Mary Berry Quotes

The process of making a wedding cake is complex on its own, from designing, mis-en-place, baking, frosting, structuring, decorating, to delivering.

For baked goods where lightness is a prized attribute - almost all cakes, some cookies - it's important to start with room-temperature butter.

You want to have a good cake? Get two engineers to build it.

Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.

I bake a chocolate cake from scratch every week.

I always loved cake. I loved the chemistry of it.

I love to bake. Cakes are my specialty - they have to be moist and sugary.

Cake is a very beautiful thing.

I'm bad at baking.

I love making cakes, and I'm good at it.

When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's pretty much an assembly job - you can mix and match a different way every time.

Spreadable butter is wonderful for cake-making: it's much easier to cream than the block type and slightly lighter because it's blended with oil.

I'm obsessed with muffins.

It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.

I could quite happily run a florist or a bake shop.

I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.

My idea of baking is buying a ready-make cake mix and throwing in an egg.

Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.

I won a prize for 'best sponge cake' at the Clacton Festival 2005. Having said that, I was only up against three other cakes.

As most people will tell you, the best pies have the best crusts. It has to be tender, flaky, and full of flavor. That is the key to a great pie.

Making cake is one of the easiest things in the world.

I've baked more cakes since I've been on 'Bake Off' than I have in my life.

Why not question what can or can't be a layer in layer cake?

Whipped ganache is a great gateway icing if you're working your way slowly into the vast world of egg-based buttercreams. It's just a few ingredients and far superior in flavor to the basic butter/sugar/milk frosting.

Baker, baker, can you explain, if truly his heart was made of icing.