Do you also love watching the spectacular cakes at Heel Holland Bakt? How great would it be if you could make one yourself. But where do you start? Is it something for you? Baking a cake is easy, but which filling goes well with it, how do you make a second layer and how do you spread it perfectly straight or with relief? Oh, and then the cake also needs some decoration. You can do that too, really! With a little help, everyone can learn to bake beautiful cakes.
In Zoets van Zeinab by Zeinab Alhashime-Bakker, Zeinab explains it all to you step by step with lots of photos. This beautiful book is actually a bit of a study book, one that makes you happy!
Let me introduce myself: Zeinab Alhashime-Bakker
In the 9th season of Heel Holland Bakt, Zeinab reached the finals. Vegan baker Enzo won the finals back then, but Zeinab was just as radiant in her stand full of colorful baked goods. The cheerful baker became Master Baker no less than 3 times, and that is probably partly because, in addition to great flavors, she always decorated her cakes beautifully.
After her HHB adventure , Zeinab regularly bakes cakes to order and occasionally gives workshops. She shares her talent for baking beautiful pastries and cakes and they come together in this new book: Zoets van Zeinab. A book that is very different from other baking books.
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Music while baking with Zeinab
Zeinab: "Baking and music go hand in hand for me and ensure that I can completely clear my head! That's why you will find five different playlists in this book named after the five flavours. The flavours are linked to a mood. For example, Zeinab's Sweet playlist is ideal if you are in a cheerful and happy mood....."
Start your sweet playlist and I'll show you what you can expect.
Sweets from Zeinab by Zeinab Alhashime-Bakker
The contents of Zoets van Zeinab by Zeinab Alhashime-Bakker concisely in images. Everything starts with the basics in terms of basic terms, ingredients, supplies and what to do with special diets. You will also find an overview of which ingredients go well together within the taste palette.
This is followed by chapters on cakes, fillings and creams followed by decorations.
In the how-to's you will find techniques that are explained step by step with photos so that you can get started too.
The results of previous chapters come together in the recipes of the cakes. By combining and varying the basic recipes you can make 400 different cake combinations!
This Napoleon cake is a variation on the classic French Napoleon cake with crispy puff pastry and a soft cream filling, a dream of a cake because of the texture and taste. All recipes have a beautiful photo; the recipes can be followed step by step and made yourself.
After the chapters with basic information, everything about the cake, fillings and creams, decorations and many how to's you will find a chapter full of showpieces.
Zeinab's Kazakh and Iraqi roots are often reflected in her baking. This Sesame-Saffron Cake is a good example of this. With the photo above I also show you how you can use the book. The cake is made with tahini-orange cake from the chapter cakes, is filled with Swiss cream with saffron from the chapter fillings and creams. In the chapter how to's you will learn how to cover a cake with a marble technique. The cake is decorated with Simsim cookies with lots of roasted sesame seeds from decorations & sweets.
More examples? Yes please!
What else can you expect? Well-known and lesser-known flavours that all look beautiful: lemon-coconut cake, rose cake, chocolate mousse cake, pistachio-orange meringue cake, banana-date cake, apple rumble-cinnamon cake, baklava cake and carrot cake.
Another ultimate example is this vanilla strawberry cake which is perfectly straight in the book, but is slightly distorted by my lens. Zeinab tells you all about the cake, building stable cake layers, the filling, how to make the dripping, the rustic icing and how to incorporate fresh flowers in a cake.
Sweets by Zeinab; so much more than just a book with beautiful cakes
Zoets van Zeinab is a beautiful basic book to learn how to bake spectacular pieces yourself. In addition to the many variations and possibilities, Zeinab teaches you how to get started yourself and how to vary with techniques and flavors. Due to Zeinab's Kazakh and Iraqi roots, you will find special worldly flavors here and there. Zoets van Zeinab is very accessible for the less experienced home baker, but the more experienced home baker will also find inspiration to their heart's content and learn to incorporate their own ideas when baking the ultimate cake.
Perhaps it is the ultimate book for the home baker who wants to practice and also wants to try baking in the big HHB tent himself....
Sweets from Zeinab by Zeinab Alhashime-Bakker
is available at the bookstore.
ISBN: 9789023017127
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