Botanical Baking

A beautiful step-by-step guide to cake decorating with edible flowers and herbs—one of the key trends in contemporary cookery. 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 which 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 20 beautiful botanical cakes that showcase edible flowers and herbs. This includes 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.

Author: Juliet Sear is a baking expert, cook, food stylist, TV presenter, and best-selling author. She is the go-to expert for out-of-the-ordinary food challenges and creative food projects. Recently, she worked on the edible animation TV trailer for the new Channel 4 Great British Bake Off series and a number of TV commercials. She is the author of The Cake Decorating Bible, Cakeology, and Kawaii Cakes. She lives in London.

Selling Points:

• The only book that focuses on cake decorating with edible flowers and botanicals such as microgreens, which are both key trends in the culinary arts.
• Written by British TV celebrity baker Juliet Sear, who appears regularly on ITV's This Morning.