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The Life Changing Magic of Baking

A Beginner's Guide by baker Joy Wilson
By Joy Wilson
Series: Life Changing Magic
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Let me tell you a secret: baking is magic. I don't mean that you have to be a magician to do it. Let me show you how I bake, so you can find the magic in it, too...Learn how Joy Wilson, the social media sensation baker... Read More
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A beginner's guide to baking, with secrets from beloved baker Joy Wilson.

A beginner's guide to baking, with secrets from social media sensation baker Joy Wilson.

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Let me tell you a secret: baking is magic.
I don't mean that you have to be a magician to do it. Let me show you how I bake, so you can find the magic in it, too...

Learn how Joy Wilson, the social media sensation baker and cookbook author, grew up watching her parents bake and took chocolate chip cookies to her first job interview. She shares how she bakes - from creaming butter and sugar, to greasing a pan, icing and adding rainbow sprinkles - and offers insider tips and sage advice for young fans around the world.

Packed with step-by-step skills and oozing with passion, these little handbooks are for any young reader who loves life.

This practical biographical handbook for readers 6+ features:
-A joy-filled introduction to baking
-Words by baking sensation and social media star, Joy Wilson
-Step-by-step instructions on techniques like creaming, icing and mixing
-Includes a recipe for 'Happy Every Day' cake from Joy herself

With warm, engaging illustrations from Tatiana Kamshilina, and in the words of Joy Wilson herself, this is the perfect book to inspire children to find their life's passion.

This book is in an exciting new series that celebrates the magic of life skills that bring joy, and the heroes who made them their passion.

More in the Series
The Life-changing Magic of Baking is part of the Life-changing Magic series, beginner's guides to skills that bring joy, written by real-life heroes who made them their passion. Complete the series with Grandmaster Maurice Ashley in The Life-changing Magic of Chess, world champion Sky Brown in The Life-changing Magic of Skateboarding, and drumming sensation Nandi Bushell in The Life-changing Magic of Drumming.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781915569318

Publisher: Magic Cat Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 24 September 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Magic Cat Publishing

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Tatiana Kamshilina
  • Illustrated by Tatiana Kamshilina

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 214.0mm

Height: 274.0mm

Weight: 173g

Pages: 40

Collections

Children's Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Joy Wilson Penguin Books Series: Life Changing Magic

About the Author

Joy Wilson is well known for her daily dabbles in butter and sugar as her blogging alter ego, Joy the Baker. A California girl and longtime New Orleans resident who now calls Houston, TX home, Joy is a 100% taste buds taught baker and home cook. Since 2008, Joy has shared her indulgent and comforting yet approachable recipes through her popular blog joythebaker.com, inspiring home cooks of all ages to try new things. Joy is also a three-time cookbook author, editor-in-chief of the bi-annual Joy the Baker Magazine, and editor-in-chief of Camp Joy, a zine inspired by Joy's viral backyard camping and cooking video series.

Through it all, Joy proves baking is not about all the latest gadgets and high-tech gizmos; it's about stepping into the kitchen with a monster sweet tooth and coaxing something beautiful out of the oven. Joy has won numerous awards for her online work including Savuer's Best Baking Blog and being named one of the Top 50 Food Blogs by The London Times. Joy has been featured on Food52, NYMag, TheKitchn, Better Homes and Gardens, Sunset Magazine, Washington Post, PEOPLE magazine, and Country Living to name a few. Joy has spoken at Cherry Bombe Jubilee and been seen on The TODAY Show. She has had her own baking and breakfast mixes product line with Williams Sonoma, and a capsule collection of culinary themed necklaces and earrings with Delicacies Jewelry. You can keep up with Joy on Instagram @joythebaker - where among food content you can catch her no-nonsense Instagram Story advice series "The Spiral" - and her cake-based passion project @drakeoncake. On any given day she can be found with a bag of cookies and a pound of butter in her purse.

Tatiana Kamshilina is a freelance illustrator and animator based in Russia. Her work is often inspired by nature, animals, human living, daily life, dreams, myths and folklore. Tatiana mainly works digitally using traditional textures and brushes. She has worked as a freelance illustrator on projects ranging from product design, visual development, commercial illustration, and children's publishing.

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