Icing on the Cake: Baking and Decorating Simple, Stunning Desserts at Home

What a wonderful book! All the recipes are really amazing, flavor pairings which are completely new and different! Another great thing is that all the recipes are easy to follow and need ingredients which are already in your pantry or are easily available. Tessa Huff has also included a macaron help/guide in this book, which is very detailed for those attempting macarons. Can’t wait to bake from this book and produce some out-of-this world flavour combinations.

I have a passion in baking and cooking. I just can't wait to try some of the recipes and techniques in this book.

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I strongly believe that reviews should be about the product, not the shipping outcome, which is totally irrelevant. I pre-ordered Icing on the Cake so long ago that there was no product description. Based on the title alone, I was expecting another cookbook all about cake. Much to my surprise, Tessa Huff's second book has recipes for cakes, yes, but also pies, pie pops, cheesecake, tarts, macarons, cupcakes, and everything that goes along with those deserts (buttercream, marshmallows, etc). One reason Tessa is such a special baker and cookbook author is her ability to create incredibly elaborate as well as sweetly whimsical cakes. Yes, you'll find some standard flavors here, and you can mix-and-match, but the magic is in Tessa's genius ability to dream up fantastical cakes (and tarts and pies, etc. ) you never even considered before. Her London Fog cake from Layered is still all over the internet (and Pinterest and magazines and instagram) - her Sticky Toffee Date Cake, Pink Lemonade Cake, and Blackberry Elderflower Vertical Cake from Icing on the Cake are certain to achieve the same resounding success. It's not just about the clever flavor combinations though. Tessa is also an extraordinary teacher and there is a substantial trove of valuable tips interspersed throughout Icing on the Cake. This is a cookbook to bake from, but it's also a book to snuggle up with on the couch and read from cover to cover. One of the most important questions for any cookbook is - can I recreate the dish at home? are the directions clear and are the ingredients easy to source? The answer here is a ~90% yes. Some people might struggle to find passion fruit concentrate and pistachio paste, but those are the only two ingredients that really leapt out at me as challenging, and they're only featured in three of the cakes. Tessa's instructions are confident, concise, and meticulous and her recipes include both weight and volume measurements. So far, I've only made the pink lemonade cake (a strawberry cake with lemon cream, meringue buttercream, and her lemon-strawberry macarons). It is absolutely worth the effort and the cost/space Icing on the Cake takes up on my bookshelf. I can't wait to try more recipes in the next few weeks.

This book has the most amazing selection of recipes which I can’t wait to get started on, I would not recommend this for beginners but if you’re looking for next level baking then this is the book to try. I can’t comment on whether the recipes work well as I haven’t made anything yet. Even if you never make anything from this book it’s worth buying for the illustrations!

I've used many a cake cookbook, some purchased and some though the library, to varying degrees of success. When I saw Tessa Huff's first book "Layered" I was stuck by the depth of both flavors and instruction in her recipes. Literally every recipe I've used in that book was spot-on. The recipes are perfect and work everytime. I was excited to see "Icing on the Cake" available as she has included other desserts like pies and macarons. I never thought I'd make French macarons, but with Tessa's precise step-by-step directions, it was easier than I thought (still working on the piping to get the tops perfectly flat). I've made several recipes from this new book and, just like the first, the recipes are rock solid, guaranteed successes. I know I can choose any one and, barring user error, I'll have a spectacular end result. As you flip though the book you'll notice the photos are both gorgeous and inspiring, inviting you to spend a little time in the kitchen working on a new project. Tessa has included intros to each recipe which are insightful and delightful, as if she's speaking to you like a fellow baking friend. "Icing on the Cake" and "Layered" are front and center on my cookbook shelf, and they should be on yours too.