Creative Éclairs


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A top baking blogger, bestselling cookbook author, and Great British Bakeoff finalist shows you anyone can make delicious éclairs at home. Choux is often thought of as being difficult to make, but if you follow Ruth Clemens’s rules, you’ll find it’s the quickest and easiest pastry you’ll ever make. In this step-by-step guide, you will find: · Foolproof advice on making and piping choux pastry · Simple recipes for delicious fillings and toppings · Easy steps for filling, dipping, and splitting éclairs · Quick tips for making sugar flowers and decorations Discover just how easy it is to make choux for any occasion—from classic chocolate éclairs to fun, fruity flavors, scrumptious profiteroles, to an impressive croquembouche. All the tips and tricks you need are right here!




Simply Sweet Dream Puffs


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Learn to make cream puffs, eclairs, profiteroles, and more starting with just five simple ingredients! This adorable cookbook shows how easy it is to create delicious desserts at home. Step-by-step instructions demonstrate how to create the perfect pate a choux puff pastry shell. Once you've mastered the basics, you'll find festive dessert recipes ranging from classic chocolate eclairs to colorful party puffs to gooey ice cream-topped profiteroles. Author Barbara Schieving - the baking extraordinaire behind the blog Barbara Bakes - offers tips for whipping up light-as-air custard filling and rich glazes, along with plenty of creative inspiration. Dress up these petite sweet treats with fanciful flavors such as Mango, Orange Honey, S'mores, and Churro, or present them stacked high with eye-catching sprinkles. Filled with bright, lively photographs, the book's playful design has major eye candy appeal.




The Pink Whisk Guide to Bread Making


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Ruth Clemens, finalist on BBC's highly successful TV series The Great British Bake Off, shares her delicious bread recipes, fitting for all occasions. Each of the 30 recipes shows you how to get confident with straightforward doughs, to progress to pre-ferments and experiment with further methods. Along with clear step-by-step instructions, the recipes are crammed with tips and tricks to ensure that you'll be turning out delicious homemade loaves in next to no time.




Patisserie Maison


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From the author of the award-winning cookbooks Crust and Dough comes a definitive, accessible guide to make patisserie at home Patisserie, the art of the maître pâtissier, is the most admired style of baking in the world and requires the highest level of skill. In this new book master baker and bestselling author Richard Bertinet makes patisserie accessible to home bakers. Richard effortlessly guides you through challenging techniques with step-by-step photography and more than 50 easy-to-follow recipes for the most revered and celebrated biscuits, sponges, meringues, tarts, eclairs, and other classic desserts. With Richard's expert help, you will soon be creating authentic sweet tarts, bavarois, galettes, macarons, and mousses. With creations including Lavender and Orange Eclairs, Gateau Saint Honore, Tarte Tropizienne, Paris Brest, and Cassis Kir Royal Mousse, Patisserie Maison opens up the world of divine sweet creations to novices as well as more experienced cooks. Includesm metric measures.




Modern Éclairs


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“Finally, an antidote to cupcake fatigue . . . shows how éclairs can serve as a base for everything from ice cream sandwiches to lobster rolls.”—Entertainment Weekly Move over, macarons; catch you later, cupcakes: Éclairs are the new pastry du jour. Delicious and adorable—and fun to make at home—these tiny treats are the perfect vehicles for all your favorite flavors (sweet and savory). Here, pastry chef Jenny McCoy shares incredible recipes for éclairs and all their relatives: cream puffs, profiteroles, Paris-Brests, religieuses, gougères, and more. The best part is that all of these creations are made from the same simple choux pastry: Once you master the basic recipe, it’s endlessly customizable, from Lemon Meringue Éclairs to “Whoopie Puffs” to New England “Lobster Rolls.” Recipes include traditional, fruity, chocolate, frozen, savory, and holiday-themed iterations, some classic, some clever—but all irresistible. “Jenny’s modernistic approach to the classic éclair is perfection—inventive, playful, and free-spirited. Her whimsical charm as a baker presents itself on every page.”—Sarabeth Levine, James Beard Award-winning pastry chef and owner of Sarabeth’s Bakery “Jenny McCoy’s Modern Éclairs takes you on a pâte à choux journey to making the best éclairs, cream puffs, and everything in between. Get ready for a fun and creative ride!”—Mindy Segal, James Beard Award-winning pastry chef and owner of HotChocolate




