Baking Made Easy - Season 1

First aired: 1/10/2011 6 episodes

Episodes

1. So Easy

Aired: 1/10/2011

Recipes created by Lorraine this week include parmesan and poppy seed lollipops, blueberry and lemon millefeuille and shortcrust pastry.

2. Speed Baking

Aired: 1/17/2011

Recipes created by Lorraine this week include canapés, mini sausage rolls and sundried tomato and rosemary palmiers.

3. Modern Classics

Aired: 1/24/2011

This week an old favourite gets a makeover, and strawberry and mascarpone Swiss roll is more delicious than ever before. Lorraine reveals her chef's tips for food presentation, and she's got an easy recipe for a true modern classic, focaccia. Even baked pasta gets the Lorraine treatment, with glam mac and cheese offering the perfect combination of oven comfort and pure indulgence. Lorraine has an easy recipe for perfect meringue every time and it forms the base for an old-school pavlova. But there's a twist - spiced blackberry, pear and apple pavlova is Lorraine's modern take on that all-time favourite dessert.

4. Very Entertaining

Aired: 1/31/2011

Lorraine Pascale shares her top three flavour enhancers tonight, and takes us through her "baker's dozen" - a rundown of her most indispensable baking tools. She also makes another trip to her former home city, Paris, where she explores the history of the crème brûlée before tempting us with her own take on the classic dessert, made with mascarpone and ginger.

5. Amazing

Aired: 2/7/2011

Lorraine Pascale focuses on dishes that are visually stunning but easy to cook. She gives a French favourite a savoury twist by making tomato and basil tarte Tatin, and offers tips on preparing home-made puff pastry. She also shares a recipe for chorizo and thyme fougasse, suggests ways to incorporate honeycomb into desserts, and tackles a three-tier cake.

6. Weekender

Aired: 2/14/2011

Lorraine Pascale focuses on recipes for a relaxing weekend in the kitchen, beginning with pumpkin and rosemary muffins. She demonstrates how to make macaroons, visits her local Italian deli to get ingredients for mini tiramisu cakes, and shares tips on creating the perfect pizza. Last in the series.