Have Your Cake and Eat It: Nutritious, Delicious Recipes for Healthier, Everyday Baking

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Celebrity baker Mich Turner cooks up a smarter take on sweet treats; so you can learn how to have your cake and eat it. Her yummy recipes, which include cakes, cookies, meringues, bars, muffins and cupcakes, offer healthier choices with substitutions for refined sugar, gluten-free flours and fats with the addition of nutritional ingredients and superfoods. Savour (guilt-free!) Hummingbird Cupcakes,Pumpkin and Poppy Seed Loaf, Pierce Brosnan' Carrot Cake, Hazelnut Meringue with Mango and Passion Fruit, and other delicious bakes.

Mich Turner's pioneering work in the world of creative cake decoration means she is often described as the Queen of Couture Cakes. She originally trained as a Food Scientist and was Patisserie Buyer at Harvey Nichols before founding her hugely successful Little Venice Cake Company in 1999. She has baked over 10,000 cakes including those for Her Majesty The Queen, Madonna, Pierce Brosnan, Ozzy Osbourne, Gordon Ramsay, David Beckham, and Simon Cowell. She was Harper & Bazaar and Chanel Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 and is the author of five highly successful books: Spectacular Cakes (best Dessert Book, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards), Fantastic Party Cakes, Couture Wedding Cakes and Cake Masterclass (best book for food professionals, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards) and Cake School. Mich regularly demonstrates at international cake shows and has appeared as a judge on two series of the hugely successful ITV programme Britain's Best Bakery. She was honoured with a prestigious MBE medal from Her Majesty the Queen in 2010 for her services to the catering industry.

'Chic treats and celebrations from Mich Turner MBE, baker-by-request to royalty and to the stars.' * YOU Magazine: Mail on Sunday * 'Mich not only tells what we are going to need, but educates us on the why and how of baking! It's what turns it from a good baking book to an amazing one' * United Cakedom * 'Tempting and delicious, meet the healthier versions of your favourite cakes...' * Running in Heels * 'Flicking through the book, I found myself bookmarking every other page' * Pudding Lane * 'The onus is on us to make informed choices about the food we eat, cook and bake and, by golly, this book is informative!' * UK Handmade * 'Mich Turner's new book is not a health or diet book but offers knowledge of the nutritional benefits of the ingredients and provides alternatives you can choose to accommodate your lifestyle. From individual sweet treats, muffins, biscuits and bars, to cakes and meringue centrepieces, the book is packed with delicious recipes.' * Cakes & Sugarcraft Magazine *