These peanut butter cookies from Bake Off winner Edd Kimber are the best ones ever

And some bakery-style blueberry muffins perfect for lunchboxes

Chocolate peanut butter cookies from Small Batch Bakes by Edd Kimber (Kyle Books, £18.99) Picture: Edd Kimber. .

As the cost of living crisis deepens, you might think something like baking would be the first to go from our budgets – but Edd Kimber isn’t so sure.

Of course, he would say that – he is a professional baker, after all – but he’s developed a logical theory for it.