You Had Me At Cake by Emelia Jackson

Eighty cake recipes from Emelia Jackson, designed to be approachable, adaptable, and impossible to mess up.

Baking holds a memory. Each slice carries the scent, the flavour, and the small wonder of a birthday, a friendship, a celebration. The act of cake-making has its own quiet rhythm too, all measuring, creaming, folding, and scraping, and Emelia's recipes are built so that rhythm actually works for the baker rather than against them.

Every style of cake is covered across four fully photographed chapters.

Hello, is it cake you're looking for? The basics done well, from one-bowl wonders like fluffy vanilla cake or carrot and pecan, through to the code-breaking recipe for proper café-style banana bread.

All you need is cake. A friendly introduction to nut meals, syrups, and more, with creative cakes that lift flavour and texture, including a roasted plum, brown sugar, and cinnamon pavlova for the kind of summer afternoon worth marking.

May the mini-cake be with you. Cake in all shapes and sizes, from mini lemon polenta cakes to cardamom and blackberry financiers, designed to travel well to a friend's place or to be wrapped up as a gift, once you've kept one back for yourself.

Around the world in 80 flavours. A trip through cultural staples, including Syrian orange cake, two Hungarian layer cakes worth the effort, and a French yoghurt cake that's astonishingly easy for what it delivers.

Eighty-plus recipes, flexible enough to suit any level of baker. Now show me the cake.

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