Welcome to the most celebrated patisserie competition in Paris – ready, steady, bake!
Watching snowflakes settle on the Eiffel Tower, Rachel Smithson’s cosy English village feels very far way – as, thankfully, does her commitment-phobic ex, probably already kissing someone else under the mistletoe. But Rachel hasn’t come to Paris to mope she’s come to bake. Hard. Because the search for Paris’s next patisserie apprentice is about to begin! And super-chef judge Henri Salernes is an infamously tough cookie. But Rachel isn’t about to let her confidence (or pastry) crumble.
She’s got one week, mounds of melt-in-the-mouth macaroons and towers of perfect profiteroles to prove that she really is a star baker. As well as clouds of flour, and wafts of chocolate and cinnamon, there’s definitely a touch of Christmas magic in the air…
Rachel hasn’t come to Paris looking for a fairy-tale romance, but the city of love might gift-wrap her one anyway…
I was really excited to start The Parisian Christmas Bake
Off, I love Christmas themed books and I also love books that feature baking
but I was also a little worried as I have never watched The Great British Bake
off so I wasn’t sure if this was going to be a problem but lucky for me it didn’t
effect reading this book at all in fact if you have never watched a cooking
program in your life it doesn’t matter you will still enjoy this one.
Rachel is feeling down and thanks to everyone back home they
have sent her away for Christmas to Paris to compete to become top chef Henri
Salernes’s patisserie apprentice. The heat is on in the competition but Rachel
soon begins to put everything she has into her baking and showcases the most
tasty treats to try and win not only the completion but to also get her
happiness and confidence back again so she can start living again.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book it had a sprinkling of
festivity, a touch of romance and a glorious amount of mouth-watering baking! I
don’t think I have ever felt so hungry reading a fiction book before. The
descriptive writing sets a gorgeous setting of Paris that makes you feel as
though you are being transported there with the characters. The authors descriptive writing didn't stop here, when the contestants were in the kitchens competing the tastes, smells, and how things visually looked all seemed to pop out from the book I was like a kid in a sweet shop! I loved Rachel
although a couple of times in the book she did really frustrate me but she quickly
redeemed herself. One part of the book
that I had predicted completely threw me when it came clear that I was wrong
and I do love this in a book, something unexpected. After reading this I will look
forward to future releases by Jenny Oliver.
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