Mary Berry's Foolproof Cakes

by Mary Berry

Mary Berry has a long-established reputation for providing the home cook with easy-to-follow, reliable recipes but, if there's one area where she is the undisputed queen of the kitchen, it's cake-making.





In Foolproof Cakes, soon to be available in paperback as Simple Cakes, Mary guides you step-by-step through the art of making all kinds of cakes, biscuits and pastries.





All 40 of Marys recipes which range from a classic Tarte Tatin to a sumptuous Sacher Torte, Lemon Drizzle Traybake and Devonshire Scones use readily available ingredients.





The recipes are accompanied by colour photographs at every stage to make this notoriously tricky area of cooking even easier.





With clear, easy-to-follow methods, Mary Berrys fail-safe instructions guarantee even the novice cook excellent results every time.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food, Nonfiction, Food and Drink, Reference

128 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2006

About the author

There are multiple authors in the Goodreads database with this name.

Mary Berry is an English food writer and television presenter. After being encouraged in domestic science classes at school, she went to college to study catering. She then moved to France at the age of 21 to study at Le Cordon Bleu school, before working in a number of cooking-related jobs.

She has published more than seventy cookery books (her first being The Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook in 1970) and hosted several television series for the BBC and Thames Television. Berry is an occasional contributor to Woman's Hour and Saturday Kitchen. She has been a judge on the BBC One (originally BBC Two) television programme The Great British Bake Off since its launch in 2010.

Reviews

[Libby Shaw · Rating 5 out of 5]

Faultless, a fantastic beginner's guide to cake baking. Very simple instructions, readily understandable. Lemon drizzle to die for!!

[Stella Barnes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent as usual.

I have been using Mary Berry cake recipes for the last 40 years & I have honestly NEVER had a failure. Her recipes are foolproof; she makes everything easy - even if you are a complete novice- you cannot fail if you follow her recipes to the letter. I bought the Kindle version for 99p as it is so easily portable.
Thanks Mary.

[Jane Bird · Rating 5 out of 5]

simple instructions for many great favourite cakes.

Good recipe s for family favourites ideal for both old and new cooks.simple to follow instructions give with photographs at the end of the recipe.

[Sara · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not a cookbook that really caught my eye.

[Bernie Rowe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great foolproof recipes you really can’t go wrong with. Great tips on using correct cake tins snd lining them .

[Diana Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

My go to book about cakes it has almost everything that you'd want to bake. Easy instructions and perfect results.

[Anne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this book with beautiful colour photographs and easy recipes and taking book back to New Zealand

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mary Berry is a classic and so are these simple recipes - easily managed by the home cook and even beginner bakers. come back to when you need to whip up a cake

[Scout · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mary Berry makes the art of baking easy and enjoyable. This book has step by step recipes with colour pictures for each step. Good for both beginners and advanced bakers.

[Ietrio · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not very useful, but the recipes are like the cover says: simple. So at least there is a theme.

[Claire · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just what the book states foolproof recipes, the recipes are easy and I always get a great result!

[Becky]

It was a splendid book and I enjoyed it very much😀

The book was amazing.I really love Mary berry,this because she is so sweet but she can be very tough and I love that about her.🌺