Simple Cakes Delicious Step By Step Recipes by Mary Berry - HardcoverDefault Title (2024)

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Mary Berry's easy Victoria sponge cake recipe is a baking classic and a tasty tea-time treat.

Queen of cakes Mary Berry insists that margarine makes for a lighter texture than butter. This is true, especially for the “all-in-one” method, where all the ingredients are beaten to a batter in a food processor.

You can always trust in a Mary Berry cake recipe and these are her easiest ever. Whatever your favourite cake, Mary Berry is sure to have an easy version for you. This delicious, traditional cake is so moreish – when testing this recipe, we couldn't eat it fast enough!

In British English, layer cakes like the Victoria sponge are called "sandwich sponge". This type of buttery cake was not possible without baking powder, which was discovered by English food manufacturer Alfred Bird in 1843, allowing the sponge to rise higher.

Macaroni and Cheese

It's Martha's favorite mac and cheese, so you know it's really good. The recipe uses two cheeses, sharp white cheddar and Gruyère, and the result is a cozy baked pasta just right for a weeknight dinner or the holiday table.

With sixty years cooking experience, Mary Berry is considered to be the doyenne of baking.

Butter is the favoured fat to use in cakes and bakes and we use unsalted butter for all of our cakes in the bakeries. It is made from churned cream, a process that separates the butterfat from the buttermilk. It is typically made from cow's milk and is yellow in colour.

Oprah Winfrey LOVES Carousel Cakes and we're grateful for the attention she has given to our family's bakery over the years. Lots of our customers found out about Carousel from “Oprah's Favorite Things”.

Why doesn t Mary Berry leave Bake Off? ›

Mary Berry, who served as a judge on The Great British Bake Off, decided not to continue with the show when it moved from the BBC to Channel Four for several reasons. One of the main reasons was her loyalty to the BBC, where she had worked for many years and felt a strong connection to.

For the buttercream, beat the butter in a large bowl until soft. Add half of the icing sugar and beat until smooth. Add the remaining icing sugar and one tablespoon of the milk and beat the mixture until creamy and smooth. Add the remaining tablespoon of milk if the buttercream is too thick.

Oil Cake. Oil cakes follow the same principles as butter cakes, but use oil as the source of fat. Because oil is liquid at room temperature, oil cake recipes skip the step of creaming the fat and sugar; usually the oil is incorporated into the wet ingredients, which are whisked or folded into the dry ingredients.

The traditional recipe for an English wedding cake is a fruit cake. This type of cake has a long shelf life. In fact, a tier of the wedding cake is often saved for the Christening of the couple's future offspring.

“Fairy cakes are smaller units, baked in smaller cases and trays,” she told British Baker. ”Traditionally the tops were cut off and set aside, a small amount of jam placed in the centre and a small amount of cream on top.

Mary Berry's bestselling cookery books include: Fast Cakes, Classic, Mary Berry's Baking Bible, Mary Berry's Complete Cookbook, Mary Berry Cookery Course, Simple Cakes, The Complete Aga Cookbook, Mary Berry: Foolproof Cooking, Mary Berry Everyday, Mary Berry's Family Sunday Lunches and the autobiography Recipe for Life ...

Mary Berry is an iconic British food writer who is very well known for her family-friendly recipes and cooking style. From a very young age, Mary had a talent with cooking and studied domestic sciences at school before she went on to study catering at college.

Pasta with cured ham and asparagus

Another dinner favourite of Mary's is: "A really good sausage, the ingredients for celeriac and potato mash with crème fraîche and some English roasted vegetables," she told The Times.