Michelle Morfett first started selling homemade cakes at the Hobsonville Farmers Market in Auckland, New Zealand when she was 21. Since then she has opened Mint Cakery in Auckland and has grown her online platform where she teaches her audience how to bake beautiful cakes, cookies and sweet treats.
Inside this book, you will find chapters including:
Morning Tea – jam and cream scones, gingerbread with whipped butter, double chocolate muffins
Cakes – the cake section is a big chunk of this book! Michelle has broken it down into four subchapters being vanilla, lemon, caramel and chocolate. Each chapter has cake recipes and variations. Plus 16 mini cake flavours.
Cookies – condensed milk cookies, molten chocolate cookies, hazelnut creams
Hot Desserts – apple crumble, chocolate self-saucing pudding, sticky date pudding with butterscotch sauce
Festive Baking – pavlova, with helpful techniques for making the perfect pavlova, tiramisu, candy cane Afghans
How to sections for lining cake tins, making cake condiments such as lemon curd and salted caramel, how to candy nuts, cake decorating techniques and tips on browning butter.
