Learn to bake with Britain's favourite women's fiction author Marian Keyes
- author of Watermelon" & " Anybody Out There"
- in her startlingly honest cook-book " Saved by Cake". " Saved by Cake" gives an extremely honest account of Marian Keyes' recent battle with depression & how baking has helped her. A complete novice in the kitchen Marian decided to bake a cake for a friend & that was it
- she realized that baking was what she needed to do in order to get her through each day. & so she baked & she wrote her recipes down & little by little the depression started to lift along with her sponges... With chapters on cupcakes cheesecakes meringues & macaroons chocolate cakes fruit cakes & favourite classics Marian's recipes are aimed firmly at beginner bakers offering hints & tips to help along the way. Never patronizing always honest & witty accessible & full of fun the bakes & cakes that Marian serves up in this cookbook will put a smile on your face & make you happy. From her Consistently Reliable Cupcakes & Very Chocolately Macaroons to the ease of her Fridge-set Honeycomb Cheesecake you will want to have a go at making all of Marian's recipes. The shoe & handbag biscuits particularly. Very covetable. Very Marian. " Medically speaking there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one. Whatever was going on with me I had to wait it out. I had to find ways of passing the time until I was restored to myself again. So I baked a cake
- a chocolate cheesecake as it happens. & I enjoyed making it so much that I baked another. & another". (Marian Keyes). Marian Keyes is the international bestselling author of " Watermelon" " Rachel's Holiday" " Last Chance Saloon" " Sushi for Beginners" " Angels" " The Other Side of the Story" & " This Charming Man". Her two collections of journalism " Under the Duvet" & " Further Under the Duvet" are also available from Penguin."