Simple 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 Mary's 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 Berry's fail-safe instructions guarantee even the novice cook excellent results every time.