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Giveaway #27: (CLOSED) Morphy Breadmaker and the Bumper Books Christmas Gift Guide Part 2…. Good looking cakes and confectionery

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Welcome back to the Maison Cupcake Bumper Books Christmas Gift Guide served in SIX digestible parts.

Most of these titles below came out, or where re-issued during 2011, some I own, some I’ve gazed at in bookstores, all would make an ideal gift for someone.

Today I’m kicking off with books for cake and confectionery fanatics.

Below you can also win a Morphy Richards Breadmaker

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Books for cake and confectionery lovers

Clockwise from top left:

For ladies beyond cupcakes

Meg Ray’s Miette brings the famous San Francisco bakery of the same name to your kitchen; famous for her signature mid sized cakes, especially those like the one on the cover with triple layers and frosting, this book is one of my favourites of the year. Scalloped edges to the pages make it stand out! Sadly it’s only been published with American cup sizes but I intend to make lots of things from this in the new year.

Miette by Meg Ray with Leslie Jonath is published by Chronicle Books in hardback RRP £17.99.

For the Francophile who loves to bake

David Lebovitz certainly will have you Ready for Dessert with this masterful volume of over 170 recipes for cakes, cobblers, cookies, custards and more. This book is weighty, full of detailed advice and the wit we’ve come to expect from David’s blog. Not all recipes are accompanied by photos but you feel so guided by his expert advice you can have every faith each dessert or biscuit will turn out just right.

Ready for Dessert: My Best Recipes by David Lebovitz is published by Jacqui Small in hardback RRP £25.

For the discerning chocolate lover or would-be chocolatier

William is one of the country’s top chocolatiers, having worked at numerous Michelin-starred restaurants with a number of the most respected chefs and pâtissiers in the business. Couture Chocolate is an astonishing homage to chocolate patisserie. Beyond being any other chocolate cookery book, it demonstrates in pictures highly skilled techniques that go into creating the most elaborate chocolates and desserts. For most people this is very advanced and would see little further action than oo-ing and arr-ing on the coffee table, however if you were someone wanting to set up their own chocolate business this publication would be an inspiring and beautiful textbook.

Couture Chocolate: A Masterclass in Chocolate by William Curley is published by Jacqui Small in hardback RRP £30.00.

For the cake perfectionist

Mich Turner’s Cake Masterclass does for cake what William Curley has just done for chocolate: There are those happy with a dusting of icing sugar on their bakes and others who set out to create a real show stopper. If you fall into the latter category and are prepared to get seriously obsessive about piping bags and sugarpaste – this ain’t airy fairy stuff you know, it’s hard core cake decoration. Mich shares her secrets for baking and decorating stunningly beautiful cakes with a dizzy array of step by step pictures to see you through virtually every cake decorating technique imaginable.

Mich Turner’s Cake Masterclass: The Ultimate Step by Step Guide to Cake Decorating Perfection by Mich Turner MBE is published in hardback by Jacqui Small RRP £30.

With thanks to Jacqui Small for the review copies.

Don’t forget, until 30th November you can also enter my Mich Turner cake decorating products giveaway.

Giveaway #27: Win a Morphy Richards Breadmaker

This ergonomically designed Morphy Richards breadmaker with easy-view front angled display has a unique collapsible kneading blade for perfect shaped loaves, a timer, digital display, makes loaves up to 2lb and has 13 programmes for a variety of different recipes.

Find out how easy it is to wake up to fresh bread every day!

HOW TO ENTER

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  • This giveaway is set to run until midnight Saturday December 10th.
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Prize sponsored by Morphy Richards


RULES:

1. Open to UK residents over the age of 18.

2. The prize is a Morphy Richards Breadmaker model 48322.

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4. No fibs: each winner’s tweet entries and subscriptions etc are cross checked, cheats will have ALL entries disqualified.

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7. There is no cash or alternative to the prize stated.

8. The prize is selected in good faith, however the prize sponsor may substitute with one similar value/type if original one is unavailable.

9.Winners are picked by Rafflecopter using random.org and the site owner contacts them by the email.

10. Failure to claim prizes within 7 days will result in a replacement winner being chosen.

Come back next time when Part Three of the Maison Cupcake Bumper Books Christmas Gift Guide will feature books for teens and twenty somethings – and a chance to win a Kindle with new shopping smartphone app, Simply Tap.

Other Maison Cupcake giveaways to enter

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Comments

  1. Sophie Williams says

    Best bread I’ve ever had was walnut and blue cheese, hungry just thinking about it! 🙂

  2. Emily says

    Homemade raisin and cinnamon bagels! Granted, I may have been overzealous with my hole-making, but the sense of pride made every bite taste ten times better than shop bought.

