First of all, regarding western cakes, I personally recommend my teacher Xiao Yan.
Teacher Xiao Yan is a pastry master. The most important thing is that she is very kind to novices, so you won't feel that you can't get started at all. The cake classroom, the dessert classroom, the classic cake of hurricane cake and the secret of delicious snacks can make you make delicious and eye-catching cakes, which are super suitable for friends and boyfriends.
Secondly, regarding Chinese food and Chinese cakes, it is not recommended to refer to books and recipes.
If you look closely, you can find that there are fewer and fewer good recipes for Chinese food on the market, unless you want to cook that kind of endangered food (laughs), so I seriously recommend an App to the kitchen.
I prefer to think that the kitchen is a constantly updated textbook. As we know, the taste of a dish may be very different between north and south, and the cooking is also very different. The kitchen will recommend you the best and most popular recipes, and you can try them according to your own preferences.
By the way, you can find everything from French dinners and charming cakes to cooking skills and street snacks in the kitchen. I even learned to make sugar-coated cookies and all kinds of lovely cookies here.
In fact, I am a lazy guy and don't like sharing. I don't want to write recipes every time. Please reply in the comments after reading more, but even so, I have cooked 169 dishes here (well, it's actually far more than that).
So, you can learn something in the community, and at the same time, precipitate it and share it with others. This is also an essential environmental factor for learning delicious food, which is easier than learning books by yourself!