Seventy-Five Whimsical Recipes that celebrate fruit and cake in all their festive and delicious glory
Fruit Cake: Recipes for the Curious Baker
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“Jason’s love of shaking up tradition is evident. Adding fruits to bolster flavors in familiar baked goods is groundbreaking . . . steering us to experiment, try new combinations of flavors, and expand our baking vocabulary.”
Food stylist Jason Schreiber had access to the most amazing produce available—and lots of it—creating incredible baked goods for the likes of Martha Stewart and Ron Ben-Israel. Being a conservationist at heart, he would take the remnants home after having found that pristine strawberry or sumptuous mango to make the perfect photograph.
From there it became a baking adventure: how far could he go in transforming this bounty of beautiful fruit into baked goods worthy of their luscious flavors and incredible textures? With a love of cake for its ability to turn simple moments into times of celebration, Jason set about working this abundant produce into innovative cakes for every season and mood— redeeming the reputation of fruitcake along the way. Best of all, he has presented his creations here, with mordant wit and hilarious stories, releasing us from the preconception that one can never deviate from a baking recipe. The inspiring and wide-ranging recipes include:
Constant Cravings: Cakes happy to oblige your snacking needs at any hour of day
Buttermilk Ricotta and Peach Cake
Polenta Pound Cake with Spiced Mandarins
Out of Hand: Finger-focused treats perfect for pocketing or dressing to impress
Mango Coconut Cashew Bites
Blueberry Ginger Studmuffins
Showstoppers: Cakes for the spotlight that you can point to and brag, “Oh, I just threw this together!”
Passionfruit Lime Pavlova
Horchata and Roasted Plum Sorbet Cake
All Rise: Try not to swoon at the scent of these just-risen yeasted doughs
Blood Orange Bee-Sting Cake
Panettone Tropicale
Soaked: Cakes bathed in booze, for when you aren’t the designated driver
Sticky Toffee Date Cakes
Fig, Port, and Chocolate Cake
Stunningly photographed, engagingly written, and filled with divine desserts for all seasons, this incredible cookbook will forever change the way you think about fruit and cake.
“[Fruit Cake] hit all the right notes, and . . . truly lives up to its subtitle; Recipes for the Curious Baker, so if you’re curious about what to bake for the holidays . . . this is for you!”
“Schreiber debuts with an inspiring collection of recipes for cakes enriched with fruit that will be a revelation for fruitcake skeptics. A sharp design comprising easy-to-follow ingredient grids and modern–vintage-feel photography adds a polished touch. This will tantalize bakers seeking a modern approach to classic desserts.”
“I am hugely excited about this new book by Jason Schreiber. No: This is not your mother’s fruit cake—it is cake with fruit in it and it is a delightfully imaginative book filled with beautiful photos and a large variety of recipes with exquisitely detailed well-written instructions.”
“This exquisitely designed cookbook offers an update to the fruit cake, that retro Christmas classic. The book’s most stunning feature is photographs of cake slices, cupcakes, and other baked goods arranged in repeating patterns and in a brown, orange, and gold color palette that offers a fitting nod to the ‘70s, the fruit cake’s heyday.”
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