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Breakfast cake

This recipe is a true Food Bandits classic. Make this recipe once and you won’t be able to stop. It’s so easy, so delicious and is forgiving when you make a mistake. On top of that, this cake is my cat Lola’s favourite. When we were invited by our publisher to talk about our (at that time potential) book Andere Koek, Lola had already started munching on this cake, meaning we were forced to show up empty handed. Thankfully, Claire trusted Lola’s judgement completely and we got the publishing deal regardless.

Vegan strawberry coconut cake

A summery cake from our cook book Andere Koek. This cake is vegan, gluten free and smells wonderful. Especially the recipe for the crust is something to remember - you can also use it with all kinds of different fillings!

Vegan and gf waffles

These gluten free and vegan waffles are a great idea for Easter. Make them savoury or sweet and enjoy a great start of your extra long weekend off.

Vegan strawberry custard tart

When I saw this vegan strawberry custard tart in the Vegan for good cookbook by Rita Serano, I knew I wanted it try it out. I immediately longed for summer when I saw those strawberries and the tart turned out to be lucious and tasty.

FAQ about Andere Koek

We are incredibly proud of our second cook book Andere Koek, and it’s honestly so cool to see all of your creations online. We also got a couple of questions about the book from you through Instagram and email.

Below we will try to answer the most frequently asked questions. If you haven’t bought our book yet, then we hope that this little FAQ will give you the final push into the right direction. That is, to the bookstore.

Andere koek

Wij liepen al anderhalf jaar rond met het idee voor het boek. We wilden een boek maken waarbij je niet meer 8 verschillende taarten, desserts en cake hoefde te maken zodat iedereen wat lekkers heeft tijdens de feestdagen of een verjaardags partijtje. Wij wilden dat als je vegan eet of glutenvrij je niet continu hoeft na te denken of je het wel mag eten of hoe je het recept kan aanpassen. Nee, je slaat dit boek open en je maakt het omdat het je lekker lijkt.

How to make a book part 5

What cook book nowadays doesn’t have its photography done by Simone and her team? And her team deserves a quick shout out, because Alex and Esmee are also simply amazing. But honestly, Simone has worked on a lot of Dutch cook books, and they were also the first ones to start giving workshops in food photography and styling. Keep in mind that they also have a great blog and their own cook book on top of that, so you can probably understand why I follow Simone’s work with so much pleasure and asked her for a couple of tips.

How to make a book part 4

Throughout the book-creating process you will be sending pictures and written pieces to the editor, who will see whether you’re still on the right track. This means they won’t only be looking at the recipes themselves, but also at the explanations of certain special ingredients, how the recipes work, how import it is to be aware that every oven works differently in each recipe (and how the seasons have an effect on this as well), and your word of thanks.

How to make a book part 3

Yes indeed. You are now looking at a 5-layer chocolate peanut butter cake, and it isn’t for the faint-hearted. But how do you develop a recipe for a cake like this in the first place? I will list all of our tips for you below. And if you have any further questions, just let us know.

Coming up with new recipes is truly something else. For food-themed magazines or whenever a celebrity wants to make a cook book, recipe developers are often employed. It’s important that a recipe isn’t just delicious, but also clearly written.

How to make a book, LifeSuus SleeOctober 13, 2018boek, maken, cookbook, publiishing, publisher, editorail, editorial, kookboek, uitgeverij, uitgever, schrijverComment

How to make a book part 1

Welcome to our new blog series: “How to make a book”. The cook book market has been a successful one here in The Netherlands for a while now. I think everyone has at least one book by Jamie Oliver or Yotam Ottolenghi on their bookshelf at home. And for all the Dutchies, a good book by Yvette van Boven has almost become obligatory to own. But how exactly do you write such a book?

How to make a book, LifeSuus SleeOctober 8, 2018how to make a book, boek maken, kookboek, uitgeverij, insta read, synopsis, publisher, meeting, creativeComment

A new book....

Niets is zo lekker als eigen gebakken taart uit de oven, geen betere start van de dag dan met een grote stapel pannenkoeken. Er is zoveel mogelijk met een beslagkom, pollepel en oven.
Dit schreven we aan Kosmos uitgevers. Wij weten dat met een liefde voor taarten en cakes ons bedrijf is ontstaan. En we weten ook dat het de creatieve uitdaging van het vegan en glutenvrij bakken is die ons elke dag weer drijft. We delen niet altijd de recepten of gooien alles op social media want al hadden we geen Food Bandits, je vindt ons altijd in de keuken.

Mijn Syrische keuken

Net zoals een paar jaar geleden met ons eigen kookboek "Good Morning'", belde Alexandra, redactrice Xander Uitgevers en hadden we binnen 20 minuten een kookboek. Ze vertelde over een bijzonder vrouw, genaamd Zina die de eerste Syrische vluchteling is die een kvk onderneming was begonnen waarmee ze fantastisch kookt voor verschillende mensen in Paradiso tot leden van koninklijk huis. Ze heeft de hel in Syrië meegemaakt en daarna de barre tocht, gescheiden van haar kinderen gemaakt door verschillende Europese landen om hier in Nederland haar tweede thuis te vinden. Ze houdt van Amsterdam maar Aleppo is voor altijd in haar hart zoals ze het zo mooi omschrijft.