The Elements of Baking: Making any Recipe Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Egg-Free or Vegan

IACP AWARD WINNER • JAMES BEARD AWARD FINALIST • Winner of The Guild of Food Writers Award 2025 • Shortlisted for Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink Awards 2025

The Elements of Baking is the enthusiastically nerdy guide to making any recipe gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, vegan or even gluten-free vegan. Armed with a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry, Katarina Cermelj lays out the science behind baking and the ingredients that make it work, so you can easily adapt your baking to your diet and lifestyle, and still make sure it tastes spectacular.

With an abundance of mouth-watering recipes together with actual quantitative rules that you can use to convert any recipe into whatever version you fancy, The Elements of Baking will transform the way you think about ingredients. It will be a constant companion in the kitchen and the book you refer to every time you want to bake.