20 Best Great British Baking Show Cookbooks (2022 Updated)

The brand-new official tie-in to the hit BBC1 series. 120 original and delicious bakes including Mary Berry’s and Paul Hollywood’s recipes, plus the very best from the contestants. Bake your way through the much-loved BBC1 series with this beautiful, fully photographic cookbook of 120 original recipes, including those from both the judges and the bakers.

This book is for every baker – whether you want to whip up a quick batch of easy biscuits at the very last minute or you want to spend your time making a breathtaking showstopper, there are recipes and decoration options for creating both.

Using straightforward, easy-to-follow techniques there are reliable recipes for biscuits, traybakes, bread, large and small cakes, sweet pastry and patisserie, savoury pastry, puddings and desserts. Each chapter transports you on set and showcases the best recipes from the challenges including Mary and Paul’s Signature Bakes, Technical Challenges and Showstoppers, plus the best bakers’ recipes from the show.

There are step-by-step photographs to help guide you through the more complicated techniques and stunning photography throughout, making this the perfect gift for all bakers and Bake Off fans.

Bake like you’re in the tent – from the comfort of your own home. This essential baking book of recipes from the Great British Bake Off team is appropriate for any level of expertise. Each chapter includes favourite classics with a twist, recipes with simple ingredients to create something adventurous, and showstoppers that will guarantee you’re crowned Star Baker in your own home.

– Includes:* Recipes from the Bakers of 2016, including the finalists* Technical challenges from the show* Easy to follow, step by step baking instructions* Written to help you develop skills and bring out your creativity* Beautiful photography to help you visualize your bake* Clear advice on equipment, ingredients and quantities* Recipes highlighted for ‘free-from’ diets and special ingredients.

The Great British Bake Off is a glorious celebration of Britain’s favorite pastime. As the series has shown us, baking is fun and the perfect way to mark an occasion–to celebrate, to congratulate and reward, and to lift spirits.

Covering a wide range of bakes from large and small cakes, biscuits and cookies, sweet and savory pastry, puddings, breads, and patisserie, this book shows you how to bake beautiful, enticing recipes to wow at every occasion.

There are dainty bakes for afternoon tea, quick bakes perfect for bake sales, school fairs or coffee with friends, mouthwatering desserts, breads and pastry recipes for lunches and dinner parties, and some really special bakes for birthdays and festive celebrations throughout the year – including a Diamond Jubilee.

The book also demonstrates ideas for making your bakes extra special, including exciting finishes using chocolate curls and ribbons, spun sugar and sugar craft, and ideas for icing, shaping and decorating, so you can bring simple sparkle to any bake.

Great British Bake Off Celebrations also includes the ‘Best of the Bake-off’ – the finest recipes from the new set of Great British Bake Off amateur bakers, and all of Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood’s Technical Challenges from the series.

A mouth-watering book, with beautiful design and dazzling photography, Great British Bake Off Celebrations will inspire everyone, whatever level of skill, to get baking and create something showstopping.

Winner of the 2015 Gourmand World Cookbook Award, Best Pastry CookbookFresh cherry cake, Plum bread, Baked Somerset Brie, Honey buns, Scottish oatcakes, Boxty pancakes. you don’t get better than a traditional British bake.

Join Paul Hollywood for a personal tour around the regions of Britain and discover the charming history of their finest baked delights. Paul will show you the secrets behind the recipes and how to create them in your own kitchen-and, in his inimitable style, he’ll apply a signature twist.

Rich with beautiful recipe photography, maps and illustrations, here is the ultimate collection of British bakes from the nation’s favourite artisan baker.

This book is for the baker who wants to whip up a cake for an office party, a traybake for a kid’s birthday, or a pudding to follow a simple supper. Using straightforward, easy-to-follow techniques, there are foolproof recipes for cakes, traybakes, bread, biscuits, tarts, pies, puddings, and desserts.

If you are a confident baker or ready to move onto the next stage, each chapter also showcases the best recipes from the series, including Mary and Paul’s Signature Bakes, Technical Challenges and Showstoppers, plus the best bakers’ recipes from series four.

