Celebrate: Joyful Baking All Year Round

by Paul Hollywood

Paul Hollywood, the best baker in the business, is back with Celebrate: showstopping bakes to mark the special moments in your life. Having been a judge on Bake Off for over a decade and a professional baker for even longer, Paul knows the joy of baking and how it can be one of celebratory fun.

With chapters on Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter as well as Party Food and Cakes, you will have something up your sleeve for every occasion, from Easter and Christmas, to summer picnics, Valentine's Day and much more. Including recipes for easy traybakes, layer cakes, quiches, tarts, breads, pastries, desserts and cookies, expect family favourites like Mini Chocolate Logs and twists on classics like Strawberry Heart Scones, as well as Paul's delectable Bake Off Cake and scrumptious handheld beef pies.

Filled with his fool-proof recipes and kaleidoscopic photography, Celebrate makes the occasions that mean the most to us all the more memorable.

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Cooking, Food

272 pages, Hardcover

Published September 30, 2025

About the author

Paul Hollywood is an English baker and celebrity chef. He has worked as a baker since taking up the career at his father's bakery as a teenager and has gone on to become head baker at a number of hotels around Britain. After returning from working in Cyprus, he began appearing in guest spots on a number of British television shows on both BBC and ITV channels. Since 2010 he has appeared as a judge on BBC2's baking show The Great British Bake Off. He runs his own artisanal baking business, which supplies stores such as Harrods.

Reviews

[Lydia Wallace · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book full of lots of great recipes and pictures. Easy to impress your guest and family with great recipes like these. The desserts look so beautiful and make you look like a professional baker. I got hungry just looking at these recipes. A recipe for every occasion. Highly recommend.

[Steph · Rating 3 out of 5]

Has some great recipes. Lots of pictures but all in black and white. I wish it was printed in colour so I can tell what my food should look like.

[Denise · Rating 3 out of 5]

*I received this book as a free giveaway from this site.* I love Bakeoff and I was excited to have this book. The pictures are stunning, but the content organization is awful. Since it is organized by season instead of topic you have to either use the index or hunt around to find what you want. Baking a cake - look through all 6 chapters to find cakes (there's a "cake" section, but also cakes in all of the other chapters as well)....same with bread, savoury, cookies, ect. It's like he's saying that I wouldn't want Chelsea Buns unless it is Fall or Brownies unless it is Spring. How am I supposed to guess which season things are located? Just put like things together.

Since receiving it I have tried a few recipes. My son loves peanut butter and wanted to try the cookie recipe in the book, and afterwards he ate half of one and refused to eat the rest, saying that he didn't like them. The Taboon Bread was excellent. The Miso Sesame Cheese Twists were very good. The Spiced Loaf cake was sweeter than I preferred, and that was without the ganache on top.

In addition to easy stuff like Brownies and PB cookies he also had Jello in there - the layered rainbow jello that everyone's grandma made in the 70's. I get that you don't want every recipe to be incredibly difficult, but Jello seems like more of a page-filler than a serious recipe.

Overall I'm happy that I received the book and there are other recipes in there that I will be trying, but I'm glad that I didn't pay for it.

[Leane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hollywood truly infuses the joy of sharing and baking for friends and family in this book, certainly coming across as someone far less of a curmudgeon than his British Baking persona. Bright pastel and vibrant photography (by Haarala Hamilton) fill the end-papers, and chapter headings as well as illuminate each recipe. He organizes the book into Cakes, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Party and that is an excellent way for him to show great range and variety. The Preface is short and sweet and gives the reader his reasons to celebrate the seasons, other cultures, and each other, driving the book. Good Index, thorough recipe instructions and ingredients with short intros for each and mouth-watering photos that capture each recipe’s appeal. I can’t wait to try his Blueberry Lattice Pie and Peanut Butter Cookies. He provides an array of sweet and savory with nods to his experiences in Greece, Sicily, and other countries. For anyone who loves to bake and create treats for an occasion or just because it’s Tuesday. Readalikes are his other cookbooks, as well as Mary Berry, Dorie Greenspan, Mandy Merriman, and Christina Tosi.

[Ligaya · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked this up off the New Books library shelf mostly because I love Bake Off and have read many of the cookbooks that the judges and contestants have written. I've been pleasantly surprised by most and disappointed by only a few. This one was a complete surprise. Judging a book by its cover, I found it very boring looking and that the photo styling is very lacking in finesse. That said, after reading the entire book, I had flagged over a dozen recipes that I really wanted to bake up! More how-to photos would be appreciated (how exactly do you snip those wheat bits for the Wheatsheaf?) I haven't made anything yet, but am looking forward to spending more time with this book.

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book, great ideas. Simple ingredients that you can find in your cupboard or fridge. I do like other books where they estimate timing for each recipe. And when you turn pages looking for something quick it could be useful to spot them quicker than to read entire recipe. But that would just be a bonus.

[Louise Hartvigsen · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun picture book for adults. We enjoy the GBBS and just finished the new season. This book was on the new release display at the library, so I picked it up to look through. Beautiful pictures. Probably won't be making any of the recipes, but fun to look at.

[Meredith Keller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lots of good recipes! My favorite is the shokupan. As an American baker I do appreciate the USCS measurements but there are some discrepancies. Definitely go with the metric measurements for best turn out. This is definitely one of my favorite of Paul Hollywood’s books!

[Sara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well, I’ll be diving into the book face first. I want to make EVERYTHING!

[Jess Svajgert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this new collection from Paul—I look forward to trying a lot of the savory recipes in this one!

[Katherine · Rating 5 out of 5]

What is not to love? Great recipes and pictures of Paul baking!