Julie Jones (2)

Soulful Baker: From highly creative fruit tarts and pies to chocolate, desserts and weekend brunch with Julie Jones, and Lisa Linder is one of those gorgeous cookery books that is great for any time of year, but especially for people who like to cook more around Christmas.

This is more than a cookery book, it's actually a lovely reminder of how the author and her mum began cooking together again, after her mum was diagnosed with dementia. As a form of mutual therapy they shared their joint love of
cooking over on Instagram and gained many followers.

These are simple recipes but done in such an elaborate way, I too was managed to fool people I was good at cooking! There are detailed ingredients and easy to understand methods to follow. Plus there are many equally tasty looking colourful photos to inspire you.

Beautiful and moving. Not the usual thing you'd say about a cookbook, right?

"Soulful Baker" is a bakery book with heart.… (mehr)

I have been fortunate in my cookbooks lately. This one is extraordinary. If I never make a thing from it I will still get so much joy from just looking at the photos. There are so many beautiful photos in this book.

Ms. Jones writes about her passion for baking which helped to ground her as she dealt with her mother’s worsening health problems. She is a true artist in pastry. Just look to her instagram feed to see some of the beauty she has created.

The recipes are a mix of simple and complicated. I would not call this a beginner’s cookbook by any stretch. There is an excellent section at the start to inform the reader as to what he/she will need to recreate the recipes in the book both equipment and pantry wise. Ms. Jones’s writing style is pleasant and you almost feel as if she is sitting across from you.

The recipes are a mix of the familiar and the new but it’s Ms. Jones’s execution of them that is so remarkable. She decorates her cakes, pies, tarts and cookies in such glorious ways that you almost don’t want to eat them.

In fact after looking through this book I was inspired when I made my last pie. I only decorated half as it was a compromise pie – have what I wanted and half what the hubby wanted. The left hand side of my pie was inspired by Ms. Jones’s work.

This is a beautiful book. Anyone who bakes will want to have it in their cookbook library.… (mehr)