There are step-by-step photographs to guide you through the more complicated techniques and beautiful photography throughout, making this the perfect gift for all bakers. As usual, everyone who buys the book will be able to download the digital booklet of finalist recipes after the finale has transmitted in October.

Well, this weekend, get into the kitchen and bake a cake yourself. Baking is fun when you know how to do it, and you don’t need lots of equipment or expensive ingredients. Learn to Bake explains baking terms (how do you beat, fold or cream?) and special ingredients (what is strong bread flour?).

Then it tells you everything you need to know to bake for every occasion and every person in your life. Bake the recipes in this book with your friends and family – get everyone involved, make a mess, have some fun and bake something to be proud of.

The ultimate Bake Off Christmas collection with all of Paul Hollywood’s and Mary Berry’s Christmas masterclass recipes. Also includes new bakes from all four winners, Edd Kimber, Jo Wheatley, John Whaite and Frances Quinn, plus other wonderful Bake Off contestants.

Whip up tempting Christmas nibbles like Potato Blinis with Smoked Salmon, or Parmesan Palmiers, perfect for a party. Spice up your home – and get the kids involved too – with Stained Glass Tree Biscuits and a Raspberry and Cinnamon Christmas Wreath.

For the main event, there is plenty of inspiration for tempting party nibbles or a festive feast, like Baked Christmas Ham or a Venison Pie – and ingenious ideas for how to make the most of all those leftovers.

Each chapter also includes spectacular recipes from Bake Off contestants, and Mary and Paul reveal the secrets to those classic Christmas dishes – whether it’s Paul’s perfect mince pies or Mary’s ultimate Christmas pudding.

Packed with everything from edible decorations and delicious gifts to party dishes and showstopping centrepieces, this book is the perfect Christmas companion.

From the star of Netflix’s Great British Baking Show, a delicious, easy to follow cookbook for every home chef who wants to avoid soggy pie bottoms or win star baker. Paul Hollywood was the son of a baker long before he became a household name as a judge on The Great British Baking Show.

Raised to make perfect breads, scones, and sponges, he advanced from his father’s kitchen to become head baker at hotels around the world. As he worked, Hollywood became passionate about busting the myths that surround baking, sharing his finely honed skills, and showing that with the right guidance, anybody can achieve success time after time.

Now, in How to Bake, Hollywood introduces readers to his tried and true techniques. He has filled this book with easy-to-follow, clearly explained, utterly delicious recipes for an abundance of breads, pastries, cakes and biscuits from ciabatta to focaccia and fresh croissants to a classic Victoria sponge.

As they say on Great British Baking Show: “Ready, Set, BAKE!”.

A sweet and savory collection of more than 100 foolproof recipes from the reigning “Queen of Baking” Mary Berry, who has made her way into American homes through ABC’s primetime series, The Great Holiday Baking Show, and the PBS series, The Great British Baking Show.

Baking with Mary Berry draws on Mary’s more than 60 years in the kitchen, with tips and step-by-step instructions for bakers just starting out and full-color photographs of finished dishes throughout.

The recipes follow Mary’s prescription for dishes that are no fuss, practical, and foolproof—from breakfast goods to cookies, cakes, pastries, and pies, to special occasion desserts such as cheesecake and soufflés, to British favorites that will inspire.

Whether you’re tempted by Mary’s Heavenly Chocolate Cake and Best-Ever Brownies, intrigued by her Mincemeat and Almond Tart or Magic Lemon Pudding, or inspired by her Rich Fruit Christmas Cake and Ultimate Chocolate Roulade, the straightforward yet special recipes in Baking with Mary Berry will prove, as one reviewer has said of her recipes, “if you can read, you can cook.

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Bake Along with the 10th Season of The Great British Baking Show! With straightforward recipes you can trust from Mary Berry, the beloved judge of The Great British Baking Show, Fast Cakes is a must-have for all busy bakers.

Fast Cakes is a definitive baking book from the queen of baking, Mary Berry. Mary has incorporated her all-in-one method of preparation into as many recipes as possible, so her recipes are now faster to make than ever–nearly 100 of the bakes take only ten minutes to make.

