Is there a more comforting and enticing smell than that of home baking wafting through a home? In this sumptuous baking book, Allyson Gofton shares her years of baking experience to create over 150 delicious and simple recipes to delight your taste buds. Stacked with Allyson's favourite family recipes, Bake will quickly become a much-loved addition to your home cookbook library. Bake has recipes for biscuits, shortbread, slices and brownies, scones, loaves, muffins and cup cakes, cakes, puds and tarts, and breads, plus:

• pantry essentials and kitchen equipment
• substitutions – when you've started baking and realise you're missing an ingredient
• baking with the food processor
• what went wrong? – how to resurrect a baking disaster so no one will ever know
• fast & furious – how to whip up a dessert for unexpected guests