Berry Mary - Great British Bake Off: Celebrations: With recipes from the 2015 Series

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This book is published to accompany the television series entitled The Great British Bake Off, first broadcast on BBC ONE in 2015

Executive Producer: Anna Beattie
Series Producer: Paolo Proto
Series Director: Andy Devonshire
Food Producer: Chloe Avery
Home Economists: Faenia Moore & Becca Watson
Unit Manager: Deborah St John Gray
Commercial Director: Rupert Frisby
Commissioning Editor: Claire Patterson

First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Hodder & Stoughton
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Hardback ISBN 978 1 473 61533 5
Ebook ISBN 978 1 473 61534 2

Editorial Director: Nicky Ross
Editor: Sarah Hammond
Copy Editor: Norma MacMillan
Art Director & Designer: Alice Laurent
Photographer: Rita Platts
Food Stylist: Emma Marsden
Props Stylist: Louie Waller
Production Manager: Claudette Morris
Art Editor: Kate Brunt
Art Director: Alasdair Oliver

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Every year The Great British Bake Off celebrates anew the special place baking holds in our national identity.

From family meals to birthday parties and home-cooked teas to the big dates in the community calendar, nothing says celebration like a home-made bake. So this year, we have devoted our book to recipes that will help you make the most out of every occasion, no matter how large or small.

There are fantastic centrepieces for the times when you need a real showstopper a Tiered Raspberry & White Chocolate Cheesecake (see ) as well as simpler recipes like a citrus Madeira cake or White Chocolate Butterscotch Blondies for when all you want is a failsafe yet delicious bake to welcome unexpected visitors.

The Judges recipes provide the perfect excuse to impress, whether its serving your own freshly made bread or whipping up a batch of handmade biscuits, whilst the Bakers recipes will inspire you with their creativity and ingenuity. Introducing new flavours and techniques, the recipes are a showcase for how the Bakers embrace different ideas and ingredients from around the world.

So many of our Bakers started out because they had something significant to celebrate making a sisters wedding cake, for example, or baking for a big family gathering, but you dont have to restrict your baking to the big events. Whatever the occasion, we hope this book will encourage and inspire you to celebrate for yourselves everything that we love about baking.

There are so many avenues to go down to express yourself. I wish I had started baking much earlier. When I go back to the Philippines I love to flip through my mums old recipe books.

ALVIN

I am always looking for ideas for new flavour and texture sensations, all the clever little surprises that can add finesse to baking.

DORRET

Birthdays, Christmas, Easter, Bonfire Night, Burns Night our family jump at any excuse for big get-togethers. My mum and I like nothing better than to get our pinnies on and spend a whole day cooking and baking.

FLORA

Baking breads and brioche is what I really love. Luckily my son doesnt have a sweet tooth, so for his birthday he was very happy with an artistic pile of scones!

IAN

When my wife and I were getting married, we wanted a macaroon tower instead of a conventional wedding cake Id never baked anything before, but I decided to do the macaroons myself and my first batch were perfect! That is how I started baking.

MAT

Decorating cakes for my grandchildrens birthdays gives me the chance to experiment. Ive done daleks, zombies and even Cinderella running down the stairs. That took some doing!

MARIE

My father is an amazing cook, but he doesnt believe in rules. He is always curious, and Im the same. I like to take a recipe and then put my own twist on it.

NADIYA

Ever since a friend asked me to make a wedding cake decorated with sugar orchids, Ive been hooked on the creation of sugar flowers. Im obsessed with getting them as botanically correct as possible, down to every tiny vein and detail.

PAUL