There are scones, buns, cookies, bars, and breads perfect for any school or family party and, of course, fool-proof cakes for any occasion, from Honey & Almond Cake to Mary’s First-Rate Chocolate Cake.

Fast Cakes also includes many recipes perfect to make with kids, including Happy Face Cookies, Traffic Lights, and Jammy Buns. If you miss Mary’s wisdom and inspiration from The Great British Baking Show, or simply want a brand-new companion to Mary Berry’s Baking Bible, this is the cookbook for you, with more than 150 easy recipes to make with confidence.

Trusted recipes, revised and updated for a new generation of home bakers. Comprehensive in scope, authoritative in style, and offering clear, practical, and encouraging instruction, The King Arthur Baking Company’s All-Purpose Baker’s Companion is the one book you’ll turn to every time you bake.

The experts from King Arthur lead home bakers through hundreds of easy and foolproof recipes from yeast breads and sourdoughs to cakes and cookies to quick breads and brownies. Winner of the 2004 Cookbook of the Year Award by the James Beard Foundation, this dependable cookbook has been reinvigorated with new photography, recipes, and revisions to keep it relevant to today’s modern baker.

Decades of research in their famous test kitchen shaped the contents of this book which includes more than 350 recipes, a completely up-to-date overview of ingredients (including gluten-free options), substitutions and variations, and troubleshooting advice.

Sidebars share baking secrets and provide clear step-by-step instructions. Techniques are further explained with easy-to-follow illustrations. Now fully revised and updated,The King Arthur Baking Company’s All-Purpose Baker’s Companion is an essential kitchen tool.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The host of the beloved Netflix series Time to Eat and Nadiya Bakes and winner of The Great British Baking Show returns to her true love, baking, with more than 100 delicious, Americanized recipes for sweet treats.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME OUT AND THE KITCHNWhen Nadiya Hussain, the UK’s “national treasure,” began cooking, she headed straight to the oven—which, in her home, wasn’t used for baking, but rather for storing frying pans! One day, her new husband asked her to bake him a cake and then.

she was hooked! Baking soon became a part of her daily life. In her newest cookbook, based on her Netflix show and BBC series Nadiya Bakes, Nadiya shares more than 100 simple and achievable recipes for cakes, cookies, breads, tarts, and puddings that will become staples in your home.

From Raspberry Amaretti Biscuits and Key Lime Cupcakes to Cheat’s Sourdough and Spiced Squash Strudel, Nadiya has created an ultimate baking resource for just about every baked good that will entice beginner bakers and experienced pastry makers alike.

70 delicious one-pan, no-fuss baking recipes from the first ever winner of the Great British Bake Off. Whether you want cookies or cakes, pastries or desserts, something fruity, chocolatey, spiced or nutty, baking just got a whole lot easier.

With chapters including Cakes, Brownies & Cookies, Pastry, Desserts, No-Bake Bakes and Buns & Breads, there’s plenty to choose from to create a beautiful bake, that only lacks the washing up. Try Anzac Caramel Slices for a sweet treat with a salty kick, Rhubarb Strawberry Cobbler for an easy summer dessert, or Tahini Babka Buns for those weekend pastry cravings.

You need minimal equipment and skill to whip up something fruity, chocolatey, spiced or nutty – One Tin Bakes is full of versatile and achievable recipes that celebrate the flavours of both traditional and modern bakes from around the world, each with a special Edd Kimber twist.

‘Baking requires skill and perfection and Edd’s got it. ‘ – Mary Berry’This book is a peek inside the mind of one of my favorite bakers, where creativity with butter and sugar is paired with solid technique and downright fun.

Edd shares a true world of possibilities – all within a 9×13 tin. This book is an absolute must-have for every home baker. ‘ Joy Wilson’A brilliant idea for a book’ and a ‘must-have’ Nigella Lawson ‘Edd Kimber brings baking back into British homes’ – British Vogue.

