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 did subscribe to the mag. without reading any reviews and have found the magazine quite fun, until recently. I get these magazines as a treat from my boyfriend. Recently however there has been a problem, whereby we have paid for them and they have not been delivered. My free gifts have not arrived and when I opted for the ‘special edition’ mag. that hasnt arrived either. Upon emailing them (4 times) I have had no reply and my boyfriend is out of pocket. I can’t believe that I have been soo stupid as to not review first. I normally do the research.
sometimes things get lost in the mail. they have a telephone service why not just call them rather then sending emails if you are not getting a response… sorry common sense
i had the same issue as you. missing issues, i called them up they apologised and sent some more. didn’t take long to arrive
i have purchased magazine from day one, but i am still waiting for free gift of scales. how much longer will i have to wait
my grandfather buys them for me! but i will look and see what is coming in the next issue! the recipes are terrible with few useful ones but buying the magazine is cheaper than just buying the bakeware. so im going to stick with it!
thats exactly why i buy it! I don’t find the silicone to be flimsy or seem cheap from the magazine and there is the odd recipe that i will see and think “oh i’ll give that a try” theres an almond tart in one of the earlier ones and its soo delicious my whole family love it no exaggeration i get requests to make it which is … actually a pain some times haha.
but ye i have limited kitchen space so they get crammed into a box and seem to retain their shape.