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mary berry recipes

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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 ???
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  • twink
    twink Posts: 3,826 Forumite
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    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
    thriftlady_2 Posts: 9,128 Forumite
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    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
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    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
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  • 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
    greenbee Posts: 17,762 Forumite
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    I've made this and it was fine. Did you overbeat the mixture?
  • floyd
    floyd Posts: 2,722 Forumite
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    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
    lora Posts: 148 Forumite
    I have cooked hundreds of this cake and it has never gone wrong once. None of her recipes have ever failed.
  • soozywooz
    soozywooz Posts: 20 Forumite
    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
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    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
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  • CurlyTop
    CurlyTop Posts: 379 Forumite
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    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.
    I got there - I'm debt free and intend to stay that way. If I haven't got the cash, it doesn't get bought. It's as simple as that.
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