Fast Cakes: Easy Bakes in Minutes

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Measure all the ingredients for the cake into a large mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer until well blended and smooth. Fast Cakes is an unmissable, definitive new baking book from Mary Berry. Proper cakes that take 10 minutes or less to make and under an hour to bake. Put all the remaining ingredients in a large bowl and pour over the cooled sauce. Mix well until evenly coated. Not forgetting recipes you can make with your kids from Happy Face Biscuits to Traffic Lights and Jammy Buns. To make the filling and topping, measure the butter, honey, almond extract and icing sugar into a bowl and mix well until thoroughly blended.

I've read through this book about 4 times since I got it on Friday - so 3 days ago. I took to it bed with me the first night, which resulted in some very strange dreams. :/ But I woke up and baked, so all good.Heat the oven to 325F, 160C, gas mark 3 and grease and line with greased greaseproof paper a 7-inch (17.5cm) cake tin. In addition to the easy tray bakes and family cakes there are some recipes to interest the seasoned baker such as battenberg cake, or my favorite brandy snaps that need to be rolled around a wooden spoon while still warm to achieve their tube-like form, ready for filling with cream! There are a lot of different flavors to choose from also. Mary Berry's Fast Cakes: Easy bakes in minutes is a fantastic recipe book that has all the cakes and bakes you could need in one book! With around 200 recipes it is full of tasty treats and there's sure to be one everyone likes. Melt the butter in a pan over a gentle heat. Take off the heat and add the biscuits. Mix together very well. Tip into the tin and press flat over the base using a spoon. The recipes are all well laid out, short instructions, no nonsense and easy to follow. She doesn't use complicated baking terms, so beginners and kids can have a go with ease.

I haven't actually managed to bake any cakes from this book so far but i have read it from cover to cover. I like how brief and un-fussy all the instructions are and how commonplace the ingredients are, meaning the recipes won't all have you rushing out to the shops to get ingredients you've never even heard of before like a lot of recipe books do. 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. Utterly delicious. A can of apricots is added to this cake and gives it its distinctive flavour. Use the juice from the can in a fruit salad or soak sponge cakes in it for a trifle.To make the icing, measure the icing sugar and lemon and lime juice into a bowl. Whisk until smooth, then spread the icing over the cake. If you miss Mary's wisdom and inspiration in The Great British Bake Off, or want a brand-new companion to Mary Berry's Baking Bible, this is the cookbook for you, with over 150 easy recipes to make with confidence. Measure all the ingredients except the cocoa and icing sugar into a large bowl and beat well with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Put half the mixture in another bowl and add the cocoa powder. Mix well. To start with the book is beautiful. It is so pretty, and heavy and everything that a cookbook should be. Bake for about 30 minutes, until well-risen and just set around the edges. Take out of the oven and rest for 10 minutes to allow the top of the cheesecake to become level and flat.