• Claire Ptak's baking recipes: ‘I'm a total cake for breakfast person'

    5 days ago - By The Guardian

    Chocolate hazelnut cake, vegan chocolate chip cookies, treacle tart with whipped cream - recipes from the Violet Cakes founder's new book, Love is a Pink Cake When I'm thinking up recipes, I'm trying to satisfy a craving,” says Claire Ptak, founder of Violet Cakes in east London. Her command of flavours and textures and the outright beauty of her creations has made her one of London's best-loved bakers, sought after by Hackney residents and royalty alike. But the craving comes first. “In the mornings, it's cake,” she says. “I'm a total cake-for-breakfast person, donuts too.” Her new book...
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