As The Great British Bake Off returns to our screens, we've compiled our top 5 favourite baking magazines for the ultimate in baking inspiration. Making mouths water with every issue, these are the best cake and bake glossies in the business. It's time to turn those ovens on, ladies and gentlemen...
1. Baking Heaven magazine
Bringing you the ultimate sweet AND savoury bakes, Baking Heaven magazine is serious about baking. Filled with perfect pastries, colourful cakes, decadent desserts, scrumptious savouries and tempting treats aplenty, this is the ultimate in baking magazines. Featuring 101 recipes in every issue, you'll be busy baking until the next bi-monthly issue drops through the door...
2. BBC Good Food magazine
Guaranteed seasonal goodness inside every issue, the ever glorious Good Food is a serious contender for the top spot. Intriguing showstoppers are the name of the game (that ice cream cake above is a great example) and you're just as likely to find a marvellous midweek meal in these pages as a delicious dessert. Reignite your baking mojo and find new flavours with every issue!
3. Olive magazine
Super swaps, sure-fire instagram hits and travel inspiration straight to your table - Olive magazine is hard to beat. In terms of bakes, expect to take them with a twist. Brownies? Add wagon wheels to the mix. Lemon shortbread? Add pink pepper for a kick. You'll also find tips on cooking like a local - from London to Lisbon and everywhere in between.
4. Delicious magazine
A food and baking magazine that truly lives up to its namesake, Delicious magazine is filled with mouthwatering makes and bakes for even the most reluctant chef. Past bakes include the jaw-dropping gin & tonic cheesecake (above), frangelico chocolate hazelnut tart and chocolate, cardamom and caramel tear-apart bread. Sign us up, pronto!
5. Free-From Heaven magazine
Once a no-go zone for coeliacs and gluten-free diets, baking is now every bit as easy sans-wheat! Free-From Heaven is filled with fantastic makes, cakes and bakes for gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free and vegan diets - phew! Filled with helpful hints on flour alternatives and outstanding bakes with fantastic flavours and perfect textures, it's the ultimate read for anyone who loves to bake AND eat their cake.
