for her delicate cakes or delicious macarons.

GALLETAS

For those already familiar with Ara Galetes, it won’t be new her delicate skill with the pastry bag shown in her creations. The thumbnails and details can not be missed in any of her little pieces of art, “less is more, and my creations are characterized by small details that make the difference.”

www.aragaletes.com, Ara Galetes

TARTAS

Ara Galetes is a study that comes from the hand of Ara Erenas, the creator of all the wonders of Sugarcraft find therein. Besides made to order cakes, Ara Galetes also teaches you her techniques in her pastry courses adapting them to the needs of each of her customers.

She has courses for any kind of audience: for those who are starting to discover this world and for those who want to master their techniques. Her Atelier is proud to be one of few in Spain to teach the cross-stitch technique to decorate cookies.

“I like to decorate my cookies, cakes, cupcakes or macarons with small motifs and romantic details” Sugar flowers, wedding cakes, macarons or cupcakes are the variety of courses that you can find, and custom courses in which the client decides what to learn depending on how much time do he or she has. The simplicity and Ara’s good taste make Ara Galetes one pastry Atelier which sure it will be a reference in Spain.

MACARONS

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ARA GALETES

www.aragaletes.com, Ara Galetes

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ARA GALETES Delia’s Magazine has the opportunity of knowing how Ara works while she teaches us how to make a cross-stick cookie, one of the most elegant and elaborate techniques for cookie decorating. However, this intricate technique is only taught in her Atelier in Spain.

While the cookies are cooled just out of the oven, Ara Erenas serve us delicious macarons filled with meringue and violet accompanied by a good talk and an outstanding company.

As we are going to need royal icing, she tells us her secret recipe and the tips in order to get the perfect texture for outlining our cookies.

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I love the flavor violet gives to the cupcakes and macarons, I always recommend trying it in the recipes.

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ARA ERENAS

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TIP The outlining royal icing and for stenceling should always have a much thicker consistency than the one used to fill. When we need to fill a cookie with royal icing you should first outline it with thick royal icing. To know which is the perfect consistency of filling royal icing, we will add water drops to thick royal icing until it takes the consistency of Greek yogurt (not too runny, not too thick). “

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ARA GALETES Just as if we were sewing, we need a cross stitch pattern to guide us at the time when making your design. In this case we have chosen a floral pattern of little roses.

kie. So it looks like a real box of cross stitch. The result is very eleOnce done the line pattern, cou- gant, exquisite and great. nt the squares needed to figure us our image is centered. With a pastry bag with thick pink royal icing with tip number 2 start drawing the rose center.To make the leaves, use thick royal icing coloured in green. until you complete your cookie.

We are going to start making parallel lines simulating the fabric where cross stitch is made. To do this we need thick royal icing on a pastry bag with the number 2 nozzle. First make the lines from If you wish to end your design as it left to right and then, following the deserves, you can perform a nozzle method, make perpendicular lines lined around the edge of the coo-

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Learn how to model, paint, wire, tap and give realism to your own sugar flowers

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READING CORNER

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The Hummingbird Bakery is a sweet tooth’s delight. The cupcakes are legendary and our special occasions are always chock full of Gummingbird goodies Gwyneth Paltrow

With the collaboration of Editorial Acanto

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The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook Tarek Malouf, photography by Peter Cassidy

The Hummingbird born in 2002 after its owner, Tarek Malouf, travel to the U.S., specifically North Carolina, and try the typical American pastry: cupcakes, American apple pies and banana tarts among others. In 2004 was inaugurated Hummingbird Bakery in London with typical American recipes that tested like the ones of United States. Tarek Malouf, studied in the U.S. and had his first contact there and found the American pastries shaped in cupcakes. After leaving his job as a journalist for ABC News in Los Angeles, he ventured into London with a new business idea, to open a bakery under the name of Hummingbird Bakery. Currently, the bakery has branches in Portobello Road in Notting Hill and Old Brompton Road, South Kensington and soon to open a new branch in London’s Soho.

Tarek Maoluf has adapted the best recipes and for many years he has kept the secrets of Hummingbird Bakery, which are now shown in this book: the famous Hummingbird cupcakes, the most famous cheesecake in New York, the lemon meringue pie, the more than sixty recipes that have made the reputation of the pastry.

