Top Baking Books By Indian Bakers: Guide For Home Bakers

Shivesh is a self-taught baker, author of two cookbooks, and a social media influencer. He is a popular Indian food blogger on YouTube and Instagram.

In his first book, Bake with Shivesh, he shares how to style food in your kitchen. He offers simple styling tips that require tools you already own. This book helps you learn his favorite techniques and what works for different social media platforms. This book is for people who want to improve the presentation of their food, blog, or business. It will help you make your food look as good as it tastes.

Desserts For Every Mood book is a collection of 100 amazing desserts. It consists of both eggless and egg recipes. In this book, Shivesh shares a range of recipes of cakes, cookies, cupcakes and muffins, frostings and fillings, tarts, and pies. Suppose you are a beginner in baking, no worries because this book is one of the best baking books for beginners in India. It also consists of a conversion table at the start, so you don't mess up with the measurements.

Nita Mehta is an Indian celebrity chef, author, restaurateur, and media personality, known for her cookbooks, cooking classes, and as a celebrity judge on cooking-based television shows. She has been called a "Cooking Expert" and "Nutrition Expert" in the media. She has authored more than 400 cookbooks. In 1999, she won the Best Asian Cookbook Award for her book- Flavours of Indian Cooking at the World Cookbook Fair in Paris.

Cakes And Cookies is a book that contains a lot of recipes for beginners to pros ranging from cakes for simple tea party cakes to grand birthday ones. This book covers the baking fundamentals and is perfect for beginners. The recipes in this book come with step-by-step instructions explained in detail, along with all the ingredients needed to get the perfect result. The instructions in this book are easily given, even for the most complex recipes, to help bakers bake their cakes and cookies in the comfort of their homes quickly, and this makes it one of the top baking books for beginners.

Sanjeev Kapoor is a famous Indian celebrity chef, entrepreneur, and television personality. He has hosted the popular TV show Khana Khazana, the longest-running show of its kind in Asia. He is also the first chef to own a 24X7 food and lifestyle channel, Food Food, launched in January 2011.

Cakes And Bakes is a recipe book authored by India's leading chef, Sanjeev Kapoor. Through this book, bakers can enhance their baking skills by following his simple recipes. This book is one of the best baking books for beginners as all the recipes mentioned in this book are organized, with easy-to-follow step-wise instructions. According to him, the art of baking is nothing more than a simple culinary exercise, which requires four main ingredients - precision, process, patience, and passion. 

Deeba Rajpal, a home baker for over 20 years, has been a food stylist and photographer. She is also the founder of Passionate about Baking, one of the most popular blogs in India.

Vinesh Johny is the co-founder of the Lavonne Academy of Baking Science and Pastry Arts. He appeared on CNN's 2017 "20 Under 40" list and Forbes 2016 "30 Under 30 Asia" list.

Andres Lara is a globally renowned pastry chef and consultant. He has worked in Michelin-starred restaurants in many countries. He is now the Cacao Barry regional Chef in the Asia Pacific.