Mali Bakes

Make and decorate the retro cakes of your dreams

Patti Chimkire

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Hardback

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English

SMITH STREET BOOKS
28 October 2025

Cookery, food & drink; Cakes, baking, icing & sugarcraft

Embark on a journey through cake making, the Mali Bakes way. This beautiful book is your ultimate guide to baking and decorating the cakes of your dreams! Start your adventures with simpler cakes like Apple and yuzu upside down cake or Thai tea chiffon cake, before progressing to layer cakes in uniquely delicious flavour combinations - think Buttermilk vanilla cake with brown butter custard, or Pistachio cake with cardamom roasted rhubarb.

Along the way, you will be introduced to different cake-making methods and decorating finishes to learn how to make and pipe perfect decorations with buttercream. Adventurous bakers can test their skills with 15 decorating projects to transform layer cakes into a showstopping masterpieces, perfect for all of life's celebrations.

Mali Bakes is a delightful celebration of colour and baking and proves that cakes can be fun and full of flavour.

By: Patti Chimkire
Imprint: SMITH STREET BOOKS
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 275mm, Width: 210mm,
ISBN: 9781923239203
ISBN 10: 1923239201
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 28 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Patti Chimkire is a pastry chef who runs Mali Bakes, the much-loved bakeshop and cake studio in Melbourne that brings together her twin loves: color and baking. Inspired by the vintage cake decorating books from the 1970s and started as a lockdown side hustle, Patti's cakes are a modern interpretation of classic vintage-inspired decorating aesthetics with bold flavors and contemporary colors