Here in one fabulous collection are 2000 recipes for every kind of sweet treat you could ever need: from family cakes and teatime cookies to tempting puddings, sumptuous dinner party desserts and chocolate gifts, you are sure to find the perfect recipe in this comprehensive boxed set of four cookbooks. From Chelsea buns and chocolate drops to treacle tart and coffee cake, 500 Cakes & Bakes is guaranteed to inspire every cook with its sensational selection of recipes. There are simple lunchbox snacks like oaty coconut biscuits as well as party and weekend treats such as festive apple pie, caramel meringues or chocolate cheesecake. Enjoy light-as-air meringues, black forest gateau and chocolate chiffon pie... There is even a chapter on low-fat baking so everyone can indulge! 500 Cookies, Biscuits & Bakes is a delicious and mouthwatering selection of the world's best-loved recipes - try Easter biscuits, Fourth of July blueberry softbakes, salted peanut cookies, brandy snaps, Maryland chocolate chip cookies, pink sugared hearts, chocolate walnut bars, Yorkshire fat fascals, cheddar pennies and many more. Traditional recipes for flapjacks, macaroons and shortbread sit happily alongside contemporary creations such as ice cream sandwiches, toffee apple and oat crunchies, and tiramisu cookies. 500 Classic Chocolate Recipes is a superlative range of irresistible treats encompassing chocolate in all its forms: melted, tempered, piped, drizzled, marbled, grated, curled and even sculpted, with an amazing wealth of ideas for using chocolate in cakes, pies, pastries, muffins, hot and cold desserts, drinks, fudges, candies and frostings. Try luxury chocolate mousse, chocolate amaretto maquise, chocolate pavlova with chocolate curls and fruits, double chocolate-dipped fruit and chocolate fudge triangles... Desserts are the ultimate culinary treat, whether rustling up a lemon meringue pie or apple crumble for the family or treating guests to Italian tiramisu or a brandy-soaked borracho cake from Spain. This delectable collection of 500 recipes offers something for each season, from citrus sorbet for a hot summer's day to a hot fruit pudding or syrup sponge for winter. Illustrated throughout with 2000 glorious colour photographs, packed full of tips and advice, and with nutritional notes for every recipe, this is the ultimate book collection for every home cook.