Saved by Cake: Over 80 Ways to Bake Yourself Happy
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (979 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0452299055 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bellingham Bookworm said Marian Keyes, Unblinking Honesty & Recipes, All My Favorite Things, yay!. Having read every book Marian Keyes has written, I can't tell you how excited I was when I read she had a new book coming out in February "Marian Keyes, Unblinking Honesty & Recipes, All My Favorite Things, yay!" according to Bellingham Bookworm. Having read every book Marian Keyes has written, I can't tell you how excited I was when I read she had a new book coming out in February 2012. No matter that it wasn't going to be released in the U.S.A. for a quite a while. I decided to blow my book budget and order it from Amazon.uk and pay the crazy amount for shipping they were going to charge me. This is MARIAN KEYES after all.I received the book about 10 days after it was released in the U.K. I was not disappointed. The cover is beautiful, the forward from Marian is unblinking honest and heartfelt, the recipes are written in easy to understand directions (exce. 01"Marian Keyes, Unblinking Honesty & Recipes, All My Favorite Things, yay!" according to Bellingham Bookworm. Having read every book Marian Keyes has written, I can't tell you how excited I was when I read she had a new book coming out in February 2012. No matter that it wasn't going to be released in the U.S.A. for a quite a while. I decided to blow my book budget and order it from Amazon.uk and pay the crazy amount for shipping they were going to charge me. This is MARIAN KEYES after all.I received the book about 10 days after it was released in the U.K. I was not disappointed. The cover is beautiful, the forward from Marian is unblinking honest and heartfelt, the recipes are written in easy to understand directions (exce. . No matter that it wasn't going to be released in the U.S.A. for a quite a while. I decided to blow my book budget and order it from Amazon.uk and pay the crazy amount for shipping they were going to charge me. This is MARIAN KEYES after all.I received the book about 10 days after it was released in the U.K. I was not disappointed. The cover is beautiful, the forward from Marian is unblinking honest and heartfelt, the recipes are written in easy to understand directions (exce. Richard Cumming said a very brave cookbook. Marian Keyes has been battling depression for years. She went on a hiatus from writing her best-selling novels. In the introduction to this new book she describes just how bad things had really gotten for her . Nothing seemed to make her feel better. Then one day she baked a cake for a friend. It felt good to do that. She kept on baking; cakes, pies, cookies, various delectable sweets.She doesn't promise that baking can help others but it has helped her. It distracts her from her depression. It calms her. And she has been baking some lovely things! This cookbook is gorgeous. And her comments for each recipe are tast. Cecelia Larsen said Dark humor + cakes = recipe for success!. Over a year ago I saw a fellow blogger's review of Marian Keyes' Saved by Cake, and I knew I wanted to read it posthaste. After all, the cookbook featured baked goods (my purview!) exclusively, and the author's voice was straight-up hilarious in the short excerpt. However, I couldn't find a listing for the US release date, and when I looked into purchasing an international edition, I realized I wouldn't do well with the metric weights and measurements.So I put it on my wishlist and waited. And waited. And then! It was finally available in April. I bought it immediately and it sat on my bookshelf for far too many mon
Since publishing her first novel in 1995, she's sold more than 22 million books worldwide.It is a crowded field, baking books. Yet Marian Keyes's stands out for its extremity. It’s girly, chatty, obsessed with shoes and quite camp. Just reading it is enough to cheer you up. It’s like a gossip around the kitchen table with your best friend. New ones appear every week. "this isn’t a book with gourmet pretensions. We can only thank her for her clarity and admire her courage." — London Evening Standard. Which is why she wrote it in the first place." — Daily Mail "Marian Keyes is one of the great pioneers of chicklit. Cake or die
Her simple and delicious recipes—from Consistently Reliable Cupcakes to Fridge-set Honeycomb Cheesecake—are guaranteed to tempt even the most jaded palate.. Refreshingly honest and wickedly funny, Saved by Cake shines with Keyes’ inimitable charm and is chockfull of sound advice. Beloved novelist Marian Keyes tackles the kitchen with a new cookbook featuring desserts that are both simple and delicious, with step-by-step instructions and stunning photography.“To be perfectly blunt about it, my choice sometimes is: I can kill myself, or I can make a dozen cupcakes. Written in Marian’s signature style, her take on baking is honest, witty, extremely accessible and full of f