The follow up to one of my favourite recent baking books, The Plain Cake Appreciation Society, this is a wonderful collection of all those lovely bakes that you only need a small bite of to enjoy. The lemon gems on the cover are from the chapter titled Rose Petals, Custard & Pastry Flecked Dreams, and if that doesn’t make you want to cook it all then keep reading until you get to Pantry Keepers & Postable Love, because perhaps we all need to send home baking to friends in need in other places. See our extract.

Felicity O’Driscoll of Cook the Books brings us her pick of the new releases.
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