Love Is a Pink Cake: Irresistible Bakes 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 0393541126
  • ISBN 13 9780393541120
  • Published May 02 2023
  • Format eBook
  • Page Count 288
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company

Publishers Text

Named One of the Best Cookbooks of 2023 by the New York Times and WBUR's Here & Now

London’s East End meets Northern California in 75 indulgent bakes from the author of The Violet Bakery Cookbook.

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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