With 250 foolproof recipes, Mary Berry's Baking Bible has all the favourites, from Frosted Walnut Cake and Hot Chocolate Soufflés to The Very Best Shortbread, plus exciting new recipes - treat your friends and family to indulgent Brownie Loaves with White Choc Chip, moreish Paprika and Cheese Biscuits, a fabulous Rainbow Unicorn Cake, and much more.

Filled with 250 foolproof recipes, from the classic Victoria Sponge, Very Best Chocolate Cake and Hazelnut Meringue Cake to tempting muffins, scones and bread and butter pudding, this is the most comprehensive baking cookbook you’ll ever need. Number One on my list is the Victoria Sponge - quickly whipped up, the layers sandwiched together with strawberry (or raspberry) jam and either whipped cream or a buttercream frosting and the top simply dusted with powdered sugar.With beautiful photography and easy-to-follow instructions, this timeless classic is a must have for every baker, big and small. The sponges were springy and light and the buttercream was just right, I thought there wouldn’t be enough but as it’s very sweet, you really wouldn’t want much more.

I use quite a lot of recipes by Mary Berry, as always find her recipes are simple to make and the majority of ingredients are inexpensive to purchase. This brand-new collection from her landmark new BBC One series brings together everything we love about Mary – wonderfully simple but utterly dependable recipes that are essential for every home. I'm not sure I should have done that because I learned that there isn't a great deal of consensus out there on how to create a successful Pavlova. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. From perfecting the basics of a classic Victorian sponge cake to testing your baking skills with one of the more elaborate creations in the Special Cakes chapter, this cookbook is here to guide you through a wide range of different bakes and exemplifies what we have all come to love about Mary; reliable and easy-to-follow recipes that deliver perfect results every time.After being encouraged in domestic science classes at school, she went to college to study catering. That's where I first found Mary Berry, though she has been an icon of British home cooking since the early 60's. This texture-packed loaf can be found in the chapter on bread, and is a lovely recipe to pull out as an accompaniment for dinner party cheese boards or for topping with cream cheese and smoked salmon at a weekend brunch.

Cut each cherry in half then rinse in very hot water to remove the extra sugar syrup, then let them dry on paper towels before you add them to your cake.

More than one recipe I found intriguing but I really wanted to see it to know if it truly was of interest. Good thing that there is a baking bible like this Marry Berry that we can use for the party we are wanting to do. This definitive collection from the undisputed queen of cakes brings together all of Mary Berry’s most mouth-watering baking recipes in a beautifully packaged edition. Paula Deen's 4 layer coconut confection with lemon curd between the layers and real buttercream frosting a half-inch thick that takes all day and every dish in the kitchen to make would never appear on a British table. In this completely modernised reissue, the 250 bakes include 20 brand-new recipes alongside all of the much-loved originals, which have been newly tested and photographed.