Marbled, swirled, and layered

When you marble, layer, and swirl doughs, batters, toppings, or frostings, good looks and good taste come together in one total package.

Irvin Lin, creator of the popular blog Eat the Love, shows how these techniques open the door to inventive flavour combinations that look as fantastic as they taste.

Bakers of all levels will enjoy recipes ranging from easy brownies and bars to brunch worthy muffins and morning buns to show stopping cakes and tarts: cinnamon spiral icebox cookies, pistachio swirl brownies, triple chocolate pie, multicoloured "Neapolitan" layer cake, and more.

Lin offers variations to suit any taste (more than 150 recipes total) plus baking and decorating tips throughout on topics like making your own all natural food colouring, rolling up jelly roll-style cakes, and discovering the magic of browned butter.

Readers (and eaters) are sure to ooh and ahh over every dazzling dessert at first glance - and then again at first bite.