Celebrity baker Mich Turner brings together a collection of recipes to take you all the way from the delicious everyday through to the spectacular.

Everyday Bakes to Showstopper Cakes

Turner, Mich

History

Frances Lincoln

Mich Turner, whose critically acclaimed catering business designed wedding cakes for Madonna, Pierce Brosnan, Paul McCartney, and Catherine Zeta-Jones, has created a step-by-step guide to creating spectacular special occasion cakes that delight the senses and are exceptionally impressive. There is no better guide to the art of cake decoration than Mich Turner, who outlines her basic philosophy that a special occasion cake should reflect four key variables-the personalities in attendance, the venue, the time of year, and the number of guests. This authoritative primer demonstrates how to design and decorate the perfect cake and guides the reader through the many layers of decision-making necessary to achieve crowd-stopping results. The one common denominator of every one of Mich Turner's designs is that it is guaranteed to add that "wow" factor to any celebration. Spectacular Cakes is a versatile sourcebook of cake decoration styles and techniques from the traditional to the cutting edge. It also includes cake recipes and a portfolio of incredible designs that can be copied step-by-step or adapted to suit any formal or informal event. Spectacular Cakes will make your next celebration an unforgettable event.

Spectacular Cakes: Special Occasion Cakes for any Celebration

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Baking

Universe

Mich Turner is London's top cake designer for society and celebrities alike. She has refined a simple and modular approach to entertaining-start with a dozen basic recipes and let the art of icings, glazes, and finishing touches be the key to perfection. This versatile guide is a sourcebook of ideas for celebratory treats, such as cakes, petit fours, and canapes for any event, formal or informal. The book begins with how to choose the right cake design (reflecting the venue and the season as well as the guest list and flower arrangements) and then details establishing the theme, the shape, the icing, and the flavor of the cake. The heart of the book is the step-by-step section on decorative techniques and designs that enable anyone, regardless of experience, to create show-stopping cakes with confidence and style.

Party Cakes: Delightful Little Treats for Special Occasions

Mich Turner is London’s top cake designer for society and celebrities alike. She has refined a simple and modular approach—start with a dozen basic recipes and let the icing, glazes, and finishing touches be the key to perfecting the design. Here, she focuses on the wedding cake and offers inspiration and guidance to brides-to-be as well as to caterers, chefs, and wedding planners. The cutting of the cake is one of the most cherished memories of any wedding. This portfolio of Mich Turner’s stunning cake designs is organized thematically, from simple sunny cakes redolent of a springtime garden wedding to opulent more autumnal chocolate multi-tiered sculptural cakes. Mich also shows how to present the cake to create drama and a real sense of occasion, including advice on every detail, from the type of tablecloth to use and how best to display candles, flowers, and ribbon. Mich Turner’s wedding cakes are regularly featured in Brides, Vogue, and Harper’s Bazaar, and this book amply demonstrates how to achieve perfection.

Wedding Cakes

Reference

This wonderfully presented class to making and decorating cakes, cupcakes, and other visually stunning baked delicacies from the renowned cake designer is perfect for bakers of all levels, from event planners and caterers to home cooks. Whether planning a grand fête or an intimate dinner, Mich Turner’s cake designs are the perfect dessert for a celebration. The book begins with a thorough overview of basic equipment and ingredients, along with step-by-step demonstrations and recipes for Turner’s signature cakes, including the famed truffle torte. The heart of the book explores decorative effects with fillings and icings that are delicious as well as lovely, such as chocolate ganache and royal buttercream, along with special techniques, like covering a cake with marzipan and sugar paste or coating cakes with chocolate. An entire chapter is devoted to Turner’s signature piping designs, from the simple to more elaborate curlicues, pearls, and weaves. The book concludes with sections on advanced techniques, like making petal-paste roses or elaborate ribbon loops, and a portfolio of her most renowned designs, ranging from opulent chocolate sculptures to charming cakes adorned with confectionary frills and flowers, along with detailed instructions for re-creating them. Anyone who has wanted to take a professional baking course will relish this lavishly illustrated "master class" from London’s renowned master baker and cake designer.

The Art of the Cake: The Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide to Baking and Decorating Perfection

Rizzoli Universe Promotional Books

A step-by-step guide to creating a wide variety of unique and innovative cakes for any special occasion offers a fundamental primer on the art of designing and decorating the perfect cake, provides a sourcebook of inspirational cake decoration styles and techniques, and furnishes cake recipes and a portfolio of designs that can be copied or adapted to suit the situation.

Spectacular Cakes: Special Occasion Cakes for Any Celebration

Rizzoli

Expert lessons and tutorials for successful cake making and decorating from the acclaimed celebrity baker and cake designer. This comprehensive, practical guide to making, baking, and decorating cakes—from simple iced cakes to extravagant affairs with buttercream flowers—is the ultimate reference from award-winning cake designer Mich Turner. Turner teaches how to bake all types of cakes for every occasion, from decadent chocolate to traditional spice cakes. With step-by-step instructions, she shows how to make a classic sugar-paste rose, tiered cakes with piped lace, fillings and frostings, icings, coverings, and stacking. Mini-tutorials feature clear and concise steps and nuggets of wisdom gleaned from years of experience as one of the world’s leading professional bakers. The entire volume is replete with tips, tricks, and carefully explained techniques. With experience baking for top celebrities and even the Queen, running cooking classes around the world, and most recently judging cakes on Britain’s leading baking reality show, Britain’s Best Bakery, Mich Turner shares what it takes to become a cake master.

Mich Turner's Cake School: The Ultimate Guide to Baking and Decorating the Perfect Cake

Mich Turner, cake decorator to the queen, shows us the nutritious (yet always delicious) side of sweets. Celebrity baker Mich Turner cooks up a smarter take on sweet treats—so you can eat your cake and enjoy it, too! Her yummy recipes, which include cakes, cookies, and cupcakes, offer healthier choices with substitutions for refined sugar and the addition of superfoods. Savor (guilt-free!) Date, Banana &amp; Peanut Butter Muffins, Lemon Polenta Cake with Strawberry Compote, Carrot Cake with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting &amp; Walnut Praline, and other delicious desserts.

Have Your Cake and Eat It: Nutritious, Delicious Recipes for Healthier Everyday Baking

Union Square & Co.

A versatile guide to making all manner of occasion cake designs; from tiered wedding cakes and patisserie dessert cakes to single tier and individual cakes. Special Cakes shows how to make them step-by-step, from a unique portfolio of clean, classic and contemporary designs of the finest detail. The book covers the many layers of decision making; from establishing the theme and what shape cake to choose to the choice of flavours and most suitable icing to use, and the specific decorative techniques of each design.

Spectacular Cakes

Jacqui Small

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Books by Turner, Mich

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Everyday Bakes to Showstopper Cakes

Spectacular Cakes: Special Occasion Cakes for any Celebration

Party Cakes: Delightful Little Treats for Special Occasions

Wedding Cakes

The Art of the Cake: The Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide to Baking and Decorating Perfection

Wedding Cakes

Spectacular Cakes: Special Occasion Cakes for Any Celebration

Mich Turner's Cake School: The Ultimate Guide to Baking and Decorating the Perfect Cake

Have Your Cake and Eat It: Nutritious, Delicious Recipes for Healthier Everyday Baking

Spectacular Cakes