Part work, Baked and Delicious magazine has been a big hit on Facebook with 14,000 people who “like” it, several thousand of whom declared their love before copies were on sale.
The first issue costs 99p, the second £2.99 and subsequent issues are £4.99. It claims to be “packed with international classics and traditional favourites” and that it “brings the very best of baking to today’s cooks.” As a further sweetener, each issue comes with a piece of colourful silicone bakeware. Subscribers also get “free” gifts such as electronic kitchen scales, cake tins, cake slices and the all important binder.
I’ve been amazed how many people have raved about this magazine in other blog reviews, to the point I’m wondering if they haven’t given it much thought or feel uncomfortable calling it a dud.
My Baked and Delicious Magazine REVIEW
We call spades spades here. My impression after reviewing issue one of Baked and Delicious was that it is:
- Flimsy at fewer than 30 pages per issue
- Cheap with pound shop quality bakeware gifts
- Overpriced for such a short magazine even bearing in mind the “free” gift
- Dated with 1980s yellow tinged photography
- Dreary with graphics that look like they were created in MS Word
- Unsophisticated with uninspiring food styling
- Badly edited with inconsistent layout and typos
On the plus side, the Gateaux St Honore recipe was the most useful but you’d do better to spend your cash on some generic baking books instead of doggedly committing to this week after week. For around £7.99 you can easily pick up little hardback baking books in the supermarket and discount book stores. You can add to your bakeware collection as necessary.
(For a highly informative post on the pros and cons of silicone bakeware, check out my friend Ozoz Kitchen Butterfly’s excellent post here)
Baked and Delicious has been out a while now but new subscribers get to buy back copies. Sixty issues are planned. If you want to back out, I’m informed you can cancel subscriptions at any time.
I have been a subscriber from the beginning, they have delivered quality magazines (no typos etc) also quality thick, durable and aesthetically pleasing bakeware, moulds, decorator tools & kitchen utensils. If I have ever had an queries I have called them, max 3 min on hold and any queries resolved on the spot. I praise this magazine to novices, if a recipe requires something in particular to make it they give it or have already given it to you, it’s not for snobby self proclaimed great home cooks, but it’s great to learn with, to explore new recipes and techniques and I will surely pass mine down too. To a daughter who wants or needs to learn how to cook invaluable. To all of those who judge of 1st editions only, too bad for you that you jumped to negative conclusions about what this series was all about & is likely to deliver. You lucked out, people so quick to judge often miss out on many opportunities in life.
Glad to hear it’s improved. Certainly their customer services sound like they’ve improved massively. And I never proclaim myself to be great – if you’d read anything other than one single post on my site this would be apparent. Looks like you’re just as guilty as judging something by a “first edition”?
Goodness what a bitter reaction by someone who clearly has never looked beyond this page of Sarah’s blog to make such pronouncements. And ‘Duchess’ perhaps sons might like to cook too, though perhaps not in your lofty world…
i am not appy miss no 91 to miss no92 no 93 n0 94 book i look miss shop i want two each no 91 long time . please you post me ask i payment orderpost .
Well they now say 130 issues, O.K. I’ll get them all because they are easy to use and I can. stow them in my pantry easier than metal pans, yes I still have my metal pans but I use these silicone ones more. The books are a bit bulky, I think I might scan them onto a cd-rom when the collection is finished.