Foolproof cakes : step by step to everyone's favourite cake recipes

Mary Berry has a long-established reputation for providing the home cook with easy-to-follow, reliable recipes but, if there's one area where she is the undisputed queen of the kitchen, it's cake-making.

In Foolproof Cakes, soon to be available in paperback as Simple Cakes, Mary guides you step-by-step through the art of making all kinds of cakes, biscuits and pastries.

All 40 of Marys recipes which range from a classic Tarte Tatin to a sumptuous Sacher Torte, Lemon Drizzle Traybake and Devonshire Scones use readily available ingredients.

The recipes are accompanied by colour photographs at every stage to make this notoriously tricky area of cooking even easier.

With clear, easy-to-follow methods, Mary Berrys fail-safe instructions guarantee even the novice cook excellent results every time.