We at The Amazing Blog love to experiment in the kitchen. Whether it’s for entertaining dinner party guests or making treats for our loved ones, we’re always trying to improve our repertoire. For those of you who love to cook and bake just as much as we do, we’ve come up with a few exciting new recipe books for you to take a look at!

As the weather warms up, so does our sweet tooth! The Clandestine Cake Club: A Year of Cake by Lynn Hill is the perfect way to experiment with a variety of delicious confections.

The drool-worthy cookbook is organized month-by-month and filled with delectable images of cakes that suit every holiday. It also features seasonal ingredients and recipes served with a little slice of history that reveals stories and traditions about the occasions that inspired them. To give you a little taste of what’s included, the book illustrates recipes for traditional cakes like Toffee Apple Gingerbread and Strawberry Pimm’s, but also includes exotic ones like Yogurt & Pecan cake as well as Canadian Maple Syrup & Bacon cake.

Fire up your oven and start practicing for the holidays with “A Year of Cake” here for £20.

If you’re craving some colourful dishes, we would recommend flipping through NOPI: The Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi and Ramael Scully—a collection of over 120 recipes from Yotam’s celebrated Soho restaurant.

This spectacular cookbook combines Yotam’s Middle Eastern influences with Scully’s Asian background and delivers a truly unique set of original, flavor-packed dishes. If you’re a fan of the restaurant, you’ll love learning the secrets to your favourite courses, and if you’re a cooking enthusiast, you’ll love discovering new recipes to inspire and delight. This book is chock-full of things for every occasion, from simple starters to complex main courses and puddings. As a bonus, the book itself is absolutely beautiful just to display on your shelf. The hard cover has a creamy white texture and the pages are gilded in gold.

Whether you’re looking to impress a dinner party or serve yourself a quick meal, this book is a gem to add to your collection. It’s available here for £28.

Biscuits are the quintessential English snack, so it’s only fitting that we feature a recipe book focused entirely on biscuits. Introducing Bee’s Brilliant Biscuits, a book filled to the brim with original, colourful, and flavourful unique treats for you and your loved ones.

The recipes range from classic shortbread, to cookies you can bake with your kids, to treats for you pooch, and everything in between! It even includes a page of tear-out templates to add to the fun.

You deserve better than to dunk a plain digestive into your tea. With 80 recipes to choose from, Bee’s Brilliant Biscuits has got you covered. Buy it here for £12.08.

Here at The Amazing Blog we love a good cuppa and a slice of cake, and therefore can’t wait for all the festivities of Afternoon Tea Week 2015 to begin.

From the 10th - 16th August the biggest celebration of tea time treats in the world is happening all over the country, although many of the biggest and best events are right here in London.

Among the events is a Historical Afternoon Tea at Dennis Severs’ House with Kerstin Rodgers aka Ms Marmite Lover, one of the country’s most successful bloggers. On Friday 14th August Kerstin will be creating a historical, Georgian themed Afternoon Tea and baking from historic recipes. The event begins at 3pm and you can’t buy your tickets here.

If you’re more into the baking side of creating a great afternoon tea, definitely check out The Bakewell Baking Festival, which takes place from 14-16th August at the Bakewell Showground. The festival boasts an amazing line-up of culinary talent including Stacie Stewart, Edd Kimber, TV’s Fabulous Baker brother Tom Herbert, baked-Alaska-gate Bake off star Iain Watters andBake-off star Howard Middleton. Tickets start from £7 and can be purchased here.

For a truly immersive afternoon tea experience the InterContinental London Park Lane are offering the opportunity to enjoy the limited edition Scents of Summer Afternoon Tea in the company of Executive Chef Ashley Wells and Bespoke Perfumer Nicola Pozzani of Floris London. Here you'll experience how the evocative notes from Floris fragrances; such as freshly cut grass, jasmine, bergamot, citrus, and rose, are skilfully crafted into the sandwiches, scones and cakes, including bite-sized Jasmine tea cakes garnished with edible flowers, bergamot and blackcurrant flower macaroons, Peach Melba mousse, and a grapefruit and almond tart with violet cream. This limited edition afternoon tea costs £45 per person and available until the 27th September 2015. Book your table here.

If chocolate is more of your thing renowned artisan chocolatier paul.a.young fine chocolates has created an Afternoon Tea Week Collection. The delicious afternoon tea favourites that we all love have been reimagined into truffles including scone, jam and clotted cream, treacle tart and Pimms! To get your hands on some of these moreish treats head on down to your nearest paul.a.young shop.