mary berry recipes

sarah1

hello all,
i've just tried the mary berry 'cofffee and walnut cake' receipe posted on here and i must say i am very impressed:beer:
Does anyone have any other of this lovely ladies cake receipes ???

twink

go on to amazon books and type mary berry into the search box and scroll down to fast cakes and you can look into the book and get a few recipes, have a look at the index and if there are any you like i can pm them to you

thriftlady_2

I'm afraid I haven't time at the moment to copy out all my favourite Mary Berry recipes as there are too many but if you like her recipes then I really recommend you get hold of this book.

Things I make regularly from it are;
fork biscuits -plain and chocolate
oat rounds
gingerbread
plain traybake
all-in-one sponge sandwich -all variations
lemon drizzle cake
pound cake (made that one yesterday0
anzac biscuits
florentines
scones
rich celebration cake

I've also made the American wedding cake (for my Mum's 60th using 2 tiers instead of 3), the christening cake, brownies, lemon cheesecake, meringues and several others I can't remember right now.

It is my most reliable cookbook ever, I've never had a dud recipe from it.

pigpen

Thriftlady.. can you pm me the recipe for the American wedding cake? I am thinking of baking a cake for my sisters 21st but don't want to use my christmas cake recipe... TIA

moneywouldbegood

I know this thread is old, but seeing as it mentioned this cake I thought I would ask. I have the book - Mary Berry's Baking Bible, my mum borrowed it to make the coffee and walnut cake a few weeks ago and her cake looked like a brandy snap - it hadd risen around the sides and turned brandy snap like. I thought it was because she hadn't followed the recipe properly. It still tasted lovely tho. My boyfriend made it today and I told him to stick to it completely because of what had happened to my Mum's and it has turned out like hers. I can't think why it is going wrong. There are walnuts in the sponge, but they wouldnt have put them in the recipe if they ruin a sponge. We used Camp coffee essence, but it does say to use coffee essence.

Any ideas!!!?

:mad:

greenbee

I've made this and it was fine. Did you overbeat the mixture?

floyd

I also have problems with a MB recipe, the lemon drizzle cake didn't cook in the middle even after using an oven thermometer and adding extra time. Only about 1/2 the cake was salvageable as the rest was raw.
Right sized tin, right temp, correct ingredients so I have no idea why it didn't cook

lora

I have cooked hundreds of this cake and it has never gone wrong once. None of her recipes have ever failed.

soozywooz

I've just got the baking bible as birthday present. I'm delighted as we borrowed it from the library and the cakes look yummy! We tried the death by chocolate and it was lovely - i too have never had any problems with her recipes and I tend to approximate by spoonfuls rather than weighing everything.

Kitchenbunny

I have the Mary Berry's Favourite Recipe book on my shelf of which I've only used the cake recipes (so far). But I love her traybake recipe and make it a lot for birthdays - most recently the chocolate variation and the lemon drizzle. There's a few really nice puddings as well that I'm going to have to try.

KB xx

CurlyTop

I too have this book and the lemon drizzle, coffee and walnut, victoria sponge, fairy cakes etc, have always turned out as they should. Not a bad recipe amongst them.