Ex-Great British Bake Off judge Mary Berry is launching ready-made cakes despite years promoting home cooking
Mary's new range of ready-made cakes are aimed at people who want to eat 'without having to set foot in the kitchen'
BAKING queen Mary Berry is launching ready-made cakes despite years promoting home cooking.
Her range is aimed at people who want to eat “without having to set foot in the kitchen”.
The cakes will contain emulsifiers and preservatives.
The ex-Bake Off judge, 82, has previously spoke of her passion for home-made “as you know exactly what has gone into them — no oxidants or emulsifiers, no e-numbers or additives of any sort”.
Her Finsbury Food Group cakes are based on some of her original recipes.
Flavours include lemon drizzle, chocolate, carrot and banana fudge.
She said: “I am extremely proud of every single one.
“Each cake is a faithful representation of some of my favourite recipes, and they taste fantastic.
“I hope people enjoy eating them as much as we have enjoyed creating them.”
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Her original chocolate cake recipe lists a handful of ingredients.
But her ready-made Indulgent Chocolate Cake ingredients list is three times the length, and includes glycerol, soya lecithin, diglycerides of fatty acids and potassium sorbate.
The lemon drizzle cake, which has just six ingredients in its original form, has 18 in the preprepared version.
All the cakes have a shelf life of over two weeks. Finsbury Food Group can turn out 18 cakes a minute on its production line.
A spokesman for the firm said the range “gives cake lovers the chance to eat without having to set foot in the kitchen”.
This autumn Mary launches BBC’s rival to the new-look Great British Bake Off on Channel 4.
She will present BBC’s Secrets From Britain’s Great Houses.
And she is bringing out a book on “home happiness”, teaching fans how to clean loos and polish silverware.