This title features over 400 recipes for pies, tarts, buns, muffins, cookies and cakes, shown in 1800 step-by-step photographs. It offers over 400 recipes featuring delectable homemade breads, pies, tarts, muffins, cookies and cakes, including a selection of low-fat recipes. It features a comprehensive techniques section, covering all the ingredients, equipment and skills you will need, including how to line tins, bake blind, make a lattice top for a pie, or make the base for a cheesecake. All you need to know about making bread - from everyday loaves to international classics such as French brioche, American bagels and Italian polenta bread. It includes delicious recipes for cakes and family tea-time treats that will tempt you to take up traditional home baking. Every recipe is shown step by step, with nutritional information and detailed calorie counts. This compendium of baking offers a wonderful spread of recipes for all kinds of baked goods, including scones, muffins, tea breads, meringues, cookies, pastry, cakes and breads. The book begins with a comprehensive techniques section explaining how to bake. Over 400 tempting recipes covers everything from country cookies and traditional pies to cakes and tortes, with crunchy jumbles, lemon chiffon cake and chocolate frosted layer cake. A chapter of low-fat cakes and bakes, with plum filo pockets and raspberry vacherin, proves that low in fat doesn't have to mean low in taste. Use this book to fill your kitchen with the irresistible scents of baking.