 | Cupcake Magic by Kate Shirazi
Buy new: £5.02 / Used from: £3.36 Fab; cute little book, lots of ideas and free-range chickens! Plenty of inspiration for the cupcake lover
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 | Pretty Party Cakes: Sweet and Stylish Cookies and Cakes for All Occasions by Peggy Porschen
Buy new: £7.43 / Used from: £5.19 Love it, love it, love it; I need to give up sleeping to have more time to cook
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 | How to be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking by Nigella Lawson
Buy new: £10.32 / Used from: £8.49 The first Nigella book I bought; one of my cooking icons who thinks up the most wicked cakes. Chocolate gingerbread, yum yum.
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 | The Crabapple Bakery Cupcake Cookbook by Jennifer Graham
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £4.84 Lovely recipes, but be prepared to downsize quantities for manageable batch sizes
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 | Bake Me I'm Yours: Cup Cake: Over 100 Excuses to Indulge (Bake Me, I'm Yours...) by Joan Belgrove
Buy new: £5.69 / Used from: £4.01 Good for cupcake inspirations or reading when you want something cute to look at
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 | Cooking Class: Cake Decorating ("Australian Women's Weekly")
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £2.35 Have just bought this and am looking for an excuse to do some of the cakes
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 | Sue Lawrence's Book of Baking by Sue Lawrence
Buy used from: £8.00 Great all-round baking book; contains all the classics and more too
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 | Lesley Herbert's Complete Book of Sugarcraft Flowers by Lesley Herbert
Buy used from: £14.29 Truly gorgeous; wonderful to look through even when you're not making the flowers
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 | Nigella Bites: From Family Meals to Elegant Dinners, Easy, Delectable Recipes for Any Occasion by Nigella Lawson
Buy used from: £6.20 Good food, sensible shortcuts and some utter naughtiness. The chocolate cakes are just food pornography.
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 | Real Food by Nigel Slater
Buy new: £12.49 / Used from: £10.54 Nigel Slater is another of my favourite food writers ever; the recipes always work and I love his writing style.
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 | The American Diner Cookbook: More Than 450 Recipes and Nostalgia Galore by Linda Everett
Buy new: £7.26 / Used from: £11.09 Good bit of social history about the diner as well as representative recipes
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 | Jim Fobel's Old-Fashioned Baking Book: Recipes from an American Childhood by Jim Fobel
Buy new: £8.23 / Used from: £5.10 It's such a good job that reading cookbooks doesn't have a calorie count! Lots of classics in this...
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 | Cakes and Slices Cookbook ("Australian Women's Weekly" Home Library)
Buy used from: £1.27 I still can't better the rich fruit cake recipes in this book. I've had this book for years and it contains a number of favourites
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 | Christmas Cakes and Puddings ("Australian Women's Weekly" Home Library) by Australian Women's Weekly
Buy used from: £0.74 You can't beat a good fruit cake and there are some stonkers in this
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 | Sophie Conran's Pies by Sophie Conran
Buy used from: £42.08 Recipes that work and a huge amount of inspiration to make your own wonderful pies
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 | Be-Ro Home Recipes: Scones, Cakes, Pastry, Puddings by Be-Ro
It was reading my auntie's copy of one of these Be-ro books set me off on my cookbook quest when I was a child
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 | Cooking Like Mummyji by Vicky Bhogal
Buy used from: £69.96 Proper Punjabi home cooking; takes all the mystique out of cooking Asian food. Well worth it.
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 | The Ration Book Diet by Mike Brown
Buy used from: £1.84 More about the social history than the recipes, but this is an incredibly interesting read
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 | Finishing Touches The Art of Cake Decorating by Pat Ashby
Buy used from: £0.01 Bit of an oldie, but it gathers together all the basic techniques into one volume
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