Mix three cups of friendship, a spoonful of cringey Mum and a sprinkle of first love – and what do you have? A warm, touching and cosy novel, perfect to satisfy your cooking cravings during the next series of The Great British Bake Off!
The winner of the 2015 Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition, The Secret Cooking Club is the first novel by author Laurel Remington. Contemporary, original and with a sprinkling of humour, The Secret Cooking Club follows twelve- year-old Scarlett as she discovers the secret ingredient to happiness – through cooking!
Shy Scarlett is the star and victim of her mum’s popular lifestyle blog – the butt of school jokes, she’s eager to stay firmly out of the spotlight. But one evening, she finds a gorgeous kitchen in the house next door, left empty by an elderly neighbour in hospital. As Scarlett bakes, she starts to transform her life, discovering new friends and forming the Secret Cooking Club. But can she find the secret ingredients – to cake, family and friendship?
Tying in with the 2016 series of The Great British Bake Off (due to start next week), The Secret Cooking Club is the perfect read for all junior bakers! A gorgeously written novel with tonnes of heart, this is a novel which will make even the most inexperienced cook reach for the oven gloves.
The Secret Cooking Club by Laurel Remington is published by Chicken House, August 2016, priced £6.99. It is aimed at young readers aged 10+.
Win a copy of The Secret Cooking Club
I have teamed up with Chicken House today to offer one reader of the gingerbread house the chance to win a copy of The Secret Cooking Club by Laurel Remington. To be in with a chance of winning this prize simply answer the question and leave a comment on this post via the Rafflecopter widget below. The giveaway ends on 4th September and the winner’s name will appear on this post.
I like making tablet (sugar, condensed milk, butter & milk) it’s so sugary & lovely but oh so bad for teeth & the waistline!
Chocolate Brownies
Book looks great! Would love to win !! Thanks for running the competition
Chocolate Chip Cookies 🙂
lemon courgette cake x
pastry apple pie with clotted cream
Chocolate brownies
Lemon drizzle cake
Banana bread! Yum!!!
i like making jam tarts
cannot go wrong with a good Victoria sponge
A great apple pie – to be eaten with double cream or ice cream
Lemon drizzle cake
i love chocolate cake!
Jam tarts are my favourite to bake
Lemon drizzle cake
White chocolate chip brownies 🙂
Red Velvet cake xx
chocolate chip cookies.
Jam tarts – especially love making ( and eating) them with my grandkids
maltesers cupcakes
Chocolate brownies with cookie dough
Date and Walnut Cake.
chocolate fairy cakes 🙂
Chocloate mousse cake
chocolate cookies :-))
It has to be Black Forest Gateau for me. Love the combination of chocolate and cherries x
we love to make fairy cakes, my toddlers love decorating them 🙂
Fairy cakes
Victoria Sandwich.
Flapjack and coffee and walnut cake😀👍🏻
Banana bread with my little boy 😀
Some lovely flapjacks
Brownies yum!!
Banana bread, I could eat it all day!
Lemon drizzle cake
millionaire shortbread
I love chocolate muffins.
Chocolate brownies
Cheese or fruit scones
Chocolate fudge cake.
It has to be my cherry and amaretto brownies!
CHOCOLATE BROWNIES
I’m known as the ‘Cookie Monster’ in my house because of my love of cookies. I hope we see some on the Great British Bake Off this time around. x
New York Cheesecake
Chocolate roll
chocolate chip cookies
I love to make (and eat!) flapjacks.
banana fritters
chocolate brownies 🙂
Coffee Cake is my absolute fave
Lemon Drizzle Cake
I love to bake and eat Carrot Cake
i love flapjacks
This has to be cupcakes!!
Red Velvet Cupcakes
orange drizzle cake
Hmm, probably stollen or fudge. Something nice to have with coffee!
banoffee pie
Victoria sponge sandwich The whole family loves it!
I would love to win this book, it sounds fabulous. I’d bake a salted caramel chocolate cake, triple layered with an Italian meringue frosting.
Oh my goodness, that sounds amazing!
I love a good old chocolate cake yum
I’m partial to a scone with jam and cream
I love making chocolate brownies x
Victotia sandwich with cream and fruit on top
bakewell tart! yummy!
YUM YUM Love making chocolate fudge cake 🙂
Chocolate Chip Cookies
chocolate shortbread
Chocolatee Fudge Cake 🙂
A simple fresh cream and strawberry jam Victoria sponge
These comments are making me hungry! I love to make flapjacks or fruit scones 🙂
Carrot Cake
A nice Carrot and Courgette Cake
I love making and eating flapjack 🙂 So delicious!
I love Chocolate Cake 😀
Victoria sandwich is my favourite to bake xxx
Chocolate Brownies 🙂
I love flapjacks, the gooier the better
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate Cake
lemon drizzle cake
lemon meringue pie
Always a Banoffee Pie. Taste Sensation!
Chocolate cake
Apple cake – delicious
the boys have me making cupcakes all the time
Vanilla cupcakes 🙂
Flapjacks, chose them as my treat for my 18th birthday
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Banana bread with Nutella yummy!
carrot cake
my lovely apple and blackberry pie with custard
Peanut Butter cookies and apple/blackberry crumble (with our own apples and blackberries)
Lemon drizzle cake z
Chocolate brownies😃 So yummy when homemade!
Millionaire shortbread
chocolate brownie
My favourite treat to bake has to be flapjacks as they taste amazing
I love baking Devil’s Food Cake, but not as much as I love eating it!
Love Cheesecakes
I love baking some chocolate chip cookies, yum!
nutella cheesecake
brownies
Chocolate brownies!
FlapJack
White chocolate cheesecake 🙂
chocolate cake!