Home baking guides

Real bread, made at home.

Clear, practical digital guides to baking bread in an ordinary kitchen. No professional oven required.

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Three digital eBooks · Nothing is shipped

Two floured hands shaping a round ball of dough on a wooden table

The guides

Start where you are.

Three guides that build on each other. Begin with the one that fits your experience.

  • Cover of The First Loaf

    Guide 01 · Your first bread

    The First Loaf

    A beginner’s guide to simple yeasted bread at home. Four ingredients, a home oven and plain steps from mixing to slicing your first loaf.

    • For complete beginners
    • No special equipment needed
    • Eight chapters, with a first-week baking plan

    Digital eBook €19,95

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  • Cover of The Sourdough Kitchen

    Guide 02 · Sourdough

    The Sourdough Kitchen

    A step-by-step guide to sourdough at home: building a starter, planning the timing around your day and baking your first sourdough loaves.

    • For bakers ready for sourdough
    • Starter, timing and troubleshooting
    • Nine chapters, with sample schedules

    Digital eBook €29,90

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  • Cover of The Home Bakery Year

    Guide 03 · For the whole year

    The Home Bakery Year

    Our most complete guide: everyday breads, enriched doughs and seasonal bakes, organised into a 52-week plan so you always know what to bake next.

    • For bakers who know the basics
    • A 52-week baking plan
    • Nine chapters, with a full worked year

    Digital eBook €39,90

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Why Karsebe

Written for home kitchens.

  1. Sized for your kitchen

    Every method is written for a home oven and everyday equipment from the start, rather than scaled down from a professional bakery.

  2. Step by step

    Plain instructions in the order you will need them, so you always know what to do next — and what to leave alone.

  3. Honest about the hard parts

    What works, what does not, and what to do when a loaf comes out flat. No promises of bakery-perfect bread on day one.

A notebook, a bowl of flour and a wooden spoon on a wooden table

Our approach

Most bread books assume a bakery.

Karsebe starts somewhere smaller: a mixing bowl, a baking tray and the oven you already have.

Our guides break baking down into steps you can follow in the kitchen you already have — what to mix, how the dough should feel, and what to change next time. No special equipment required, and no pretending every loaf will be perfect.

From starter to slice

From a jar of starter to a loaf on the table.

A little practice goes a long way with bread. The guides show you how to get there, one bake at a time.

A glass jar of bubbly sourdough starter beside a floured proofing basket
Sourdough: a lively starter and a simple timetable.
A freshly baked round loaf with one slice cut, cooling on a wire rack
The result: a golden crust and an open crumb.

How it works

Digital guides, simply delivered.

  1. Step 1

    Choose your guide

    Pick the one that matches your experience.

  2. Step 2

    Check out securely

    Payment is handled through Shopify’s checkout.

  3. Step 3

    Receive your eBook

    Your guide is delivered electronically after purchase.

These are digital products. No physical goods are shipped.

Ready when you are

Find your starting point.

Three guides, one clear path — from your first loaf to a full year of baking.

See the three guides