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Finch Bakery: Sweet Homemade Treats and Showstopper Celebration Cakes

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Welcome to the wonderful world of Finch Bakery!

Lauren and Rachel Finch, founders of Finch Bakery, share their best-kept secrets to decorating all-out celebration cakes and let you in on their top baking techniques to create indulgent brownies and cupcakes, decadent macarons, stuffed cookies of every kind, and your very own versions of their indulgent signature cake jars.

Packed with crowd-pleasing classics and desserts to impress, this bestselling baking book has the treat to satisfy every sweet tooth, every time:

-        Over 80 Instagram-ready baking recipes
-        15 step-by-step baking technique tutorials for beginners
-        Mix-and-match your favorite flavor combinations for sponges, fillings, buttercream, and toppings to build your own creations

This gorgeous baking book is an unashamed celebration of sugar!

Discover the hidden secrets to show-stopping bakes from tempering chocolate and leveling cakes, to crumb coating, piping, and scraping techniques. You'll learn the basics of cake decorating and baking before exploring indulgent flavor combinations.
Recipes are designed to be standalone, but some also work in a build-a-block way so you can make your own creation by swapping the sponge, filling, sauce, or topping to satisfy your sweet tooth. With inventive creations and essential techniques, this is a whole new world of cake.

A Sunday Times Bestseller

The Finch Bakery
is your guide to creating mouth-watering homemade treats that are a success every time! This baking book includes a wide range of delightful treats that you can make at home. Explore delicious cupcakes, scones, cookies, cake balls, cake jars, traybakes, no-bake cakes, and celebration cakes. Get creative with classic recipes like lemon drizzle, decadent cookie cups, and Nutella everything - there is something for everyone!

A showstopper in the kitchen, and on your coffee table, The Finch Bakery book is the ultimate baking gift for teenagers and adults alike. Get ready to show off your best baking achievements with the help of the Finch Bakers.

ISBN-13: 9780241515105

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: DK

Publication Date: 12-14-2021

Pages: 240

Product Dimensions: 7.60(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.90(d)

Lauren and Rachel Finch are expert bakers, who set up the Finch Bakery, a small, fun-loving cake shop in the North West. Lauren and Rachel are twin sisters who had a passion for creating deliciousness! Cake artists, brownie bakers, cake jar makers and LOL providers their bakery makes bespoke cake creations and, during lockdown set up a home delivery service mailing out thousands and thousands of brownie trays, cupcakes, ‘cakeaways’ (1-lb loaf cakes) and cake jars. They bake daily and sell out within minutes of release at midday. Starting as a university hobby and baking out of their parents’ kitchen, Lauren and Rachel Finch opened the Finch Bakery doors in Great Harwood in April 2016 and have never looked back. In the blink of an eye, a business that started out as a calorific hobby has quickly transformed into a shop, 3 industrial units, 30+ jobs, a van, and an online service, all while keeping their reputation of being THE place to get your favourite goodies and cake wonders from. https://www.finchbakery.com/

Table of Contents

Welcome to Finch Bakery 6

Finch Basics

Equipment 10

Ingredients 11

Lining tins 12

Colourings 14

Flavourings and sprinkles 15

Buttercream 16

Chocolate ganache 18

Fillings 20

Piping bags and nozzles 24

Piping techniques 26

Tempering chocolate 30

Tempered chocolate decorations 32

Assembling cakes 34

Naked cakes 36

Crumb coating and applying buttercream 38

Smoothing buttercream 40

Scraper techniques 42

Drip techniques 50

Half and half cake 52

Cake jar tutorial 54

Celebration Cakes, Cupcakes & Cake Jars

Classic Victoria sponge 58

Chocolate fudge cake 62

Funfetti layer cake 66

Cherry Bakewell cake 70

Carrot cake 76

Candy floss cake 80

Red velvet cake 84

Peanut butter cake 88

Sticky toffee pudding cake 94

Lotus Biscoff cake 98

Creme Egg cake 102

Vanilla and chocolate half and half cake 106

Cookies & Cookie Cups

Chewy chocolate chip cookies 112

Chunky chocolate chip cookies 114

Pumpkin spice cookies 116

Red velvet stuffed cookies 118

Nutella stuffed cookies 120

Lotus Biscoff stuffed cookies 122

Cookie dough stuffed cookies 124

S'mores cookies 126

Giant personalized cookie 128

White chocolate ganache cookie sandwiches 130

Milk chocolate ganache cookie sandwiches 132

Raspberry and white chocolate ganache cookie sandwiches 134

Dark chocolate and sea salt ganache cookie sandwiches 136

Red velvet cookie sandwiches 138

Funfetti cookie cups 140

Lotus Biscoff and caramel cookie cups 142

Cookie dough cookie cups 144

Peanut butter cookie pie 146

Tray Bakes

Chocolate brownies 150

Chocolate caramel brownies 152

Creme Egg brownies 154

Slutty brownies 156

Vegan chocolate chip brownies 158

Loaded white chocolate blondies 160

Jammie Dodger blondies 162

Apple and cinnamon blondies 164

Frosted unicorn blondies 166

Lemon and blueberry blondies 168

Chocolate orange blondies 170

S'mores brownie pie 172

Banoffee pie 174

Cinnamon rolls 176

No Bakes

Summer fruits white chocolate cheesecake 180

Battenberg cheesecake 182

Triple-layered cookie dough cheesecake bar 184

Lemon and ginger cheesecake 186

Hard candy lollipops 188

Milk chocolate rocky road 190

White chocolate rocky road 192

Salted caramel rocky road 194

Lotus Biscoff rocky road 196

Hot chocolate bombs 198

Peanut butter cups 200

Chocolate ganache balls 202

Geo-heart cake shapes 204

Cake pops and cakesicles 205

Small Bakes

Classic scones 210

Lemon and blueberry scones 212

Cinnamon roll scones 214

Basic macaron shells 216

Battenberg macarons 220

Candy floss macarons 222

Caramel mocha macarons 224

Unicorn macarons 226

Strawberry doughnut macarons 228

Ice cream cone cupcakes 230

Terms and translations 232

Conversions 233

Index 234

Acknowledgements 239