Winner of the Andre Simon Food Book Award 2011 The ultimate baking compendium from Dan Lepard the country's foremost baking guru. Dan Lepard's innovative & earthy approach has made him the baker that every top chef wants in their kitchen & with this utterly dependable how-to-bake book you'll be baking cakes pastries breads & cookies like never before. Collecting together Dan's best recipes
- & mixing science with old-fashioned kitchen wisdom
- Dan has tried & tested almost every baking technique out there. Guiding you through the crispest flatbreads blue cheese & oatmeal biscuits gluten-free white loaves savoury leek & smoked haddock pies caramel sweets frostings simple scones & pumpkin & ginger cupcakes Short & Sweet uses the newest flours & ingredients & has everything from updates on the classics to the latest in baking for intolerances. If baking is therapy then Dan is your life coach. He'll show you how to improve what to work on how to take what is just ok right up to brilliant without a sweat. No wonder he is the country's cutting-edge baker.