The complete and “charming” (Gourmet) collection of deliciously old-fashioned and deeply satisfying recipes from everyone’s favorite New York City cupcake bakery—Magnolia Bakery. Ever since the original Magnolia Bakery opened its doors in 1996, people have lined up day and night to satisfy their sugar cravings—and this book is Magnolia’s comprehensive guide to making all of their beloved desserts, including their home-style cupcakes, layer cakes, banana pudding, and other treats.

Illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs that capture the daily life of the bakery, The Complete Magnolia Bakery Cookbook shows you how to make their famous banana pudding, sinfully rich buttercream icing and red velvet cake, and dozens more irresistible desserts.

There is nothing quite like the smell of a scrumptious steak and ale pie cooking in the oven. There perhaps isn’t anything better than the first taste of a caramel and coffee éclair. From Britain’s favourite expert baker comes a mouth-watering new book about two of our nation’s obsessions: pies and puddings.

Paul Hollywood puts his signature twist on the traditional classics, with easy-to-follow, foolproof and tantalising recipes for meat and potato pie, pork, apple and cider pie, lamb kidney and rosemary suet pudding, sausage plait and luxury fish pie.

He will show you how to create inventive dishes such as chicken and chorizo empanadas, chilli beef cornbread pies and savoury choux buns. If that isn’t enough, here you will find his recipe for the Queen of puddings, as well as spiced plum pizza, chocolate volcanoes and apple and Wensleydale pie.

There are also regional recipes like Yorkshire curd tart and the Bedfordshire clanger, and a step-by-step guide to all the classic doughs from rich shortcrust to choux pastry. Paul Hollywood’s Pies and Puds is simply a must-have.

Whether you’re a sweet or a savoury person, a keen novice or an expert baker: it’s time to get baking pies and puds.

THE BRAND-NEW OFFICIAL BAKING SHOW BOOK! The ultimate cake-baking bible: the first official, Americanized cookbook from The Great British Baking Show The Big Book of Amazing Cakes brings the magic of The Great British Baking Show to your kitchen with easy-to-follow recipes for every shape, size and delicious flavor of cake you can imagine.

Featuring the very best cakes from inside the Baking Show tent, alongside much-loved family favorites, stunning showstoppers and classic bakes, the book is packed with expert advice and helpful tips for decorating.

From simple sponges to spectacular celebration cakes, aspiring star bakers will have everything they need to create the perfect bake for any occasion. Includes exclusive recipes by the season 10 bakers, and favorite bakes from contestants across all ten seasons.

Beautifully designed to fully replicate the feel of the print book, The Great British Book of Baking is a gorgeous addition to your eBook library. With full-colour images throughout, links to connecting recipes and an easily navigable content list and search function, baking is brought bang up to date in this digital format.

The book takes us on a tour of the very best in baking our nation has to offer from Eccles cakes to Cornish pasties, Chelsea buns to Scottish gingerbread. With trips to notable landmarks from baking history Melton Mowbray and Sandwich among the more famous, as well as locally loved secrets from towns and villages around the country the book highlights the importance of baking as part of our national heritage.

Narrative features explore the regions and showcase the real people behind this hugely popular culinary trend. Recipes that have been passed through the generations, securing themselves as baking classics, make up the chapters of this timely and beautiful book.

Throughout the the TV series, ten contestants from across the nation battle it out to be crowned Britain’s Best Baker. They face a series of challenges to test their baking skills to the max, and these recipes are included in the book.

Over 120 recipes, as well as numerous adaptations and suggestions, cover the whole range of baking skills from sweet jam tarts to savoury game pie, with flans, rolls, breads and all manner of luxurious cakes in between.

Learn how to make perfect puff pastry, the secrets to traditional hand-raised pies and discover the original recipe for West Country lardy cakes. Whether you want to try your hand at the delicate art of petticoat tails shortbread or dish up a hearty steak pie to a hungry family, you will be looking between the pages of The Great British Book of Baking time and time again as it serves up the very best recipes from around the British Isles.

Originally Published ten years ago – and shortly thereafter honored as the James Beard Foundation’s Cookbook of the Year (2003) – this cookbook is today every bit as relevant as it was then. And now the modern classic is in easy to use Flexibound Paperback, with its hundreds of easy and foolproof recipes, from yeast breads and sourdoughs to trendy flatbreads and crackers to family favorites such as pancakes and waffles.

