Saved By Cake

Book: Saved By Cake

Author: Marian Keyes

Publisher: Micheal Joseph

Guys! Following on from my recent interlude with Rachel Khoo, I have become rather enamored with cookery books and food writing. My level of skill has not progressed a bit, mind you, but some of the books have such pretty pictures!

This week, as college is finished and I had a few days off work, I decided to try baking. I purchased a mixing bowl:



and set to work.Well, I just wanted an excuse to buy the mixing bowl really. And it was on sale. But I still had to try and justify it somehow.

My efforts were wholly unsuccessful, but I did discover the sweetest cookbook ever. It's called Saved by Cake, and it's by the doyenne of women's fiction, Marian Keyes. Marian is the only chick lit author who I can read without wanting to kill-I love her! And now, she has written a cookbook!

The stuff in here is fantastic. There are all the usual suspects: blondies and brownies, muffins, cheesecake and scones (because if you are Irish and female, you have to be able to make scones. Even I can do them, and I fail at life). But there are also some mad, out-there creations: wasabi cupcakes, and a pear, almond and tahini tart for example. Like, what the hell? But they supposedly taste amazing.

Best recipe? Strawberry and Raspberry upside down cake. So delicious. And baked in the shape of a heart. Love. And even I was sort of able to make it.

Rating? Eight out of ten. It get's five just for the cover and the pics, and also for Marian's fab way of describing everything. My favourite bit was when she said that white chocolate 'suffers with it's nerves'...I love this woman.