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French Bakes Made Simple: From macaron to millefeuille and more
'Baking requires skill and perfection, and Edd's got it.' Mary Berry
'Edd Kimber has made everyone's favourite French desserts and pastries accessible and easy to make. From buttery sable cookies to crusty canelés and flaky croissants, anyone can bake and enjoy the best French pastries, right in their own kitchen!' David Lebovitz
'Edd's desserts taste as good as they look - these delicious recipes inspire the baker in all of us.' Philippe Conticini
This is a new edition of Edd Kimber's ultimate baking cookbook that will help you recreate all the wonderful treats you'd find in a traditional French patisserie. With easy-to-follow step-by-step guides, Edd takes you through the techniques you'll need to make your own classic French bakes, from a moist and tasty genoise sponge to that quintessential icon of French the flaky, buttery croissant.
Chapters
- Sweet Classic Financiers, Canelés and Eclairs
- Desserts & Cherry Clafoutis and Buche de Noel
- Easy guides to making Pâte Sablée and Pâte Sucrée, and recipes for delicious tarts to use them in
- Essential icings and creams, such as Mousseline and Crème Chantilly
Edd's mouthwatering recipes use bakeware found in most household kitchens, removing the need for expensive or complex equipment and allowing you to create the perfect patisserie in your own home.
'Edd Kimber has made everyone's favourite French desserts and pastries accessible and easy to make. From buttery sable cookies to crusty canelés and flaky croissants, anyone can bake and enjoy the best French pastries, right in their own kitchen!' David Lebovitz
'Edd's desserts taste as good as they look - these delicious recipes inspire the baker in all of us.' Philippe Conticini
This is a new edition of Edd Kimber's ultimate baking cookbook that will help you recreate all the wonderful treats you'd find in a traditional French patisserie. With easy-to-follow step-by-step guides, Edd takes you through the techniques you'll need to make your own classic French bakes, from a moist and tasty genoise sponge to that quintessential icon of French the flaky, buttery croissant.
Chapters
- Sweet Classic Financiers, Canelés and Eclairs
- Desserts & Cherry Clafoutis and Buche de Noel
- Easy guides to making Pâte Sablée and Pâte Sucrée, and recipes for delicious tarts to use them in
- Essential icings and creams, such as Mousseline and Crème Chantilly
Edd's mouthwatering recipes use bakeware found in most household kitchens, removing the need for expensive or complex equipment and allowing you to create the perfect patisserie in your own home.
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192 pages, Hardcover
Published June 10, 2025
About the author
Edd Kimber
21 books27 followersEdd Kimber is a baker, food writer and TV personality and is the author of three cookbooks - The Boy Who Bakes (2011), Say It With Cake (2012) and Patisserie Made Simple (Oct 2014).
Edd grew up in a house where baking was a regular occurrence, his first memory was standing on a stool in the kitchen helping his mum to make mince pies. After studying politics at university Edd realised the corporate world wasn’t for him and after entering and winning the first series of The Great British Bake Off (BBC Two) he has jumped at the chance of following his passion for baking.
Edd writes for several magazines and newspapers including regular features in BBC Good Food, Delicious and Waitrose Kitchen. Edd has also made regular appearances on TV including on Sunday Brunch and as resident baker on The Alan Titchmarsh Show (ITV 2014) as well as on his own Christmas special ‘John and Edd's Christmas Bakes’ (Food Network 2013).
Theboywhobakes.co.uk has been named as one of the best UK blogs by Woman and Home Magazine and as one of the best baking blogs by Channel4.com.
Edd grew up in a house where baking was a regular occurrence, his first memory was standing on a stool in the kitchen helping his mum to make mince pies. After studying politics at university Edd realised the corporate world wasn’t for him and after entering and winning the first series of The Great British Bake Off (BBC Two) he has jumped at the chance of following his passion for baking.
Edd writes for several magazines and newspapers including regular features in BBC Good Food, Delicious and Waitrose Kitchen. Edd has also made regular appearances on TV including on Sunday Brunch and as resident baker on The Alan Titchmarsh Show (ITV 2014) as well as on his own Christmas special ‘John and Edd's Christmas Bakes’ (Food Network 2013).
Theboywhobakes.co.uk has been named as one of the best UK blogs by Woman and Home Magazine and as one of the best baking blogs by Channel4.com.
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October 10, 2025
I follow Edd on Instagram so I knew what this book was going in, a reprint of a book he had written years ago. As far as I can tell it is just another edition printed to look like how his current publisher prints the more recent output. If you care about such things like your cookbooks from the same author being uniform (I do, it just bothers me) it’s worth it.
It’s very French, as the title suggests but isn’t that why you bought it? Like all his cookbooks the instructions are clear and simplified in addition to being beautifully shot. I bought it for the madeleines recipe and it has several helpful tips that I did not know about. He gives explanations for more traditional French pastries and it reads how it was obviously intended, as a love letter to French baking. 10/10
It’s very French, as the title suggests but isn’t that why you bought it? Like all his cookbooks the instructions are clear and simplified in addition to being beautifully shot. I bought it for the madeleines recipe and it has several helpful tips that I did not know about. He gives explanations for more traditional French pastries and it reads how it was obviously intended, as a love letter to French baking. 10/10
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