Self-Help Book with Baking

We were instructed to create a Self-help book that would help people with their lives and not to get confused with a Step by Step book that shows you and doesn't help you. I chose to do a baking self-help book, baking for people in your lives. Therefore getting closer to people, through the process of baking. We had to create 5 double pages spreads, cover, back and contents page. For my DPS i chose the following deserts:

1. Relationship cake - Coffee Souffle *coffee is an aphrodisiac and will get you going for that all nighter. Red is the colour of passion. 
2. Friendship cake - Vanilla Cupcakes *vanilla calms you down and makes you feel comfortable. This is exactly what friends do. Sprinkling the cup cakes can be done with friends as a bonding activity. Yellow is the colour of friendship.
3. Forgiveness cake - Chocolate Mousse Layer Cake *chocolate makes you feel better, therefore can forgive easier. Blue is the colour of sadness. 
4. Party Shots - Frangelico Mousse shots *Nuts make you energetic for the late night out and the alcohol helps you with confidence to go for the kill. Orange is the colour of energy. 
5. Hang Over Cure - Bloody Mary Shot *Tomatoes are very acidic and help your stomach readjust over the alcohol had taken over. Grey is the colour of gloomy.

My first attempt was to create hand drawn illustrations of the feelings you get from each cake. For relationships I drew the images of passion, kissing, holding hands and flowers.

    
I put these scans in photoshop and cut through the blank spaces, so that the ingredients needed to make the dessert for that double page spread, would show through the images. This was rejected as it looked to Chinese. 

I then started from scratch and overlapped the images above and overlay them in photoshop, to get an effect, which seems as the images are appearing through one another. This was rejected too. I was then directed to a photography based baking book, which seemed like a much more fun idea. After constructing each heading out of food and neatening each grain in photoshop, this quickly changed my mind up about fun.


Cover Page

Contents Page

Final DPS1


Coffee Souffle was written in coffee grinds. There are two forks on the plate to represent a couple in a relationship. The South African ingredients are peeping under the plate, to show you which ingredients are required for his dessert and it makes it have more of a South African feel. I wrote the ingredients in brown, to tie in with the coffee, this also makes them stand out more. The red circle is the chef's tip, which explains why coffee is used. 

Final DPS2


Vanilla cupcakes was written in sprinkles. There is a cupcake holder to show what the cupcakes stand on. Each DPS has a different plate for a different theme. I wrote the ingredients in pink to tie in with the cupcakes icing. The chef's tip was written in yellow = friendship.

Final DPS3


Chocolate Mousse Cake was written in cocoa powder. The plate was circular to tie in with the circular cake. The ingredient s were written in brown, to tie in with the chocolate cake. The chef's tip was the colour of blue, for sadness, as it is a forgiveness cake.

Final DPS4


Frangelico Shots was written in Chocolate sauce, this is used to make a Frangelico. The plate was a bar tray, as people will be out in the clubs after drinking this dessert. The writing was written in orange, to tie in with the garnish on the Frangelico shot. The chef's tip was written in orange = energy for the late, insane party ahead.

Final DPS5


Bloody Mary was written in tomatoe sauce, the main ingredient for a Bloody Mary is Allgold tomatoe juice. This cures any hangover. The plate is a toilet seat as that's where one would drink this dessert when feeling terrible and hung over. The writing was written in red to tie in with the Bloody Mary and the Chef's tip was the colour grey, has it is a morrbid colour.

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