Perfect Ten

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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 bakes.

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

Chocolate Chip Cookie
All-purpose Pastry
Shortbread
All-purpose Dough
Fluffy Cake
Buttery Cake
Chocolate Mousse
Custard
Meringue
Caramel

Each perfect base recipe comes with ten further variations, designed to show just how reliable and adaptable they are, and empower you to experiment, adapt and ultimately build creative confidence.

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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