by David Whitehouse
The first surprise you get when looking through this book is that quite a few of the recipes are not, in fact, for particularly small cakes!
There’s a very proud looking Dundee cake (one of several recipes made in 16cm diameter tins), and even a 26cm chocolate cheesecake, for example. But this is only a slight [...]
by David Whitehouse
The best cookbooks aren’t necessarily massive tomes devoted to every fiddly detail. Some books get straight to the point and when space is at a minimum they don’t muck about. Here are a five little baking books that make short work of it.
Just Like Mother Used to Bake
A real pocket-sized volume, this book nonetheless packs [...]
by Dan Lepard
Marble cake recipes involve what appear at first to be a simple technique swirling two mixtures together in the tin. But getting those curves perfectly placed involves a little delicate intervention in the kitchen (if you want to try the technique, there’s a recipe here).
Surely a marble cake is a strike against good taste?
The term [...]