Bake

Book excerpt: Bake is the ultimate guide on how to get the best results from your oven. All those much-loved cakes, muffins, biscuits, slices and scones you remember from your childhood are here. Clear instructions and meticulous measurements are what you need when you're baking. Follow these Triple Tested recipes to the letter and you'll be lauded by your friends and family as a master baker. Chapters include all kinds of cakes - chocolate, butter, sponge, syrup, fruit and cupcakes - biscuits, slices, scones, muffins, pies, tarts, pastries and savoury pies and quiches. As well as fabulous Triple Tested recipes and beautiful photographs, there are special features, each containing 12 photographs, which give you additional information about the deeply satisfying art of baking.