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Six-Minute Showstoppers

Six-Minute Showstoppers

Delicious bakes, cakes, treats and sweets – in a flash!

Summary

Treat the whole family with ridiculously quick, easy and awe-inspiring desserts that anyone can rustle up in just SIX MINUTES

'The queen of store cupboard baking' Huffington Post

Creating mouth-watering sweets, treats and desserts has never been easier. With minimal ingredients and time-saving shortcuts, these easy and delicious recipes won't compromise on flavour or wow factor.

The best part? They're guaranteed to be on your plate in just six minutes.

This revolutionary new cookbook proves that baking doesn't have to be time-consuming, stressful or expensive. Perfect for home cooks and impatient foodies, these 100 recipes are easy, affordable and simple and ready to eat in 360 seconds - that's less time than it takes to drink a cup of coffee!

Satisfy your sweet tooth with:

- PIMM'S CUPCAKES
- MICROWAVE BROWNIES
- BUTTERSCOTCH BANOFFEE PIE
- CINNAMON CRONUTS
- NUTELLA GRIDDLE COOKIES
- UNICORN BARK
- HALLOUMI FRITTERS

Put the fun and magic back into baking. It has to be tried to be believed . . .

Reviews

  • Perfectly suited to our renewed penchant for baking during lockdown
    Huffington Post

About the author

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 studied Law at Cambridge, lived for a period in Madrid and 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. In her day job, she writes on a range of diverse subjects, from new-fangled kitchen gadgets to people who keep pet goats. Her dream is to one day open a tea shop selling freshly baked cakes, scones and biscuits. Sarah's culinary achievements to date include baking a sticky ginger sponge for Mary Berry, cooking in the Masterchef kitchen and making 339 tray-bakes in a single weekend (and surviving to tell the tale).
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