The Art of Bread Decoration (Best Cookbook of the Year 2021)

Let your bread delicacies also have a beautiful and unique appearance and attract the attention of your loved ones, friends and acquaintances. Beautifully decorated bread and ingeniously wrapped is also a beautiful gift that never collects dust. I guarantee it! By purchasing the book, you get access to video content. To make your work of art shine even more, wrap it in a unique way. You probably already have almost everything at home. The methods you find in the book are simple, but in their simplicity, heartwarming and beautiful. And this year, instead of other gifts, give artfully decorated bread, whether it's with yeast or leaven.
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Anita Šumer received the prestigious Best of the Best Gourmand World Cookbook 2021 award for her book The Art of Bread Decorating.The awards ceremony, considered the Oscars of cookbooks, took place in the city of Umea, Sweden, and Anita Šumer's book won first place in a competition of 1,558 books from more than 200 countries. Anita's third book, which contains a series of techniques for decorating bread and baking tricks, was nominated in five categories, which is an exceptional success and an excellent promotion of Slovenian cuisine.

What can you find in the book, which is unique in Slovenia and the world:

20 bread decorating techniques in words and pictures, ranked by difficulty

5 ways to wrap bread, suitable for different decorating techniques

More than 220 top-notch photos by photographer Niko Jarh and stylist Barbara Remec

9+ years of experience, tons of tricks and tips from over 9 years of bread decorating practice

Aesthetically and effortlessly designed pages by internationally awarded designer Petja Montanez

Loaf and loaf shaping and 2 basic recipes (with leavening or yeast)

Tips for baking and cooling bread

30 motifs for cutting a loaf

The More Inspiration section where I share with you other Instagram accounts that we have been following for years.

Caring for a proofing basket and what to use if you don't already have one

36 motifs for cutting bread

• 25 videos of decorating and wrapping bread

Learn 5 bread decorating techniques and how to combine all the techniques:

STENCILING - Truly the simplest way to decorate bread. I'll show you how to make your own stencil or use one you already have at home. In the book you'll find 3 types of stenciling step by step and I'll share tricks and tips with you to make your designs sharp, clear and long-lasting.

PAINTING ON DOUGH - Turn your dough or already baked bread into a real canvas for painting. Everything you need for this creation is written in this chapter: which dyes are best, when to apply them and with what.

SPREADS - You can quickly and easily spice up the appearance of bread with a variety of sprinkles. The book also contains ideas for creating motifs of various shapes and what you can use for them, as well as a recipe for the best leavening agent that will make your sprinkles stick to the dough like nails. I have collected 6 procedures for you, which are shown in words and pictures.

SLICING - This sharp artistic play is the most common way to decorate bread. And also the most extensive chapter in the book. You will also learn when the dough has risen properly, what angle of the incision is right, how deep the incision should be, what to do to prevent your bread from exploding during baking and to keep your motif intact. There are 6 different incision motifs described and illustrated.

BEAUTIFYING BREAD - A chapter where you decorate bread with dough decorations and even flowers. You'll learn how to prepare a special dough for making decorations, which flowers are most suitable and how to dry them to preserve their colors, when and how to apply them. Together we'll make a basket and fill it with flowers.

COMBINING ALL THE TECHNIQUES - Since the right order is important, this chapter covers just that. Based on the portrait from the cover and the sunflower bread, you will learn in which order to use the techniques that we have already mastered well.

Hardcover, 23 x 30 cm, 224 pages.