Hi! it is...it's almost 8:00.
It's the first day of our shoot for my second cookbook.
I am not freaking out just, yet.
We're really in good shape, so I'm more excited than anything.
Alright Ami, first day of the shoot.
Carla it's cookbook 2.
How are you feeling?
Excited.
So the book is Bigger Bolder Baking every day.
So I want this to feel like it's in my home.
It is things that I make.
Scones on a Monday morning, I make a fancy dessert on a Friday night,
we have brunch on the weekends.
I wanted to put a lot more lifestyle into it than I did the first book.
So we're using the same people as last time.
We have Carla, the photographer, we've got Kate, our stylist.
Ami is helping me with culinary.
We're using the same people because the first book, in my opinion, was gorgeous.
I loved the style of it,
and I thought
if we were to do another one, they'd make it even better than the first.
So of course I'm going to ask the same team back.
So we're on day two of the photography shoot.
We shot short cakes, we've done bread and butter pudding, traditional
bread and butter pudding.
We did blueberry pie first thing,
and we did my gooey jam tart, which is one of my favorite recipes.
So over here in my house, we've been doing all the staging for the photography
because we've got really good light here.
So we're
doing the majority of stuff over here and then we're going inside
and outside, just doing some outside shots.
So what we're doing right now is staging Smashed Pavlova,
which is for chapter three, which is for family favorites.
This is something that I had a lot
growing up, so I really wanted to put it in this book.
So photography is set up in here.
Let's go next door, I'm going to show you behind the scenes
where all the recipes are getting made.
So these are all our props.
We need so many becasuse there's 120 recipes in this book.
You only need, I'd say a quarter of them, but they're all essential
because you never know what might work for which recipes.
So you have to have like a variety of stuff.
It's all Kate Martindale's who is my stylist.
She does amazing work and has the most beautiful,
like look at that, like has the most beautiful props.
So I'm very excited.
She's making the book look amazing.
Okay let's head over into the kitchen because this is where the magic is
happening.
Ami, my culinary superhero is here
and she is prepping all the recipes to take over to next door to photograph.
So we have a lot of things going on.
There's some tarts in the oven and we've already shot like ten recipes today.
We're shooting on average around 16 recipes each day.
So it's cranking out a lot of stuff out of this kitchen
but Ami is well able for it.
This is my pantry pretty much here.
We've gone through bags of flour, loads of sugar, all my chocolate,
and we have cookies and milk, wafers for banana pudding.
We've got like cinnamon, we've got like all sorts of stuff.
We just we need so much.
There's so much work that goes into a book and I hope that that will come through
like on the pages through the recipes, you'll be able to see that.
Let's go outside because I want to show you another space that we're shooting in.
This is the backyard
and we're shooting on this table.
The light here is amazing.
As you can see, it's kind of coming through the tree there.
So for the photography, the style is we do want to get
like more of me in there because like I do make these recipes all the time.
I'm more hands on in the photography of this book than I was in the first book.
And I just think that, like, human element in the book just makes it feel
like I make these recipes and you can make these recipes.
We have another four more days
and the last day of the shoot is lifestyle when we're going to get the book cover.
We're going to be outside here. We're going to set up a whole big scene.
George is going to be involved.
Kevin's going to be involved. Waffles is going to be here.
Gem what day is it?
It is day 16 - no it's not it's day four.
We're doing the brunch chapter, so as you can see, a lot of pancakes happening.
Popovers.
I'm going to do waffles soon.
You know, the book is only supposed to be 115
recipes and it's ended up being around 120 because every one of them made the cut.
I wanted all of them in there.
I had such a clear vision for this book.
And when we decided to call it Bigger, Bolder Baking, every day I could see
like my Monday to Sunday, like what every day looks like a differently
for everybody and what recipes fall into those categories.
So it was actually really easy to pull together,
and I had more than enough recipes to fit into the book.
So right now we are getting some lifestyle shots for the book.
It is at 6:00 here.
We waited for the light to get a little bit darker.
I got jazzed up and we're doing a few little scene
moments with desserts just for our dinner party chapter.
Bigger Bolder Baking after dark.
Kevin!
So this is setting up for book...cover shoot?
Cover. What's the what's the cover going to be?
What's your idea?
Well, it's kind of funny because we have like ideas,
but then at the last minute, it always can change.
So we want to do two things.
We're going to shoot in the kitchen here, and kind of do an action shot
and then we're going to shoot over against a table
with some prepared desserts around.
What's
different about number two, has your approach changed in anyway?
It's like elevated It is elevated.
It's not as casual.
The first one, we did a little bit more of a casual vibe.
There's different moods and vibes in this book from chapter to chapter.
Dinner Party chapter and the bread chapter are kind of my favorites, but
I also love the brunch shot with Kevin George.
Yeah. Gemma's my favorite baker ever.
Sorry, everybody.
So I would say my favorite was Day One.
It was the chocolate cheesecake.
I ate probably about a quarter of that.
Definitely the almond Danish.
Oh, and the monkey bread.
that was good. Almond tart.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I couldn't stop eating it.
Frozen raspberry and rosé.
Oh, that's so good.
And the yogurt with the macerated cherries was delicious.
I love the jam tart.
I do I love it.
Cheers! Cheers!
Thank you very much, everybody.
I am so proud of this book.
So a huge, huge thank you to my very creative team that worked on it.
If you haven't already, make sure to preorder my cookbook.
There's the link and description box below.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it.