100 Cakes and Bakes (My Kitchen Table) Paperback – April 1, 2012

I love this cookbook! It's a tiny gem! I've never been into baking, but after watching The Great British Bakeoff, I wanted to try my hand at some home baked goodies. After watching and admiring Mary Berry on that show, I found this cookbook. Because it was NOT huge and encyclopedic, I bought it and began to work my way through the recipes that appealed to me most, starting with the simplest and working up to the more complex. Every one is a winner! No disappointments. Delicious, and, what's more important, clear and easy to understand, with handy key tips for serving and storing. I feel that this little cookbook has really allowed me to build up my confidence and thus my expertise/skill as a baker. The perfect baking primer - just learn by doing. Highly recommended!

I own a lot of cook books, trawl online for recipes and I bake almost every weekend. Many times recipes simply don't work. So far I have tried 5 recipes and had 5 hits. This is first for me.The book is well laid out. A recipe with a picture on the adjacent page. It's always great to know what you are aim for. The recipes are simple, instructions are clear and the final product great.My only tiny complaint would be that the book I received was small, and writing smaller. It's a struggle to read sometimes, especially when the print is coloured. Other than that it's absolutely brilliant !

Mary Berry the "Queen of Cakes" gives as a compact, but informative little cookbook. 100 fine recipes that will keep you cooking for years. Please note, the recipes are in metric, but are all provided with it. Example: 275g (10 oz) self-rising flour. The over temps are NOT provided in Fahrenheit (F), on in Celcius (C) or the Gas level. Consult a C to F conversion chart like [...]

This is a very nice cook book with lots of cake recipes. The measurements and baking temperatures are the European measurements, so you need to do some converting to the American measurements. Any look on the internet will help you understand the conversions to American measurements. Also, some ingredients may sound confusing, but, if you check on the internet you should be able to find the ingredients or substitutions easily. If you enjoy baking there are lots of cakes you are going to want to try baking.

Although this volume is tiny, it's packed with to the point tips and recipes. American readers will need to do conversation of temperature and amounts, but these efforts will be well worth it!!I promptly baked the first recipe, a Victoria Sanswich, following the converted recipe exactly. My British friend said it was the best she'd ever had!I also purchased the first Brit Baking Challenge book- but The 100 is far superior

If you're a fan of The Great British Bake Off and want to learn how to bake some of the cakes that you hear mentioned, this book is a great gift for getting started! A lot of the cakes seem more advanced than any I would be able to make, but I am super excited to start getting better!The measurements are in British terminology (like grams) and mention things like caster sugar which I don't think we sell in the U.S., so it would be nice to have a companion guide for terms and measurements that us Yank's can understand ;-)Love Mary Berry!

Watched her on TV recently and thought I would add to my cookbook collection. The recipes do look promising with plenty of "normal" cakes in the list.BUT....this book was nearly $20 and is literally the size of a Reader's Digest magazine. The print is quite small and a fine type set and the ingredient lists are smaller yet and are in color. Each chapter is denoted by a different color on the top of the page and they then printed the ingredient list of the recipes in that section to match that color. The ingredients in the scones/buns section are in yellow/gold.Would have been a stunning book had they not been so stingy on the materials. A toss up as to whether I will send this back.

THIS BOOK IS EVERYTHING I READ ABOUT IN PREVIOUS REVIEWS. IT IS A GREAT LITTLE RECIPE BOOK PACKED FULL OF YUMMY RECIPES. AND IT HAS THE CONVERSION FROM GRAMS TO OUNCES . COULDNT PUT THIS BOOK DOWN TILL LATE INTO THE NIGHT. MAKING VICTORIA SPONGE TODAY.