All 40 of Mary's baking recipes, which range from a classic Tarte Tatin to a sumptuous Sacher Torte, Lemon Drizzle Traybake and Devonshire Scones, use readily available ingredients. The recipes are accompanied by colour photographs at every stage to make this notoriously tricky area of cooking even easier. With clear, easy-to-follow methods, Mary Berry's fail-safe instructions guarantee even the novice cook excellent results every time.

Mary Berry has a long-established reputation for providing the home cook with reliable, easy recipes but, if there's one area where she is the undisputed queen of the kitchen, it's cake-making. In Simple Cakes, Mary guides you step-by-step through the art of baking all kinds of cakes, biscuits and pastries.

All 40 of Mary's baking recipes, which range from a classic Tarte Tatin to a sumptuous Sacher Torte, Lemon Drizzle Traybake and Devonshire Scones, use readily available ingredients. The recipes are accompanied by colour photographs at every stage to make this notoriously tricky area of cooking even easier. With clear, easy-to-follow methods, Mary Berry's fail-safe instructions guarantee even the novice cook excellent results every time.