The Books
Although I’m trying to be an adventurous baker, I’m most certainly not a creative one. All the recipes I use are from my cookbook collection which, since starting Let’s Bake the Books, has grown considerably. Here are the books I use regularly:
Mary Berry, Mary Berry’s Baking Bible, 2009, BBC Books
Delia Smith, Delia’s Cakes, 2013, Hodder & Stoughton
Tarek Malouf and The Hummingbird Bakery, Home Sweet Home, 2013, Harper Collins
Tarek Malouf and The Hummingbird Bakers, The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook, 2009, Ryland, Peters & Small
Linda Collister, The Great British Bake Off Big Book of Baking, 2014, BBC Books
James Martin, Sweet, 2015, Quadrille Publishing Limited
Edd Kimber, Patisserie Made Simple, 2014, Kyle Books
Debbie Brown, 50 Easy Party Cakes, 2007, Murdoch Books Australia
Paul Hollywood, Paul Hollywood’s British Baking, 2014, Bloomsbury
Éric Kayser, The Larousse Book of Bread, 2015, Phaidon
Yotam Ottolenghi, Helen Goh, Sweet, 2017, Ebury Press