French Pastry Made Simple


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A No-Fuss Guide to the Delicious Art of Pâtisserie Unleash your inner pastry chef with Molly Wilkinson’s approachable recipes for all of your French favorites. Trained at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, Molly takes the most essential techniques and makes them easy for home bakers, resulting in a collection of simple, key recipes that open up the world of pastry. With friendly, detailed directions and brilliant shortcuts, you can skip the pastry shop and enjoy delicious homemade creations. Master base recipes like 30-minute puff pastry, decadent chocolate ganache and fail-safe citrus curds, and you’re on your way to making dozens of iconic French treats. You’ll feel like a pro when whipping up gorgeous trays of madeleines and decorating a stunning array of cream puffs and éclairs. Along with classics like The Frenchman’s Chocolate Mousse, Profiteroles and Classic Mille-Feuilles, learn to assemble exquisite showstoppers such as Croquembouche and Caramel Mousse Tartelettes with Poached Pears in Ginger. This go-to guide shows you all the tips and tricks you need to impress your guests and have fun with French pastry.




Baker's Royale


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Baker's Royale turns basic desserts upside-down with addictive flavors and gorgeous presentations: the only sweets book you'll need this year! Baker's Royale is a dessert cookbook that revisits-and revamps-classic recipes for the modern baker. Naomi Robinson thinks outside the cake mix box in her kitchen and on her site, BakersRoyale.com, mixing and matching for mash-ups that wow. Her exciting flavor combinations and eye for the easiest show-stoppers struck a chord, and readers clamored for more of her inventive sweets. The book includes 75 classic recipes with a twist: Burnt Caramel Custard Pie French Silk Crunch Cake Cannoli Cakelets Raspberry Almond Opera Cake Apple Pie Marshmallows Shortcuts like premade cookie dough and candy garnishes make these desserts as practical as they are fanciful. Stunning photography throughout showcases Naomi's unique style, which is as delicious as it looks.




Mon Cher Éclair


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Recipes that show you how to turn the classic French dough into modern-day pastries bursting with bold new flavors and bright colors—plus savory delights. Taking the love of French pastries into the kitchen, Mon Cher Éclair shows how rewarding it is to make these delectable treats at home. Using just a couple of simple techniques, home cooks can easily master the basic recipe for pâte à choux dough and use it to make beautiful éclairs with modern flavor combinations such as butterscotch-bourbon or Meyer lemon cream. The dough is also the base for an array of profiteroles and cream puffs, which make great appetizers and desserts. With more than forty recipes ranging from traditional to trendy, savory to sweet, rustic to artistic, this small cookbook will make home cooks look like a very big deal. “Food writer Charity Ferreira’s collection of éclair recipes was influenced by desserts around the world that all translate splendidly into the custard-filled pastry we all know and love. Ever wish your éclair was filled with Nutella instead of plain old regular delicious pastry cream? Now’s the time!” —Food Republic




Digital Marketing Excellence


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Now in its sixth edition, the hugely popular Digital Marketing Excellence is a practical guide to creating and executing integrated digital marketing plans, combining established approaches to marketing planning with the creative use of new digital models and digital tools. Written by two highly experienced digital marketing consultants, the book shows you how to: Draw up an outline integrated digital marketing plan Evaluate and apply digital marketing principles and models Integrate online and offline communications Implement customer-driven digital marketing as part of digital transformation Reduce costly trial and error Measure and enhance your digital marketing Learn best practices for reaching and engaging your audiences using the key digital marketing platforms. This new edition has been streamlined to seamlessly integrate the latest developments in digital analytics, ethics and privacy, Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Including new international case studies and up-to-date examples throughout, this book cuts through the jargon to show marketers how to leverage data and digital technologies to their advantage. Offering a highly structured and accessible guide to a critical and far-reaching subject, Digital Marketing Excellence, 6th edition, provides a vital reference point for all digital marketing students, and managers involved in digital marketing strategy and implementation. Online resources have been fully updated for the new edition and include a new set of PowerPoint slides and a full test bank of questions and exercises.




Evil Eclairs


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Donut shop owner Suzanne Hart admits her sweet treats don't exactly qualify as health food. But does she really deserve to be labeled a "killer" by local radio jockey Lester Moorefield? The annoying host is urging citizens to boycott Suzanne's "deadly dough" factory—until he's found dead himself, stuffed with one of Suzanne's éclairs... Everyone in April Springs knows about the feud between Lester and Suzanne, which makes her the number-one suspect. She tries to use the donut defense—donuts don't kill people, people kill people—but that cream-filled éclair at the scene of the crime has the whole town filled with suspicion. If Suzanne can't figure out who killed the radio star, she'll soon be filling a prison cell instead of a pastry...