"Baking takes time and careful preparation, but every minute is enjoyable. The delicious results you'll achieve with these recipes and tips will be well worth the effort."

Follow twelve amateur bakers as they don aprons and head for the tent in the British countryside, hoping to be named Britain's best. Judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood create challenges to test their baking prowess, creativity, and skill. Joined by hosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, they search for the best all-around baker among the contestants.

Sweet elegance: 16 cookie-decorating techniques: Make your cookies a delicacy of design, texture, and color with decorator Amber Spiegel! From achieving perfect royal icing consistency to creating rose accents, make enticing treats through new and fun decorating techniques. Cookie decorating season by season: Decorate adorable cookie collections all year long! Master designer Anne Yorks' secrets to color, texture, and different fonts for tasty treats...

Follow the trials and tribulations of passionate amateur bakers whose goal is to be named the U.K.'s best. Each week, the bakers tackle a different skill, the difficulty of which increases as the competition unfolds, judged by Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.

British amateur bakers compete in a series of weekly baking challenges, each episode introducing a new technical skill and a challenge in each of three categories: Sigature Bake, to test creative flair and basic baking ability; Technical Bake, in which contestants are given basic recipes consisting of an ingredients list and minimal instruction; and Showstopper Bake, designed to display baking virtuosity.

Red Hen finds a recipe for a Simply Splendid Cake and asks her friends the cat, the rat, and the frog to help with the preparations. Bread comes to life: A tell-all tale of the sowing, growing, reaping, threshing, milling, mixing, kneading, shaping, rising, baking and breaking of bread. They all play a part in the craft and the art of the bread-baking show! How do dinosaurs eat their food?: With methods of eating and manners that are probably all...

Matt's passion transforms his bread from bland to extraordinary. When his bread loses its magic, the island locals panic and turn to Annie, Matt's childhood friend and true love for help.