Leading you through the steps of leavening, mixing, proofing, and kneading through shaping and baking, the experts at King Arthur Flour also include their best fried doughs, quick breads, batter breads, biscuits, quiches, cobblers and crisps, cookies, cakes, brownies, pies, tarts, and pastries.

For more than 200 years King Arthur Flour has been in the business of making the highest quality key ingredient in all of baking: flour. They’ve done decades of experimentation and research in their famous test kitchens on how the various ingredients in baked goods behave and why.

The Baker’s Companion, a kind of culmination of generations of loving work, brings you more than 350 recipes that teach you which ingredients work together as well as which don’t and why. It is this knowledge that will allow you to unleash your own creativity and to experiment in the kitchen.

You’ll get a complete overview of ingredients in chapters on flours, sweeteners, leaveners, fats, and more. You’ll find information on substitutions and variations, as well as troubleshooting advice from pros at King Arthur Four.

Accompanying the Channel 4 series, A Baker’s Life contains 100 of Paul Hollywood’s very best baking recipes, which have been finessed over decades spent as a baker. Each chapter is filled with bakes that represent a different decade – learning the basics at his father’s bakery; honing his pastry skills in the finest hotels; discovering the bold flavours of the Middle East while working in Cyprus; and finding fame with the phenomenally popular Great British Bake Off television series.

Thanks to this book (and its clear step-by-step instructions), recipes that Paul has spent years perfecting can be recreated at home. Favourites include garlic baguettes; feta and chive bread; chorizo and chilli Scotch eggs; mum’s ginger biscuits; double chocolate Danish twists; and hazelnut cappuccino cake.

With photographs from personal family albums, plus many professional insights into and anecdotes that reveal what makes a great baker, A Baker’s Life will show you how to bring the baking skills Paul has learnt over a lifetime into your own home kitchen.

The Pillsbury Bake-Off Contests began the tradition of bringing great dishes to the American table. Nearly fifty years, thirty-seven contests, and thousands of recipes later, the Bake-Off Contest has grown to become the most beloved and anticipated cooking contest in the world.

PILLSBURY: BEST OF THE BAKE-OFF COOKBOOK: 350 Recipes from America’s Favorite Cooking Contest celebrates this amazing competition and the thousands of contestants who have participated in it over the years.

PILLSBURY: BEST OF THE BAKE-OFF COOKBOOK shares all of the ingredients that go into the contest itself: prize-winning recipes, exciting culinary talent, and inspirational stories from the contestants themselves.

These components, combined with more than 120 full-color photographs, 100 sidebars featuring helpful cooking tips, anecdotes about the contest, and ten profiles of previous contest winners including this year’s million dollar winner, Kurt Wait make the book a true reflection of the Bake-Off Contest.

With nine chapters ranging from Soups, Salads and Sandwiches to Coffee Cakes, Cookies and Bars, PILLSBURY: BEST OF THE BAKE-OFF COOKBOOK includes 350 of the grand-prize recipes (chosen from more than 3,500) from each of the thirty-seven contests — the most comprehensive collection of prize-winning recipes ever published.

“The special thing about the Bake-Off recipes is that they are a reflection of how Americans are living and eating,” says Pillsbury. “These are not recipes created by a master chef, or the thoughts of a single company, but are the accumulated wisdom and experience of thousands of cooks who live real lives.

” The “best of the best” recipes, gathered fromcooks around the country, reveal a true sense of Americana. “The Bake-Off Contest is an American institution. It is an achievement of national stature, accomplished by real, average Americans who have won in an absolutely upright, thorough, and principled contest,” says Pillsbury.

The million dollar recipe from the 1996 Bake-Off Contest, Macadamia Fudge Torte, is included as well as hundreds of other mouthwatering winning recipes, savory and sweet, that range from Cookie Dough Brownies and Choco-Nut Sweet Treats to Savory Mashed Potato Pie and Southwest Tortellini Chowder.

The cooking contest’s splendid history is almost as appealing as the recipes themselves.