Cakes comes with a beautiful fabric cover and offers a dizzying range of recipes for every possible occasion.The perfection of a simple sponge will delight you, while cheesecakes are arrayed in all their creamy glory, and the full gamut of chocolate cakes are bound to tempt. Most of the recipes use a lot of store-cupboard ingredients so that it's easy to make something if you have a cake craving mid-afternoon. The photography theme is in keeping with the retro tastes but without seeming dated, just very familiar. The instructions throughout are thorough and really easy to follow. So tie up your apron and take out the mixing bowls. Right now it?s just you, a recipe and the marvellous cake to come.