While it is relatively easy to adapt to special diets when cooking savoury dishes, trying to recreate cakes without wheat flour and dairy is more of a challenge. Julia Thomas has some splendid recipes on offer, including favourites such as Cupcakes and Victoria Sponges and also some Mediterranean cakes made with almonds and hazelnuts. You don’t have to hunt down weird ingredients, the cakes are easy to make and won’t take forever, brimful of delicious recipes, Julia Thomas’s new book is a great addition to the range of books catering for restricted diets.

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Synopsis

An irresistible collection of easy-to-make recipes from the award-winning home bakery. Enjoy truly delicious cakes and bakes that are free from gluten, wheat or diary. Light and fluffy sponges, gorgeous cupcakes, rich fruit cakes and moreish traybakes - all without butter, flour or cream.

Julia Thomas, the talented home cook behind the popular Cake Angels bakery, shares her secrets for a delicious range of well-loved cakes that everyone can enjoy, even if they have an intolerance or allergy. Cake Angels takes you step-by-step through the secrets of successful baking, explains frequently used ingredients and provides easy-to-follow recipes that even novice bakers will feel confident making. These cakes look impressive -- with tempting frostings and pretty decorations - but don't require hours in the kitchen nor resort to hard-to-find specialty ingredients.

Divided into simple chapters and with inspiring photographs, this gorgeous, much-needed cookbook includes: Victoria sponge Carrot cake Chocolate, vanilla and lemon cupcakes with different frostings Chocolate and walnut brownies Date and caramel shortcake Raspberry and almond traybake Coffee and walnut cake with coffee cream Italian hazelnut cake Orange and poppy seed cake Chocolate marmalade cake with chocolate cream filling Flapjacks Apricot and hazelnut traybake Gingerbread cupcakes with ginger caramel frosting White chocolate blondies.

Reviews

'these cupcakes are so light and moist you'd be hard pressed to taste the difference'
Best magazine

'exquisite' 'awarded Two Gold Stars', Great Taste Awards'

About the Author

Julia Thomas established the award-winning free-from bakery, Cake Angels, after being diagnosed with breast cancer during pregnancy. Being a lifelong baker and cake lover, Julia was determined to still enjoy delicious cakes while following nutritional advice to remove diary from her diet. As she began to recover, she also began to experiment. Her cakes were such a success that she was soon asked to bake wheat-, gluten- and diary-free cakes for friends and family. A year of research and testing later and Cake Angels was born. It now delivers great-tasting cakes nationwide through www.cakeangels.co.uk. Julia lives in Hereford with her husband and son, Charlie. She continues to bake every cake in her home kitchen. More books by this author Author 'Like for Like' recommendation