The Hummingbird Bakery: Home Sweet Home

The Hummingbird Bakery: Home Sweet Home

The Hummingbird Bakery is back and in this stunning new cookbook they celebrate classic home baking with inspirational recipes and fail-safe advice on how to achieve baking perfection in the comfort of your own kitchen.

Home Sweet Home includes 100 mouth-watering recipes. From quick and easy cookies and tray bakes, deliciously simple cheesecakes and savouries to original cupcakes, fruity pies, comforting cobblers, impressive layer cakes and roulades, the Hummingbird team offer recipes that will appeal to novice home bakers and confident pie-makers alike.

Home Sweet Home includes many of the Hummingbird baker’s all-time favourite cakes, plus plenty of flavours inspired by the bakery’s hugely popular Daily Specials; all with their own gorgeous photograph and some helpful step-by-step images.

Ginger Chocolate, Cinder Toffee, and Strawberry Milkshake Cupcakes, Sweet Dough Lemon Loaf, Red Velvet Roulade, Maple and Walnut Streusel Cake, Cherry Pie and Thumbprint Cookies - from everyday baking to something a bit special, The Hummingbird Bakery’s beautiful and practical new book offers delicious reasons to get into the kitchen and enjoy your own home-made treats.

Tarek Malouf opened the first Hummingbird Bakery on London’s Portobello Road in 2004. It was an instant success with queues outside the door.

Since then four more bakeries have opened in South Kensington, Soho, Shoreditch and Islington, with the first non-UK bakery opening in the Dubai Mall in 2012.

Tarek grew up in London and studied at university in London and Los Angeles. While working for America’s ABC News network Tarek noticed that the range of indulgent, high-quality cakes and bakes loved by Americans was almost non-existent in the UK.

He decided it was time to bring these treats to the British public. After attending baking classes in New York in order to understand the different ingredients and techniques, then devising recipes and tirelessly testing them on friends and family, The Hummingbird Bakery was born. Home Sweet Home is Tarek’s third cookbook.