Short and Sweet

Winner of the Andre Simon Food Book Award 2011


The ultimate baking compendium from Dan Lepard, the country's foremost baking guru.


Innovative yet down-to-earth, Dan Lepard is the baker every top chef wants for their restaurant, and with this utterly dependable how-to-bake book you'll be able to replicate Dan's award-winning recipes from the comfort of your own kitchen.


Guiding you through the crispest flatbreads, blue cheese and oatmeal biscuits, gluten-free white loaves, savoury leek and smoked haddock pies, caramel sweets, frostings, crumbly scones and pumpkin and ginger cupcakes, `Short and Sweet' will show you how to use the newest flours and ingredients and has everything from updates on the classics to the latest in baking for intolerances.


Collecting together Dan's best recipes - and mixing science with old-fashioned kitchen wisdom - Dan has tried and tested almost every baking technique out there. So go ahead and take the cake - and the biscuits and the pastries too!