What would you like to bake today?

Pick the kind, then the recipe by its name.

Cakes

Choose by shape, batter or flavour, in any order. Each one only offers what the others leave.

What type of cake?

What batter?

What should it taste of?

Four ways in. What each can do for is written on it — they are not equally supplied, and the thin ones say so rather than pretending.

Find a recipe

Invent a recipe

Built from the answers you already gave. Every quantity is a median measured from real recipes multiplied by the scale the tin implies — no model is involved at any point, and the number of recipes behind each figure is printed underneath.

Find a maker

Take it as a course

Eleven open textbooks, read end to end. What came out of them is procedure and vocabulary — not yet filed by what you are baking, which is the next piece of work and not a thing to pretend about.