I love collecting recipe books with beautiful, mouth-watering photography and unique food creations.
I rarely actually make things from my cook books – much of the time I just buy them for the gorgeous pictures (is that weird?). The truth is if I baked things from these books regularly, I’d not only be poor, I’d probably be riddled with health problems too.
I’m not suggesting that you should ingest high sugar foods like many of the below on a regular occurrence, but every once in a while, we just need a sweet, possible chocolate-y, pick-me-up, and these books are the perfect inspiration for when that situation arises!
If you’ve ever had a go at making macarons, you’ll know how difficult it is to get them just right. This book has a step by step guide at the beginning on how to perfect your technique, before going in to the different, unique variations of flavours you can try!
Red Velvet Chocolate Heartache by Harry Eastwood
This is definitely my favourite book of the bunch. Harry writes about how to make your favourite sweet treats in a healthy way using some unexpected ingredients, such as potatoes, courgettes and parsnips in her dessert recipes! I’ve tried the sponge cake, and trust me, it was great. You wouldn’t know there was a vegetable in there!
Marshmallow Madness by Shauna Sever
How adorable are these? Obviously a whole recipe book dedicated to marshmallows is a necessary kitchen staple.
Biscuits and Macaroons
For the life of me I don’t know where this book is from. It has no author and I can’t find it online. It was a gift, and I am suspicious that it is from Lakeland.
Its shortbread recipe is divine!
Hehe. Yes, this is Jamie Laing from E4’s Made in Chelsea we’re talking about. Not ashamed to say I’m a big fan! N bought me this book for my birthday one year, and I love it! So colourful and fun.
So there we have it! I expect you’re now drooling all over yourself, so I’d suggest you go and create some sort of chocolate-y, marshmallow-y mess to calm yourself down with.
I’ve always wanted to try a macaron! They look so cute.
The only ones I’ve ever eaten were from La Duree in Paris; which obviously were amazing! I think it’ll be hard to top that from now on though… x
Yep, I am pretty much drooling right now. I need a sugar fix right away! x
Hehe sorry about that :) x
I have so many baking recipe books its getting ridiculous! And a macaroon baking set. I will never be one of those super healthy people I like cake too much! Haha
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Haha me too! Would definitely recommend the Harry Eastwood book though, as those are guilt-free healthy cakes :P x
Yum, all the recipes you’ve shown look delicious! I never cook or bake though, but I still kind of want this book just to look at the lovely pictures hahah x
Sinead | Dreaming Again
Same haha – I very rarely bake; maybe once a month. But I just love having these beautiful books looking nice in my cupboard haha x
The only time I’ve ever made macaroons they cracked – but still tasted incredible! I have such a sweet tooth so these are amazing. I know what you mean about having cookbooks to look at but rarely actually make anything out of. Alice xx
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Hehe I have attempted them too and they just broke when I tried to get them out of the pan Dx They’re more difficult than they look…x
The Millionaire Shortbread looks fuego – need to try this!
Mr Essentialist
It sure does! Must try it myself sometime soon! x
These books are so cute – I want to try my hand at macaroons, but I think I would ruin them!
They’re much harder than they look Dx x
Argh it all looks so good! Trying to be good at the moment so things like this become even more tempting!
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Oops sorry xD hehe x