AllanBakes Really Good Cakes: With Tips and Tricks for Successful Baking

Bursting with fresh ideas for no-frills, honestly good cakes ranging from sponge and chiffon cakes to cupcakes, muffins loaf cakes, fruitcakes, chocolate cakes, brownies and cheesecakes, this exciting collection of recipes will provide you with the perfect treat whatever the occasion. A popular culinary coach who has been conducting workshops for many years, Allan provides the necessary detail and steps to guide you through each recipe, ensuring that you will have as much fun cutting into your cake as you will have baking it.

Allan Albert Teoh is a self-taught baker whose hobby of weekend baking flourished into a popular culinary enterprise, AllanBakes. Well known for his delicious cheesecakes, Allan was crowned one of the four Cheesecake Heavenly Kings (2009) in a countrywide contest organised by Lianhe Wanbao. Allan’s wonderful treats have also been recognised further afield at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, where his first book, AllanBakes Really Good Cakes, clinched the Best Desserts Cookbook Award for Singapore in 2011. His second book, AllanBakes Really Good Treats, was named the Best Pastries Book for Singapore in 2013. In 2012, Allan mentored the winner and runner-up of the Junior MasterChef Australia (Season 2) when they visited Singapore to do a cooking demonstration at the Singapore Expo. Subsequently, Allan became a full-time culinary coach and consultant. In 2017, Allan joined Chef’s Secrets Cooking and Baking Resource Centre as a partner. Allan continues to share his love for cooking and baking through the culinary workshops that he conducts, as well as through his cookbooks.