Love Is a Pink Cake: Irresistible Bakes and Treats for Morning, Noon, and Night by Claire Ptak

  • Black tea and poppy seed muffins (page 5)

    from Love is a Pink Cake: Irresistible Bakes for Morning, Noon and Night Love is a Pink Cake by Claire Ptak

    • Categories: Cakes, small; Afternoon tea; Breakfast / brunch
    • Ingredients: poppy seeds; black tea; white spelt flour; ground almonds; unsalted butter; caster sugar; honey; eggs; Meyer lemons
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  • SULibraries on October 18, 2025

    641.8653 P975 2023 (LOU)

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  • Blonde peanut butter cookies

    • hlange on January 05, 2024

      Nice peanut butter cookie. You can definitely pick up on the lemon juice which gives them a bit of a twist. I subbed 00 flour for wholemeal flour. These don't keep well at all at room temp. but they freeze perfectly.

  • Ras el hanout snickerdoodles

    • megaera_671d0h on March 07, 2026

      Incredible recipe, yielding divine chewy cookies every time. An easy make ahead party pleaser.

  • Fluffy blueberry muffins

    • tarae1204 on February 26, 2024

      Disappointing, and really problematic recipe for me. First, a major issue with this book for the American reader is it is not translated from British English into American parlance. She calls for a "large" muffin tin in step 1 (and says the recipe will make 10 extra-large muffins elsewhere). This would be a "jumbo" muffin pan - I did not realize in time. She wants them baked at 400 F (she actually writes C but means F), which is high for a muffin usually done at 375. The measurements for the blueberries seem off. I had a bag of frozen blueberries weighing 340 grams and that was about 3 cups. She calls for 430 grams/3 cups blueberries. She strongly urges to undermix - great advice. I would have gladly followed that advice had I not had to elbow my way through the dry, floury batter. I adjusted time in oven to 25 minutes. Too brown on edges, colored blue elsewhere as I couldn't undermix. Undersweet, lacked a pinch of salt, and just meh.

  • Basil, Parmesan and pine nut scones

    • ChelseaP on July 24, 2024

      Smothered with extra butter and crumbled feta cheese on top, such delicious savoury scones.

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  • ISBN 10 0393541118
  • ISBN 13 9780393541113
  • Published May 02 2023
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 288
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company

Publishers Text

Renowned for the wedding cake she created for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Claire Ptak knows there's nothing like a cake when it comes to expressions and celebrations of love. A Chez Panisse alum, Ptak is a Northern California native who now runs the wildly successful Violet Bakery in London. Reflecting on her upbringing and love of in-season produce, she shares 75 sweet and savory creations, including Huckleberry Basil Sugar Scones, Peaches and Cream Angel Food Cake, and a strawberry-coconut meringue cake. Her bakes are homey yet elevated, made with the best possible ingredients, so as to extract the best possible flavors. Included are gluten-free, refined sugar-free and vegan bakes, as well as the sought-after recipe for the Duke and Duchess's lemon elderflower cake.

Featuring gorgeous photographs shot in both England and California, Love is a Pink Cake is a treasure trove of inspiration for anyone eager to emulate Ptak's unique sensibility and dreamy creations in their own kitchen.

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