The book is divided into recipes for cupcakes, cakes, pies, brownies and bars, muffins and cookies. With a fine selection of their best recipes, Hummingbird Bakery surprises us with this wonderful delivery that will not leave anyone indifferent. For both experienced and amateur bakers, this book is an indispensable part of the collection of good recipes for special occasions. If you want to surprise and enjoy savoring Londons best pastries, you must have the cookbook of the Humminbird in your culinary library.

With a clean design of its pages, spectacular images and final photos of each recipe, the Editorial Acanto reflects their professionalism and quality, as it usually does in each of their publications.

Recipes In this case, the cookbok of Hummingbird Bakery, as its name suggests, is a compilation of the best recipes of the well-known bakery, which has given so much talk in recent years.

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never fail. If approaching a celebration, want to surprise your partner or just give a treat to your palate be amazed with the best pumpkin pie, and get to know the secret of the flavor that only Hummingbird gets in their blueberry muffins and their famous cupcakes.

READING CORNER Design and layout: Excellent Illustrations: Excellent (By Peter Cassidy) Number of pages: 144 Level: Suitable for beginners, amateurs and experts Rating: 10/10 Language: English and Spanish Rating: The book includes over 60 recipes and is divided into sections according to the type of each: cupcakes, muffins, cakes, brownies and bars, pies and cookies. Los buenísimos cupcakes de fresas y pastel de queso, la verdadera receta del pastel negro de Brooklyn o los maravillosos muffins de plátano y canela se encuentran dentro de este incríble libro lleno de recetas exóticas para los paladares más exigentes. Imprescindible para conseguir una buena base en tus mejores recetas reposteras. Apto para principiantes, aficionados y entendidos en repostería creativa.

blueberry muffins

“Bring on the brownies, lemon meringue pie and yummy carrot cake - sweet success never tasted so good.”

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Coconut and Pineapple Cupcakes

“If you haven’t tasted a Hummingbird Bakery look-toogood-to-eat cupcake, you’ve definitely missed out.”

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Muesli bars Sugar Cookies

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Muffins with ham and mushrooms

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In this essential guide for beginners you will find all the necessary steps to continue to work toward a good basis for learning to decorate cakes and cupcakes.

One of the main rules of this art is a good recipe. If you have a recipe for cakes, decoration holds 50% of the chances to succeed. In the book you will find delicious recipes for cakes and icings, according to Paris Cutler of Planet Cake baker and author of the book: “they work, the cakes are firm enough to provide a good basis on which to learn to decorate and to be preserved perfectly. “ A good ganache or fondant recipe is key to line a cake, and are some of the best kept secrets of Planet Cake, which are revealed to you in this fantastic book. With two chapters on key recipes for making cakes, Planet Cake has already reached its second edition in just a few months with Editorial Juventud.

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concepts within the field of creative pastries.

Recipes of cakes like chocolate couverture, carrot cake, white chocolate couverture and vanilla cupcakes among others, are some of those that you will find inside this great must-have book for beginners and amateurs. A book full of curiosities and answers that will help you take that small step towards creative pastries.

Planning and preparation are essential for a beginner who wish to venture around this wonderful world, and therefore, Planet Cake, offers a guide to planning and designing the cake, as the rule of the three days, which will help you form a good basis to start. In addition, Planet Cake, gives a fantastic utensils guide, edible decorations and necessary materials for the elaboration of the ganache and deOne of the most common fears corating their cakes and cupcakes. in kitchen for beginners are techIn the glossary, you’ll also find a niques, the fear that the picture on basic guide to acquire necessary

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the end of our book, or decoration that we saw on that website is very difficult to achieve. To do this, Planet Cake, has developed a fantastic section of techniques that will help the less daring to take another little step to reach its goal.

Cutting, spreading ganache and covering with fondant a rectangular cake, a cake shaped like a cupcake or even in three dimensions, are some of the tricks you’ll find inside Planet Cake. Also, find the secret for making the famous tassels of Planet Cake Cakes or the preci-

The most important technique that you will get in this chapter is the <<secret >> Planet Cake has to get perfect decorations: use the ganache as the basis of a thin layer of fondant.

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Therefore, it becomes one of the best publications for baker beginner highly recommended by Delia’s Magazine.

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Design and layout: Excellent Illustrations: Very usefull, including hand painted illustrations Number of pages: 190 Level: Beginner Rating: 10/10 Language: English and Spanish Rating: You’ll find step by step techniques and recipes. With illustrations and lists of tricks, materials and ingredients that are essential for making each cake or cupcake.

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