A Good Day to Bake: Simple Baking Recipes for Every Mood

by Benjamina Ebuehi

Overview

"Whether you are an experimental baker or someone who likes to play it safe, you will find something to please you in this elegant book. Ebuehi's recipes always seem to work — no easy feat in a baking book." – Bee Wilson, The Times

A Good Day to Bake is full of 70 sweet and savory baking recipes for any day of the week, led by flavor. Going through the ritual of bringing out the measuring scales, pouring out flour, whipping up the eggs, stirring the batter and impatiently slicing up warm cake is a beautiful thing that deserves to be enjoyed all year round no matter the day, season or occasion.  This is a cookbook that embraces simplicity, mindfulness and the therapeutic comforts of baking. The Great British Baking Show's 2016 contestant Benjamina writes so warmly about cakes and her recipes speak to a natural, seasonal and down-to-earth way of baking. Chapters include Herbs & Tea, Stone Fruit & Berries, Vegetables, Best of Beige, Spice Cupboard, and Chocolate.  Because every day is a good day to bake.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787138018
Publisher:	Hardie Grant
Publication date:	03/01/2022
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	87,025
Product dimensions:	7.75(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.87(d)

About the Author

Benjamina Ebuehi writes recipes, styles and creates content for media, such as BBC Good Food, Waitrose Weekend and Guardian Feast as well as brands such as Sainsbury's, McVities, Lindt, Lyles Golden Syrup, Anthropologie, Baileys and Schwartz spices.

Benjamina is an ambassador for the incredible social enterprise Luminary Bakery, and co-founded, with her sister Bonita, The Sister Table (www.thesistertable.com), hosting pop-up brunches and supper clubs for women across London. Her food blog Carrot and Crumb (www.carrotandcrumb.com) was a finalist in the 2019 Saveur Blog Awards.

A Good Day to Bake is her second cookbook.

Editorial Reviews

"There may not be a better case for the stylishness of beige than Benjamina Ebuehi’s latest cookbook, A Good Day to Bake. The book’s clean minimalism and soft neutral hues set the stage for narrow slices of toasty malted brown butter pound cake and golden spirals of chamomile lemon dough. The 70 recipes prove that you don’t need much more than sugar, flour, and butter to massively improve your afternoon tea or coffee break." -TASTE

"An especially and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, family, and community library cookbook collections." - Midwest Book Review

"Of all the books I’ve pored over in 2022, “A Good Day to Bake” is the prettiest, an escape into a timeless English dream world of sticky toffee treacle tarts and split scones spread with clotted cream." -Jennifer Reese, The New York Times

"To borrow a bit from the GBBO judging criteria, Ebuehi is good with flavors. Her recipes are organized to emphasize this aspect of baking" -Eater

"Her confident, friendly demeanor and creative flavor combinations won me over." -Julie Chernoff, Better

"These are recipes for the everyday, when a craving strikes and an ordinary evening calls for a tart, some shortbread, or a pound cake that tastes way better than any non-occasion deserves." -Eater

"Combined with stunning photography and a dreamy aesthetic, these recipes feel modern yet approachable." -Janelle Bitker, Soleil Ho, and Elena Kadvany, The San Francisco Chronicle

"Channeling the therapeutic qualities behind the ritual of baking, A Good Day to Bake reminds its reader of the little joys of readying a workspace to create everyday goodies." -Kourtney Paranteau, Tasting Table

"Of all the books I’ve pored over in 2022, “A Good Day to Bake” is the prettiest, an escape into a timeless English dream world of sticky toffee treacle tarts and split scones spread with clotted cream." -Jennifer Reese, The New York Times

"To borrow a bit from the GBBO judging criteria, Ebuehi is good with flavors. Her recipes are organized to emphasize this aspect of baking" -Eater

"An especially and unreservedly recommended addition to personal, professional, family, and community library cookbook collections." - Midwest Book Review

"Combined with stunning photography and a dreamy aesthetic, these recipes feel modern yet approachable." -Janelle Bitker, Soleil Ho, and Elena Kadvany, The San Francisco Chronicle

"These are recipes for the everyday, when a craving strikes and an ordinary evening calls for a tart, some shortbread, or a pound cake that tastes way better than any non-occasion deserves." -Eater

"Her confident, friendly demeanor and creative flavor combinations won me over." -Julie Chernoff, Better

"A Good Day has a breezy, impulse-baking feel—you know, when you wake up on Sunday morning and think, “Scones?” (In those moments, rosemary and honey scones are the answer.)" -Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit

"There may not be a better case for the stylishness of beige than Benjamina Ebuehi’s latest cookbook, A Good Day to Bake. The book’s clean minimalism and soft neutral hues set the stage for narrow slices of toasty malted brown butter pound cake and golden spirals of chamomile lemon dough. The 70 recipes prove that you don’t need much more than sugar, flour, and butter to massively improve your afternoon tea or coffee break." -TASTE

From the Publisher

03/01/2022

Viewers of The Great British Baking Show will recognize Ebuehi as a 2016 quarterfinalist. The London-based baker and food stylist now contributes recipes to the Guardian and creates cookbooks (A New Way To Cake). Her sophomore effort, which she wrote during the early days of the COVID pandemic, focuses on the ways baking can support mood and mindfulness. It is a book of serene images and lovely, simple-with-a-twist bakes that offer comfort and flavor. Arranged by ingredient (herbs and teas; fruit and berries; vegetables; spices; chocolate), Ebuehi's recipes range from the unexpected (Roasted Veg Dutch Baby with Scotch Bonnet Jam) to delicious basics (vanilla bean cake). Each recipe is accompanied by an introduction in which Ebuehi gives baking tips and flavor notes or explains how the recipe was created. The recipes themselves are broken down into logical steps and often include further tips and instruction, which will make bakers feel as if Ebuehi is in their kitchen, offering advice. VERDICT The warm and comforting aesthetic of Ebuehi's serene and flavorsome book hits a perfect note. Readers of cookbooks and those more than ready to get baking will find plenty of joy and sweetness here.—Neal Wyatt

Library Journal