Two Poems by Roberta James The solace of java He winks, exudes a ‘look look’ look you see shimmer from a distance as you focus on...

Hollywood by JT Welsch Our Hollywood baker returns to England, a fall like his weaker contestants’ bread. Every day, another headli...

The Easy Cakes of Ottolenghi by Jacqueline Saphra In his salad days of skins and caves, man gave chase. He slaughtered buck, swallow...

On Typing Paper Stolen From Her Employers She Proceeds To Evolve A Campaign  by Amy Key A feeling that I should be writing a diary,...

i) expectations                                                  My mother is rolling out icing: her fondant pressed evenly against ...

Weigh, measure, dissolve. Learn the dialects of sugar. Make sweets hard, harder, hardest. Wring colours—red from cochineal, green f...

Rum babas at the ready everyone. The Great British Bake Off is back on our screens on 20 Aug, and the Great British Bard Off pop-up poet...

We feed it year-long. Its sixpence heart waits for the great reveal (through summer's parched dominion, through another bastard ye...

         How painful to admit                                   so many cakes later                     that due to sloth & on...

  The seller sang  The Christmas Song , rustling up the blackened beauties in paper bags, thrusting them to us. 'That’s tw...

Heap up the dried fruits, let them marinade all night, a second honeymoon of booze; an upset of almonds with their whiff of cyanide;...

The silver medal bears the firm’s name not her’s. No matter. I know how she formed fancy from sugar and water: roses in woven work, ...

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Great British Bard-off Star Baker is awarded to the poet with the most read poem....

What stirs here, friends? Ambition, hunger and the wooden spoon join together for the rise, fight to trap the crucial air. Our thr...

"that which hath so bound and firmely knit the hearts of all  your MAJESTIES loyall and Religious people unto you, that your...

To show her love, she liked to bake. Her sons ate three hot meals a day. Her lover liked a chocolate cake, so healthy l...

    The news was greeted W ith that peculiar mixture   of three-parts hot cheek H orror to one of itchy palms,        last experienc...

Ever since the incident with the ginger boyfriend and the ginger- bread men, I never baked a thing ‘til this ...

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