Product Description

A complete, basic, international baking book filled with delicious recipes for everything from biscuits, pastries and cakes to breads, crisp breads and accompanying jams and sauces. New exciting flavor combinations, such as chocolate cupcakes and toffee and pecan pie are featured alongside classics like muffins, meringues and cheesecake as well as nine different flavorings for basic sponge cakes. Recipes for brioche, fougasse from Provence, sourdough baguette and nine types of scones are mixed with healthy rolls, Danish rye bread, Leila's delicious lingonberry loaf and a whole range of tempting little cakes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #59389 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-25
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

Review
'an excellent introduction to baking' --Waitrose Food Illustrated

'(a) delicious looking book' --Easy Living

'tempting recipes, perfect for an alfresco afternoon tea with friends' --Food and Travel

'gorgeous' --Fresh Escapes

'Leila Lindholme makes cooking easy'
--The Lady

About the Author
Thirty-one-year-old chef Leila Lindholm, of Swedish-Moroccan background, began her career in the restaurant world. During her career as a chef, Leila has worked at several well-known restaurants including Aquavit in New York, Operakallaren and Fredsgatan 12 in Stockholm. Today she works primarily in TV. Her primetime cooking show is called Leila's Food and airs on Swedish lifestyle channel, TV4 Plus. She also frequently appears cooking her simple and fast recipes on the biggest morning show in Sweden, the TV4 Morning News show, whose viewers voted her "TV Chef of the Year" in 2004.

Customer Reviews

Very Pretty New Baking Book
I heard of Leila through articles in food magazines, and when there was mention of a cookbook (in English) I pre-ordered it pronto!

Leila comes across as a very nice lady, her recipes are lovely, with many variations on cakes, cupcakes and gereral delicious-ness! There are - as I hoped for - a good peppering of Swedish recipes including a Tosca Cake and Swedish Crispbreads. There are many many more recipes though such as Butterscoth Pecan Tart and the wonderfully named Chocolate Darlings, can't wait to get baking. Beautiful photography throught the book, makes it a very pretty read too.

Best ever baking book
I used this book as basis for my mother's birthday tea party and made lavender dream biscuits; speedy berry cake; spanish meringues; brownie cupcakes; blueberry muffins with crumble and almond cake with elderflower and fresh berries. Everything worked out absolutely perfectly, the instructions in the book are so clear and the timings are exact, the recipies therefore are simply foolproof. Needless to say the food tastes fabulous, the lavender biscuits are perfumed and light as a feather, the brownie cupcakes are divinely gooey and the elderflower custard on the almond cake is incredibly unusual. Without a doubt the best baking book I possess. Thank-you Leila.

Style over substance. This book is also sold under the title Sweet and Savoury Swedish Baking however this is very misleading
I was looking forward to this book as it is also published under the title of Sweet and Savoury Swedish Baking and I particularly wanted a comprehensive Swedish baking book so I found it a big disappointment to find the majority of the recipes are not Swedish, they are mainly French, English and lots of Italian. The few Swedish recipes are found mainly in the Bread section. And although her background is Swedish-Moroccan there were no recipes with a Middle-Eastern slant either. The recipes in the book are fairly mundane and easily found in other baking books. I found also found it irritating that her approach is to take one basic recipe such as Scones and then offer 9 variations on it. The same with Muffins and Sponge Cakes and so on and even Apple Crumble. This really means there are many fewer recipes than is at first apparent.

The publisher's blurb mentions Leila's "famous Lingonberry Cake" as part of the contents but search as I may, I have yet to locate it in this book.

The book is plentifully illustrated with rather too cutesy photographs of pretty children's picnic tables, picnic baskets, children's birthday party tables, pretty little girls daintily smudging their lips with cupcake icing and drinking Leila's homemade squash, not to mention numerous photos of Leila herself and this makes it very hard for me to take the recipes seriously. This is a baking book of style over substance. Not for serious bakers hoping to find new and inspirational recipes.