BAKE! Essential Techniques for Perfect Baking - Hardcover

'Award-winning baker and cookery teacher Nick Malgieri shares his tips and techniques for baking perfect pizzas, breads and spectacular puds.'--Daily Mail Weekend Magazine

'Nick's chatty, teacherly style is the perfect guide through some frankly daunting techniques (piped meringue layers, leavened pastries, puff pastry) and makes this a great buy for the serious home cook.'--Great British Food

'Author and master baker Nick Malgieri outlines 20 essential techniques, accompanied by concise step-by-step photography, making this book the only resource you'll need to become a highly accomplished baker. Whether savoury or sweet, there's a recipe to suit everyone's taste.'-- Junior

'Whether it's cakes, pies, breads or biscuits you fancy, you're sure to find a recipe to suit.'--Food & Travel

'Essential techniques shown in step-by-step format along with 125 recipes. A well structured book which demystifies many of the tricks needed to bake successfully. Over 30 years of tutoring have gone into producing this book; information is also supplied so you can go onto Nick's website to see techniques in video format.' --Cake Craft

Bake! is the ultimate collection from acclaimed pastry chef, teacher and cookery writer Nick Malgieri. It is an indispensable collection of the 20 essential techniques of successful baking and contains 125 recipes. Each chapter starts with an Essential Technique or Master Recipe, which is accompanied by practical step-by-step photography. Nick then shows you how you can use this Master Recipe to make endless variations. So not only do you learn how to make a Pear and Walnut Tart, but also how to adapt it with pecans, almonds, blueberries or nectarines. From simple shortcrust to perfect puff pastry and delicious breads, cakes and biscuits, Nick demystifies baking and shows you the easiest way to produce mouthwatering results every time. Gorgeously illustrated throughout and including a short introduction on ingredients and equipment, Bake! is all you need to become an accomplished, confident baker.