Did I need another cookbook? No. That didn't stop me from picking this one up from The Works, spending £6.99 to add it to my collection. I am a big fan of baking, and enjoyed Lorraine's series on BBC2, so it was inevitable that this would end up being added to my collection. ==Who is Lorraine Pascale?== I was a bit late catching Lorraine's series on TV, so she had been around for a bit longer than I realised. Lorraine is a former model, who retrained to become a chef, specialising in patisserie. She has had three TV series, three books published, and has opened The Cupcake Bakehouse in Covent Garden. All this has happened in the space of a ...  Read the complete review

I first got into Lorraine Pascale one sleepless night when I decided to watch an episode of her 'Baking Made Easy' cooking programme on catch up TV. I was hooked after the first 5 minutes. So I watched another episode, and another, and another! What really stood out was the ease and the basic ingredients Lorraine used to make outstandingly good, mouth-watering dishes. You can imagine my delight when I found all of her recipes in one book. No more pausing and rewinding her video clips. Baking Made Easy published by Harper Collins in May 2011 is a hardback yet affordable recipe book consisting of 256 pages and available from most book retailers. I ...  Read the complete review

Hardcover: 256 pages - Kindle version: 7.99 GBP Publisher: HarperCollins (01/2011) Not so long ago, on a cold, damp night I had pangs for the scent of home baking - the same home baking smell I grew up in, when bread crumbled as it should and melted in the cake-hole like a moist spongy crumpet and cakes oozed with jam and cream and when pizza's were home made - then I saw your smile Lorraine. You're a Dahl Following in the Sophie Dahl footsteps 'The Delicious Miss Dahl'; Lorraine Pascale opts for the same culinary career - a six part BBC series - emulating Dahl, to the book a year later - a model turn TV Chef. Women wearing aprons ...  Read the complete review

From: Lisa Smith [mailto:leeseylicious@hotmail.com] Sent: 27 August 2012 21:42 To: Lisa Smith Subject: baking made easy lp 'Baking Made Easy' is the first cookbook by model turned patisserie chef Lorraine Pascale and accompanied the BBC TV series of the same name. I have to say I was not a massive fan of her programme, finding her presenting style quite cringeworthy and amateurish but was won over by the recipes in this book and went ahead and purchased it. The book is hardback with glossy pages with a looseleaf cover (something I always recommend you remove if you're planning to cook from it a lot as it easily gets ...  Read the complete review

For a lover of baking this book is a must have. I own quite a few baking and cupcake recipe books, and most are either full of the same recipe that has just been tweaked slightly, or bizarre one's that would require a dedicated trip to the shops even if you wanted to make them. Lorraine Pascale's book however, actually has some really nice proper recipes of things you would actually want to bake and cook. Not only that, it is more of a complete recipe book, rather than just a sweets and cake book it has savoury recipes, and dinner party menu ideas - basically it's about anything you can cook in the oven. I have to strongly recommend her Glam Mac & Cheese, ...  Read the complete review