  3. Kelly says

    Do you have the re-issued version of miette? I wanted that book really bad but the first printing had some many errors it put me off.

  9. Rhonda says

    My sister made a tomato and cheese bread in her bread maker, I ate it while still warm, was FANTASTIC!

  16. Jo Lees says

    Mmm definitely need a bread maker – have been hand baking bread for a couple of months but it’s a struggle to always find the time to do it myself with two small children so a bread maker would solve all my problems!

    Jo x

  20. Arabella Bazley says

    I love the fresh baked flat breads you get around the Middle East… larger than a dinner plate and slapped on the heated walls of the fire like a pizza to bubble and bake so they end up with crispy bits, thin bits, bubbly bits and soft thick bits (you can tell I am not a food writer!). They normally bake twice a day so you collect them fresh as they are being cooked and it is impossible not to eat any before you get home.

  24. Tracy Nixon says

    I always love wholemeal and granary – the more seeds the better and I prefer a thick cut piece of loaf!

  29. Angela Sandhu says

    I love ANY fresh bread! i love the smell, the texture! yum! But if i have to choose then a nice Ciabatta…..

  33. Jamie-Lee Norris says

    I absolutely love any Fresh Bread – there is nothing better than the taste of a freshly baked loaf of bread.

  41. Kate says

    Catalan tomato bread. I’m slightly cheating here cos the tomato is rubbed on the bread but it’s the best thing (almost) about going to Barcelona.

  45. Vic says

    I have recently become passionate about cooking and baking in particular, I am itching to try and recreate my favourites, onion bread and rosemary bread.

  49. Olivia B says

    The best bread I ever tasted was while I was in Zambia in the bush. The chef baked fresh bread every day. Each day it had a different flavour, but the best bread had to be the onion bread however. It was simply gorgeous, and with such limited ingredients available and using very simple baking methods (Wood and fire) as no electricity was available, the chef was a true talent and inspiration to all wannabe bakers!

  54. Vickii says

    My favourite type of bread has to be the Challah bread from the Happening Bagel Bakery in Finsbury park! You’re almost always guaranteed a hot loaf of amazing bread! Yum!

  55. Kim Allen says

    My favourite bread is tiger bread, I just love the taste and when fresh is fab in chunks, after a day or two, it’s amazing for toast, it’s probably the only bread that we eat the whole loaf without giving any to the birds!

  65. Ileana F says

    My Favourite type of bread I have eaten has got to be a lovely basil and sundried tomato wholemeal roll stuffed with mozzerella! Wow, I so need one of those right now! xx

  69. Flo Foxes says

    Fave Bread … a simple French White Baguette dipped in Balsamic Vinegar and Mustard Vinaigrette.. yumm ..thanks for the chance to play 🙂

  70. Crystal Mse says

    Cheese and Onion loaf . It was a brown triangle shape and it had little chunks of Red Leicester inside . DIVINE !

    x

  80. JAN says

    I love all fresh crusty bread, but my favourite type of bread is garlic bread – I can’t ever resist it

  83. Jane Willis says

    just ordinary French bread – but baked in a wood fired oven in a tiny hilltop restaurant in Provence, still warm and slightly smokey tasting from the oven

  89. Hazel Rea says

    The favourite bread I’ve ever eaten was a fruit soda bread my mother used to make – absolutely delicious, especially straight from the oven!

  96. laura seaton says

    ooh I made a chilli and cheese bread when I was at school but they teacher didnt like it and failed me, I thought it was lovely though.

    @tiredmummyoftwo

  97. Emily Hutchinson says

    Actually i’m really loving the onion loaf that Asda sell at the minute. Very oniony and rustic and only £1 – great with a good hearty winter soup

  132. Allan Buck says

    Our old one has lost its non-stickyness, but it was great for making all sorts of flovoured breads. Could do with another.

  149. Maya Russell says

    My husband makes superb wholemeal bread with ground nuts and different oils. Best I’ve tasted.

  167. Sarah Fox says

    My favourite bread ever is Sourdough. I love any kind but i especially like the one made from a sourdough starter which lives in my fridge.

  178. Donna Baxter says

    I love any type of bread, especially when it’s freshly baked and still warm with the butter melting as you spread it!! mmmmmm

  185. Janine Atkin says

    i love german bread. dont know exactly what it called, they have different loaves like we do but its all delicious

  209. sue willshee says

    I have to have gluten free bread and to be honest the shop made GF bread is all pretty rubbish 🙁 But I make a loaf from a mix called ‘Helen’s brilliant bread mix’ and it’s lovely. @piperanddaisy

  210. Natalie Holland says

    I absolutely love and adore – sourdough! I rememer the first time I ever tasted it, just delicious 😀

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