2022 Cookbook Gift Guide!

Featured in The Times Best Food Books of 2022

Create sensational showstopping cakes with this collection of dazzlingly delicious bakes from GBBO winner Rahul Mandal.

From advice on stacking a tier cake to piping flowers, creating the perfect flavour pairing and avoiding a curdled cake batter or buttercream, Rahul shares his scientific knowhow on achieving sublime bakes – as well as advice on how to fix things when they go wrong. Featuring everything from mirror glaze, meringue, genoise and caramel to drip, fault-line and geode cakes, these are jaw-droppingly beautiful bakes that will wow family and friends every time.

Home Cooked – Kate Humble

‘Kate Humble dishes up home-cooked heaven.’ – Daily Mail Weekend

A celebration of simple, seasonal home cooking full of flavour, comfort and joy. With more than 100 recipes from Kate Humble’s kitchen table, this is food to share from breakfast time to the evening meal – for lazy days, busy weeknights or gatherings, and everything in between.

‘Without preaching, this argues for eating meat in a better way, sustainably, ethically, intelligently and with an understanding of farming’ – Diana Henry, The Daily Telegraph

This book is a celebration of proper meat. Meat as it was before it got messed with. Before animals became a unit of production, but were reared to produce excellent food, and were willingly given an equally excellent life. Far from countering the vegan spike, this is the definition of fair, honest, sustainable food. This is meat done right

Bring the joy of chocolate into your home with fascinating stories, tantalising treats and irresistible creations devised by a world-class chocolatier.

Paul A. Young is a ground-breaking chocolatier, known for his daring flavours and artisanal approach to fine chocolate making. This delightfully decadent book is a love letter to chocolate, from the very fundamentals of what is chocolate and how to taste and buy, to achieving a world-class shine and blending flavour like a pro. It explains clearly and with creativity, so that by the end of the book, anyone from beginner to confident cook will be able to make the very best chocolate recipes.

Your Daily Veg – Joe Woodhouse

‘I absolutely adore the food in this beautiful book.‘ – Nigella Lawson

Deliciously simple cooking that just happens to be vegetarian, Your Daily Veg celebrates everyday vegetables in a fresh and modern way. Chapters focus either on one core vegetable or on a group of similar vegetables, celebrating seasonality and encouraging you to experiment.  With tips on how best to prep dishes and advice on minimising stress and time in the kitchen, each recipe is as straightforward as possible.

The Number .1 Sunday Times Bestseller

‘Pip Payne is on a mission to help us eat well, without feeling we’re on a diet.’ – BEST

The Slimming Foodie is known for her simple approach to food; she’s a firm believer that you don’t need to spend hours in the kitchen to deliver amazing results, nor do you have to completely change your eating habits to lose weight. With Pip’s clever swaps and cooking techniques, you can slim down while still enjoying all your favourite foods – it’s a modern weight-loss method that puts flavour first.

A brand-new baking collection from Bake Off’s Chetna Makan, with over 80 deliciously-tempting recipes that combine her love of simple home cooking with creative flavour twists.

In this new collection, Chetna showcases delicious sweet and savoury bakes which have easy-to-find ingredients and simple-to-follow methods, but a special flavour twist to make your bakes sing and shine. That could be a spice you might not expect, such as star anise in a tarte Tatin, a fusion of global incidences such as Masala Focaccia, or a twist on a classic, such as a drizzle cake dazzling with mango and ginger. Proving once again that simple baking methods are the best, Chetna’s inspirational recipes are a joy to make and share with your favourite people.

Persiana Everyday – Sabrina Ghayour

‘Sabrina Ghayour’s Middle-Eastern plus food is all flavour, no fuss – and makes me very, very happy’ – Nigella Lawson

‘Brilliant for the novice, the time-poor and even the seasoned cook’ – Guardian

The Sunday Times Bestseller

From the author of the no.1 Sunday Times bestselling Persiana, the newest cookbook from Sabrina Ghayour brings bold Middle Eastern tastes to your table everyday – and fast! – in this collection of 100 delicious and simple recipes.

Baking Imperfect – Lottie Bedlow

Lottie Bedlow was the stand-out star from Channel 4’s The Great British Bake Off 2020 and taught herself to bake through trial and error.

From simple recipes to encourage even the most inexperienced bakers through to more ambitious centrepieces, the focus is always on great flavour. Each recipe highlights potential pitfalls, with notes on what to look out for and how to find a fix.

This book will give you the confidence to go for it, encouraging you to try your best without taking baking (or yourself) too seriously.

Small Batch Bakes – Edd Kimber

The Sunday Times Bestseller

‘The book that every home baker – including me! – needs’ – Nigella Lawson

‘You’re always safe with Edd Kimber’ – Diana Henry, The Daily Telegraph

Baking recipes typically serve large groups, which is perfect for a party, a celebration or a crowd, but not when there’s just one or two of you and you would rather not spend the money on making a big batch, or be faced with eating leftovers for a week.

Following on from the huge success of One Tin Bakes and One Tin Bakes Easy, Great British Bake Off winner Edd Kimber’s new book proves that good things really do come in small packages!  It offers accessible, easy bakes that are perfect for singles, small households, students or anyone who likes to bake a lot.