Perfect Ten

ten essential recipes for a lifetime of brilliant baking

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Ten iconic recipes, tested to perfection, designed for you to memorise, master, and eventually make your own. These are the foundations for a lifetime of brilliant baking.

Bestselling and award-winning author Nicola Lamb is bringing you the only recipe you’ll ever need to make the perfect:

Choc Chip Cookie
Shortbread
Flaky Pastry
Buttery Cake
Fluffy Sponge
Chocolate Mousse
Caramel
Meringue
Custard
Bread Dough

Each perfect base recipe comes with its own family tree of variations designed to show just how reliable and adaptable they are. For example, take your base Chocolate Mousse recipe and add gelatin to get the Marbled Mousse Cake. Freeze it, and you end up with Salty, Toasty Ice-Cream Sandwiches. Add flour and cocoa, increase the butter and the result is Really Good Brownies.

An instant classic, Perfect Ten will become the go-to-guide for new and established bakers alike.

About Nicola Lamb

Nicola Lamb is a recipe developer, consultant and pastry chef based in London. She trained in some of London and New York's top bakeries, including Dominique Ansel, Ottolenghi, Happy Endings, and Little Bread Pedlar. She is the author of ‘Kitchen Projects’, a top food and drink newsletter on Substack, praised as an ‘incredible resource’ by the Observer. This weekly newsletter delves deep into the world of pastry, exploring everything from beignets and focaccia, to sorbet and cheesecake – and has over 42,000 dedicated readers.

Nicola's recipes and writing have been featured in Serious Eats, the Guardian, Olive Magazine, Vogue, and ES Magazine. She continues to host sell-out pastry parties with her pop-up bakery, lark! and has collaborated with notable names like Verena Lochmuller of Ottolenghi Test Kitchen, Toklas Bakery, Soft & Swirly, and Kossoffs, among others.

You can follow Nicola on Instagram @nicolaalamb

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