Botanical Baking

"Sear‘s food styling background is apparent . . . Home bakers looking to up their decorating game will want to check out this eye-catchingcookbook." - Publishers Weekly Learn how to perfect the prettiest trend in cake decorating-using edible flowers and herbs to decorate your cakes and bakes-with this impossibly beautiful guide from celebrity baker Juliet Sear. Learn what flowers are edible and great for flavour, how to use, preserve, store and apply them including pressing, drying and crystallising flowers and petals. Then follow Juliet step-by- step as she creates around twentybeautiful botanical cakes that showcase edible flowers and herbs, including more top trends such as a confetti cake, a wreath cake, a gin and tonic cake, floral chocolate bark, a naked cake, a jelly cake, a letter cake and more. "I‘m not sure yet which is more impressive, Juliet‘s decorating skills or how good her cakes taste." -Buddy Valastro of Cake Boss "A feast for the eyes. You‘ll not find a more beautiful baking book. Blooming marvellous!"-Fearne Cotton, English broadcaster and author "Juliet‘s stunning botanical book shouts springtime and happy times!" -Melissa Hemsley, author of Feel Good: Quick and Easy Recipes for Comfort and Joy "A new kind of professional has now entered the food business: cakeologist. Well known in the U.K. for her fanciful creations with edible blooms (she counts Prince Harry, Kate Moss, and Sir Ian McKellen among her customers), Sear offers 30 wares to U.S. bakers . . . Sear, who‘s been highlighted in Martha Stewart Weddings, deserves a major ‘hip!‘ for her for heraccomplishments." - Booklist (starred review)