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SUMMER AT LITTLE BEACH STREET BAKERY

SUMMER AT LITTLE BEACH STREET BAKERY

Little Beach Street Bakery #2

Jenny Colgan

Releasing March 22nd, 2016

William Morrow

The New York Times-bestselling author of Little Beach Street Bakery and Christmas at the Cupcake Café returns with a delightful new novel-with recipes!-that is already an international bestseller and is perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes, Meg Donohue, and Sophie Kinsella.

For fans of Jojo Moyes and Elin Hilderbrand, an irresistible novel—moving and funny, soulful and sweet—about happiness, heartache, and hope. And recipes.

A thriving bakery. A lighthouse to call home. A handsome beekeeper. A pet puffin. These are the things that Polly Waterford can call her own. This is the beautiful life she leads on a tiny island off the southern coast of England.

But clouds are gathering on the horizon. A stranger threatens to ruin Polly’s business. Her beloved boyfriend seems to be leading a secret life. And the arrival of a newcomer—a bereft widow desperately searching for a fresh start—forces Polly to reconsider the choices she’s made, even as she tries to help her new friend through grief.

Unpredictable and unforgettable, this delightful novel will make you laugh, cry, and long for a lighthouse of your own. Recipes included.

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Jenny is sharing a dynamite recipe for the 

EASIEST WHITE BREAD!

Yes! This was in the original Little Beach Street Bakery, and we are reprinting it because it is so simple, so good and so foolproof, that if you’ve never baked your own bread before, we cannot think of a better place to start. So have a go, and send me a pic! Jenny xxx

Ingredients:

700 g bread flour

1 sachet active dry yeast (2 ¼ tsp)

1 level tbsp.. salt

1 level tbsp. sugar

400 ml warm water

Directions:

Sift the flour, then warm it slightly in the microwave (I do 600w for one minute). Add the yeast, salt, and sugar, then the water. Mix.

Knead on a floury surface for a few minutes until it’s a nice smooth ball.

Leave for 2 hours while you read the papers or go for a stroll.

Knead again for a few minutes.

Leave again for an hour while you take a nice relaxing bath.

Heat the oven to 450 degrees and grease a bread tin.

Leave in the oven for 30 minutes, or until it makes a hollow noise when tapped on the bottom.

Leave to cool as long as you can stand it, then devour.

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Jenny Colgan is the New York Times-bestselling author of numerous novels, including Christmas at the Cupcake Café, Little Beach Street Bakery, and Meet Me at the Cupcake Café, all international bestsellers. Jenny is married with three children and lives in London and Scotland.

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CHRISTMAS AT THE CUPCAKE CAFE

Issy Randall, proud owner of The Cupcake Cafe, is in love and couldn’t be happier. Her new business is thriving and she is surrounded by close friends, even if her cupcake colleagues Pearl and Caroline don’t seem quite as upbeat about the upcoming season of snow and merriment. But when her boyfriend Austin is scouted for a possible move to New York, Issy is forced to face up to the prospect of a long-distance romance. And when the Christmas rush at the cafe - with its increased demand for her delectable creations - begins to take its toll, Issy has to decide what she holds most dear.

This December, Issy will have to rely on all her reserves of courage, good nature and cinnamon, to make sure everyone has a merry Christmas, one way or another. . .

Indulge yourself and your sweet-toothed friends with Jenny Colgan’s new novel, simply bursting with Christmas cupcake recipes and seasonal sugar-fuelled fun.

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Polar Bear Cupcakes

These little cakes are irresistible. Cut the liquorice into tiny eyes and a little nose, and use white buttons for the ears. Or if, like me, you hate liquorice, use chocolate chips. Try not to feel too sad when you bite into them; let’s face it, anyone who can eat a jelly baby can eat a coconut baby polar bear.

125g unsalted butter, at room temperature

125g caster sugar

2 large eggs, at room temperature

125g sifted self-raising flour

2 tsp vanilla extract

2 tsp milk

For this recipe you need two different sizes of cupcake tin, one smaller than the other. Preheat oven to 190°C/gas mark 5, and put paper cases in the tins. Beat butter and sugar together, then add eggs, flour, vanilla and milk and beat until the mix drops slowly off the spoon (add more milk if it won’t). Spoon into paper cases, put in oven. Check with a toothpick after 12 minutes – if it comes out clean, we’re ready.

For the topping

125g unsalted butter

250g icing sugar, sifted

1tsp coconut extract (you can also use Malibu, if you’re feeling frisky!)

splash of milk

desiccated coconut

chocolate chips, large and small

white chocolate buttons

Beat the butter and add the icing sugar, then add the coconut extract and the milk until you have a light frosting. Spread the frosting all over one small and one large cupcake, then stick them together so the little cake makes the polar bear’s head. Carefully roll the bear in the desiccated coconut.

Add chocolate chips to make the eyes and the nose, and the white chocolate buttons to make the ears – and voilà! Polar bear cupcakes!!!!

Merry Christmas!

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Jenny Colgan is the author of numerous bestselling novels, including Christmas at the Cupcake Café and The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris, which are also published by Sphere. Meet Me at the Cupcake Café won the 2012 Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance and was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller, as was Welcome to Rosie Hopkins’ Sweetshop of Dreams, which won the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2013. Jenny is married with three children and lives in London and France.

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