Michael Joseph Jamie's Food Tube: The Cake Book

I am an experienced baker, although my forte has been bread making and the odd cookie. There has been sponge cakes and such, but nothing elaborate.I have watched every single Cupcake Jemma video, and I have baked from her book. I can vouch 100% that the recipes work and that they are foolproof. I've even adapted the cupcake recipes to make cakes, which has been successful.The fears of the cakes being too sweet and that there is too much icing is hogwash. It's a cake, it's supposed to be insanely decadent! Also, you are able to adjust how much frosting you want on your cakes, so it isn't that hard to personalise.The recipes are for 24 cupcakes, or large cakes that can easily serve 12. The recipes can easily be halved as its all in metric, but I wouldn't recommend this to the cakes, because they are glorious in their full sizes. I've baked so much from this book and given copies as presents. Every single person that has eaten the cakes have been blown away.Cupcake Jemma, I salute you. This little book is epic!

I have now tried several of Gemma's recipes from here. Yesterday I made her Toffee Apple Cupcakes and they have been deemed the best cupcakes ever!! They actually did taste like the one I bought from her Crumbs & Doilies shop in Soho last week. Gemma is such a refreshing baker - I love all her videos on YouTube ... they actually become quite compulsive viewing. I find the recipes accurate - in fact, when I thought I knew better yesterday and made less buttercream than she recommended, I was a little short to finish the batch.The cupcake recipes can always be adapted to larger cakes or, indeed, vice versa.Super little book and well worth buying.

Even though I have many books with cake and cupcake recipes and I bake since I don't know when, this little book was a treat. It has some very interesting recipes, not only the traditional ones and some tips that other books won't mention unless you buy a book that specializes on those stuff. The result is guaranted, the taste amazing. The portions mentioned for frosting were taunting at first thinking that it would make the cake way too sweet but there is such balance that you don't need to be scared of the recipe. After all you can adjust how much frosting you want. I'm very happy having this book in my collection.

I’ve been baking for a few years, so was looking for different cake recipes, I came across one of Jemma’s and tried and omgosh they are delicious. My staff are happy to try out new recipes every week and so is my partners work colleagues. Loved her cakes so much I bought the book. I found some ingredients in the book are not the same on her YouTube channel, but just added it to the book. Love your cakes Jemma

Thais is a brilliant book , I've read and used it so many times since I bought it, I actually make low fat , healthy cakes but use this book for tips , ideas and flavours , very informative and a great book to have regardless of the types of caked your making .