Bake with Benoit Blin: Master Cakes, Pastries and Desserts Like a Professional

With a foreword by Raymond Blanc

Develop your baking skills, understand the building blocks to baking brilliantly and learn core techniques to use in Benoit’s foolproof recipes.

Each recipe is one of three levels, so you can start with the basics and work your way up from baking novice to creating show-stopping creations:
* Sweet and Simple,
** Baking Star
*** Bake Like a Pro

Following Benoit’s guidance, you’ll make classic doughs, including puff pastry, choux pastry and brioche, learning how to create stand-out bakes with perfect texture and flavour. Try your hand at crispy, buttery Palmiers, classic viennoiseries like Pain aux Raisin, build pies and tarts including Tarte Tatin and Salted Caramel Millionaire Chocolate Tart, and make traditional offerings such as Coffee & Orange Crème Brûlée and Macarons, as well as impressive recipes like Lemon & Grapefruit Dacquoise.

With this masterclass from Chef Pâtissier at Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons and judge of Bake Off: The Professionals, you will be inspired to create your own masterpieces at home.

Benoit Blin has been the Chef Patissier at Le Manoir aux Quat-Saisons for over 25 years, Raymond Blanc’s right-hand man! He is also a judge on Bake Off: The Professionals and Crème de la Crème. He teaches a variety of courses at the Raymond Blanc Cookery School, and achieved the title of MCA in 2005.