Simple Cakes Delicious Step By Step Recipes by Mary Berry - HardcoverDefault Title (2024)

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What is Mary Berry's most famous recipe? ›

Some of Mary Berry's most popular recipes include Lemon Drizzle Cake, Beef Wellington, Chicken and Mushroom Pie, and Victoria Sponge.

“I no longer prepare a Victoria sandwich with the traditional creaming and folding methods, as [an] all-in-one method gives excellent results every time,” she said. For those who struggle to get butter to optimum baking consistency, Mary recommends using baking spread instead.

Butter is the favoured fat to use in cakes and bakes and we use unsalted butter for all of our cakes in the bakeries.

Martha Stewart's Favorite Butter Brands

Some butters are really salty." Stewart told the publication she tends to bake with two different butter brands: Vermont Creamery and Kerrygold. Even though they're “just butter,” Vermont Creamery's cultured butter and Kerrygold's Irish butter are anything but basic.

Go with room temperature ingredients

Make sure that the butter you use is not too cold. Using cold butter can make you over-mix since it takes a long time to thoroughly mix butter, sugar and eggs. You can end up with a cake that is too heavy. Avoid all that by simply using room temperature ingredients.

Sprinkle in lemon or orange zest to give your box cake batter a hint of zing. You can also replace the water with lemon, orange or lime juice or soda. Use this method with any type of cake mix, but it works best with lemon, yellow and white cake.

How to make Mary Berry's fruit cake? ›

Put the flour, grated nutmeg, mixed spice, butter, sugar, eggs, chopped almonds, black treacle and the citrus zest into a large bowl and beat well to mix thoroughly. Fold in the soaked fruits. Spoon the mixture into the prepared cake tin and spread out evenly with the back of a spoon.

Lemon juice naturally contains citric acid which quickly reacts with the base present in the baking powder producing CO2 and sodium citrate. This may lead to undesirable flavors and poor crust color due to lower pH of the product after baking.

With sixty years cooking experience, Mary Berry is considered to be the doyenne of baking. Mary learned the art of baking from her mother before training at the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu in Paris at the age of just 17.

We call her Bez or Bezzer most of the time," Mel Giedroyc says looking across at Mary Berry. "Or Mucky Mary," says Sue Perkins, "or Dirty Bezzer.

Mary Makes it Easy: The new ultimate stress-free cookbook (Hardback) Accompanying the BBC series of the same name, Mary Makes it Easy showcases 120 hassle-free recipes from the indomitable Mary Berry, ranging from one pot wonders to delicious desserts.

Mary Makes It Easy is a Canadian television cooking show hosted by Mary Berg, which premiered on CTV Life Channel in 2021. The show, which is shot in Berg's real home kitchen, is designed around simple, easy-to-make recipes for people who struggle with their cooking skills.