How to Cheat at Baking
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The ultimate baking book for busy bakers wanting to achieve maximum impact with minimum effort. Packed with 65 foolproof recipes that transform basic supermarket ingredients into stunning cakes, desserts and treats.
A fun, foolproof baking book packed with delicious recipes and supermarket hacks. How to Cheat at Baking helps you fake it, bake it and love it – no skills (or stress) required.
Fake it ’til you bake it with 70 deliciously simple recipes and supermarket cake hacks.
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
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781789299090
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 13 August 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Illustration: full colour photos
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 17.0mm
Width: 187.0mm
Height: 253.0mm
Weight: 350g
Pages: 128
About the Author
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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