This little is a great first step onto the road to recovery. Perhaps your nervous-baker condition began following the trauma of a sinkhole appearing in your chocolate cake or a crack the size of the San Andreas Fault running across your cheesecake, but no matter how you got here, the important thing to remember is you can make it back.
Mulberry tea cake Source: Michelle Crawford
The classic melt-and-mix cake is the baking equivalent of painting by numbers. It's easy to grasp the concepts here, you have your binding agents and your raising agents and their powers combined in this result in a soft, sweet cake with a lovely moist crumb.
Melt and mix chocolate coconut cake Source: Alan Benson
It's time to advance in the program and make a sugar syrup. Of course, you could enjoy this without the syrup, but this three-ingredient elixir is so simple even the most disturbed of the baking-challenged can pull it off.
Flourless orange, hazelnut and poppy seed loaf Source: Chris Chen
If the answer is yes, then you can have this and eat it, too. There is not much to say other than this cake will become a favourite and is perfect with that tea or coffee cup! Sweet and savoury work so well together in this Scandi-style slice that is all kinds of creamy and will make your cake look like a pro.
Source: Simon Bajada
If you've suffered the torture of cracked meringue in the past, this recipe may have your heart pounding just a little bit faster. It's time to take back the whites and whip up this easy . As a Jewish Passover treat, there's no need to worry about anything rising here, just be sure to leave it to cool down in the oven.
Flourless almond and chocolate walnut torte Source: Brett Stevens
So-named because it is supposedly impossible to mess up, this is going to become a firm favourite for the angst-ridden baker. But, a word of advice, just because it's impossible to fail, one shouldn't tempt fate, so follow the recipe.
Impossible coconut and passionfruit pie Source: Alan Benson
Remember that with every failed cooking endeavour comes a lesson we'll (hopefully) never forget. So channel the properties of a sponge and absorb all that new-found knowledge, just like this is going to soak up that .
Castella cake Source: Alan Benson
Congratulations, you've made it to the final step in our eight-cake program to baking confidence. For this last recipe, we're building up to another level. All dressed up with pretty icing and a jammy centre, this may look impressive but it's still very down-to-earth. So grab that icing spatula, you're ready.
Summer fruits Madeira cake
