Over 100 Foolproof Bakes

Great British Bake Off: Everyday

Simple, reliable bakes for every day - these are the recipes you will return to over and over again.

Linda Collister knows how to bake - she trained at L'Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne in Paris and Le Cordon Bleu in London, and is the author of The Great British Bake Off: How to Bake (the perfect book for beginner bakers), How to Turn Everyday Bakes into Showstoppers (simple, clever baking to impress) and Learn to Bake (easy baking for kids).

This book is for the baker who wants to whip up a cake for an office party, traybake for a kid’s birthday or pudding to follow a simple supper. Using straightforward, easy-to-follow techniques, there are foolproof recipes for cakes, traybakes, bread, biscuits, tarts, pies, puddings and desserts. 
 
If you are a confident baker or ready to move onto the next stage, each chapter also showcases the best recipes from the series – Mary and Paul's Signature Bakes, Technical Challenges and Showstoppers, plus the best bakers' recipes from series 4. 
 
There are step-by-step photographs to guide you through the more complicated techniques and beautiful photography throughout, making this the perfect gift for all bakers. 
 
The finalists' recipes will be available after the final has transmitted in October. For more information go to: www.bakeoffbook.co.uk.

Discover over 120 delicious recipes in the official tie-in to Series 1 of The Great British Bake Off

The Great British Book of Baking

Inspired by The Great British Bake Off? Learn how to bake over 120 delicious recipes in this ultimate baking book and official tie-in to the first BBC series. 
 
Take a tour of the very best in baking our nation has to offer - from Eccles cakes to Cornish pasties, Chelsea buns to Scottish gingerbread. 
 
Over 120 classic recipes, as well as numerous adaptations and suggestions, cover the whole range of baking skills from sweet jam tarts to savoury game pie. These are recipes that have been passed through the generations, as well as those from the Bake Off contestants. 
 
With trips to notable landmarks from baking history - Melton Mowbray and Sandwich among the more famous, as well as locally loved secrets from towns and villages around the country - the book highlights the importance of baking as part of our national heritage. 
 
 Whether you want to try your hand at the delicate art of shortbread petticoat tails or dish up a hearty steak pie to a hungry family, you will be dipping into the pages of The Great British Book of Baking time and time again, for the very best baking recipes from around the British Isles. 
 
Chapters include: 
- Biscuits and Teatime Treats 
- Bread 
- Tarts and Flans 
- Pies 
- Cakes 
- Puddings 
- Fancy Pastries 
- PLUS invaluable tips from the judges and an introduction from Mel and Sue! 
 
Get your wooden spoons at the ready!

We are a nation of bakers. Baking is steeped in our history, class system and geography. What is more Scottish than shortbread? More Cornish than a pasty? More Welsh than Bara Brith? More traditional than a pie? 
The Great British Book of Baking looks into our long and enviable baking heritage and brings together over 120 of the very best recipes from around the British Isles. 
 
Whether your weakness is a 4 o'clock biscuit dunked in your tea, a slab of rich chocolate cake or warm bread fresh from the oven, you'll find a recipe to satisfy your every craving in this book. 
 
Learn how to make a traditional raised pork pie, perfect your flaky pastry skills for the ultimate Eccles cake and discover how the baking fashions and trends of Great Britain developed throughout the centuries as people moved around the globe. 
 
With recipes for sweet and savoury tarts and flans, homely puddings and hearty pies, delicate slices, teatime treats and breads and cakes for every occasion, this truly is the book of great British baking.

Linda Collister trained at the Cordon Bleu, then La Varenne in Paris. She has written over twenty-five books, nearly all on the subject of baking. Sheila Keating is a food writer who has worked on a wide range of books. She has a special interest in the provenance of British food and has written the narrative introductions for The Great British Book of Baking.

The official book to accompany the hit BBC2 TV series The Great British Bake-off, presented by Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc. 
 
The Great British Book of Baking takes us on a tour of the very best in baking our nation has to offer - from Eccles cakes to Cornish pasties, Chelsea buns to Scottish gingerbread. 
 
With trips to notable landmarks from baking history - Melton Mowbray and Sandwich among the more famous, as well as locally loved secrets from towns and villages around the country - the book highlights the importance of baking as part of our national heritage. Narrative features explore the regions and showcase the real people behind this hugely popular culinary trend. Recipes that have been passed through the generations, securing themselves as baking classics, make up the chapters of this timely and beautiful book. 
 
Throughout the the TV series, ten contestants from across the nation battle it out to be crowned Britain's Best Baker. They face a series of challenges to test their baking skills to the max, and these recipes are included in the book. 
 
Over 120 recipes, as well as numerous adaptations and suggestions, cover the whole range of baking skills from sweet jam tarts to savoury game pie, with flans, rolls, breads and all manner of luxurious cakes in between. Learn how to make perfect puff pastry, the secrets to traditional hand-raised pies and discover the original recipe for West Country lardy cakes. 
 
Whether you want to try your hand at the delicate art of petticoat tails shortbread or dish up a hearty steak pie to a hungry family, you will be looking between the pages of The Great British Book of Baking time and time again as it serves up the very best recipes from around the British Isles.

Linda Collister

Bake your way through the much-loved BBC1 series with this beautiful, fully photographic cookbook of 120 original recipes, including those from both the judges and the bakers. 
 
This book is for every baker – whether you want to whip up a quick batch of easy biscuits at the very last minute or you want to spend your time making a breathtaking showstopper, there are recipes and decoration options for creating both. Using straightforward, easy-to-follow techniques there are reliable recipes for biscuits, traybakes, bread, large and small cakes, sweet pastry and patisserie, savoury pastry, puddings and desserts. 
 
Each chapter transports you on set and showcases the best recipes from the challenges including Mary and Paul's Signature Bakes, Technical Challenges and Showstoppers, plus the best bakers' recipes from the show. 
 
There are step-by-step photographs to help guide you through the more complicated techniques and stunning photography throughout, making this the perfect gift for all bakers and Bake Off fans.

Linda Collister

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