Baking with Bake to Black recipe book
I love cake. It’s one of my downfalls, with chocolate, pastries, biscuits…oh just food in general.
But cake is something that the whole of our house like. Unlike other foods which the OH will faff over and not eat if I buy them, cake will pretty much always get eaten (unless it’s ‘too dry’. He’s fussy, just warm it up and eat it with cream, custard or ice cream to soften it!).
As I’ve written many times before, we’re also music lovers. N and his dad are both fans of heavy rock, so when I was approached to try out the new Bake to Black recipe book from Music Room, I jumped at the chance.
The book’s a fun take on baking. Every recipe is inspired by – and quite often in the design of – rock songs and bands. And it’s not just cakes, there’s biscuits, pastries, donuts, large and small cakes for you to bake. It made me laugh thinking of heavy rock stars like Ozzy Osbourne baking cakes.
I picked out a few (not too scary) bakes I fancied making. There’s quite a few on my to bake list, but the 2 I’ve already tried have both been a success with the tasters in the house. N turned down the chance to help me bake which was quite disappointing (the farm was too much of a draw). The recipes I tried were all straight forward enough to get children helping out.
One of the things that are essential in a cook book are photos for each recipe. I hate the books where you just want to see the finished product, and can’t see it. With Bake to Black, each cake is photographed…obviously because it helps make the link to the songs. Each cake also has a pun name – I found I was trying to guess the exact song title from the cake name, but I have to admit my rock song knowledge isn’t good enough for the variety of bands this recipe book covers.
The first bake I chose was the Hot for Teacher Hand Pies which are apple, maple syrup and rosemary pastries.
I personally prefer puff pastry to shortcrust so if I was to make them again I’d use puff pastry, but they went down well warm with ice cream, and N’s also had one cold as a snack after school.
My second creation was Baked at Birth, a white chocolate, raspberry and rosehip infused blondie.
These were delicious, and just gooey enough in the middle for me. Even the OH liked them, and he usually moans if they’re ‘fake’ brownies.
Alternatively you can buy Bake to Black from Music Room for around £14.99.
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Disclosure: I was sent the Bake to Black recipe book for the purpose of review. All words and opinions are my own.
Yummy prize
Love cookery books and I’d like to add this to my collection!
Looks yummy!
This Bake to Black recipe book looks like a fun way to bake,I really loved the back to birth,recipe,the name’s quite funny too.Fingers crossed I may win this and inspire me to bake more often x
Looks yum!
This looks a great book, thanks
A great prize
looks a fantastic book
What a great recipe book, you have been busy baking from it. I love the sound of apple, maple syrup & rosemary in the hand pies. Thanks for sharing 🙂
What a brilliant idea
I need this book – I do love cake! Thanks for linking up with #TriedTested
Such a unique idea, I love it x
I absolutely love the idea of this cookbook! it’s class. would be perfect for rocker who has a gentler baking side about them. have entered comp, hope i win. also looking forward to my marketing emails about bassoons!!
Lol. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to do a usual rafflecopter, but I’m sure bassoon music will be of essential reading!
They were really tasty Fiona. Doesn’t help with me starting my diet.
Such a clever idea to use music in the recipes. Some of those look absolutely yummy!
There’s so many on the list I want to try. It’s not helping my diet.
Haha I love the way they have incorporated song names in to the recipe names and the book itself, so clever. I wouldn’t mind trying out a few of those recipes myself!
There are some really nice looking recipes.
Make sure you enter the competition and you might win a copy
Wow, you are a regular baker! What beautiful bakes you made, I’m suddenly hungry. The Bake in BLack cook book looks really sharp – love the layout & large feature images x
My OH says it’s like a bus with my baking. Don’t see anything for ages, then loads come at once! And usually happens at the same time as his mum baking and sister in law, so we end up with cakes coming out our ears! I also love the large photos in the book – so much better for recipe books than only sporadic photos.
Love the idea of this cookbook! #triedtested
Cake is my favourite treat. I love it. Im so glad i’m not very good at baking otherwise I would be baking it all the time. Looks like a great cookbook though
That is an inspired theme for a cookbook isn’t it? Your bakes look delicious, the blondies in particular look mouthwatering.
Thanks Nicola. They really were delicious. Not good for my waistline
The pictures are fantastic and the food you have cooked looks amazing. I love baking and cooking however with 2 kids I hardly ever have time to do it for pleasure mainly its just for tea I cook.
Only way to do it is get the kids involved. Either they’ll love it and want to take over, or like N will just do the mixing, then get bored and wander off until it’s tasting time.
The recipes you have made look delicious, I wish I could bake/cook as well as you! love the idea of this book, make a great gift too!
OOOOOH! This looks a book I want to put on my Christamas list this year.
I will have a competition running soon for one too so keep a watch out!
This is fab! My two big loves…food and music! Perfect combo! These recipe names had me giggling! x
They are fun names although I did struggle to work out some of the original names!
Oh my, what a funky cookbook! I like the style of the book, it’s very different!
Cakes are my weakness too, your bakes really do look good and I agree I always need a photo so I know what I should be creating.
I hate when they don’t have photos, and I’m frantically trawling through the books trying to look for them. Grr.