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How to Cheat at Baking

Sarah Rainey
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781789299090
  • Weight: 350g
  • Dimensions: 187 x 253mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Aug 2026
  • Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

Fake it ’til you bake it with 70 deliciously simple recipes and supermarket cake hacks.

’Proof that baking can be low-effort and deeply satisfying’ - Rachel Khoo

Why make life harder than it needs to be? If you love home-baked treats but don’t have the time, energy or budget for complicated recipes and endless ingredient lists, How to Cheat at Baking is your new secret weapon.

From biscuit-based traybakes and freezer cakes to air fryer wonders and microwave miracles, every foolproof recipe is designed to save you time without skimping on flavour. Whether you’re a tired parent, a hungry student or just someone who likes a cheat code, this is baking for real life – no pastry-making, proving time or piping skills required for the fab fake bakes. This collection of sweet treats is sure to become a fast family favourite.

Includes:
No-Bake Millionaire’s Shortbread
Choc-Orange Cheesecake
One-Minute Microwave Cookies
Cinnamon Dough-Bake
Strawberries & Cream Ripple Cake
Fake Fab Lollies
Air-Fryer Banana Muffins
Chocolate Hazelnut Hippo Cake
Two-Ingredient Bagels
Boursin & Bacon Quiches

Praise for Sarah Rainey:
‘The queen of store cupboard baking’ – Huffington Post UK

‘Sarah [is] an expert on how to cheat recipes if you are missing key ingredients’ – The Times
About Sarah Rainey
Sarah Rainey has been baking, cooking, eating, writing and thinking about food for as long as she can remember. Originally from Belfast, she has been a national newspaper feature writer, based in London, for the past seven years. Sarah edited How to Jug a Hare: The Telegraph Book of the Kitchen in 2015 and is the author of Three Ingredient Baking (2018) and 6-Minute Showstoppers (2020). In her day job, she writes on a range of diverse subjects and her culinary achievements to date include cooking in the MasterChef kitchen and making 339 traybakes in a single weekend (and surviving to tell the tale).

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