This is a text book for sugarcraft courses, designed to provide a basic understanding and a starting point for anyone embarking upon sugarcraft as a creative hobby or career. There are different sections that cover the basics such as baking simple cakes, and recipes for a selection of icings, marzipans and sugarpastes.
With more than 700 classic recipes, "The Big Book of Baking" is unique for both for the huge number and range of recipes offered as well as for the clarity and ease with which they are explained. With every recipe rated with 1 (simple), 2 (fairly simple), or 3 (complicated), home bakers at every level will find recipes they can be sure of alongside others that will challenge their culinary skills.
Beatrice Ojakangas, the author of Scandinavian Cooking and The Finnish Cookbook calls on her Scandinavian heritage and wide-ranging knowledge of Scandinavian baking to produce the definitive book on the subject. The emphasis is on ease of preparation, and all these unusual and tempting recipes will delight readers.
