Afternoon tea recipes

Ravinder Bhogal’s banoffee éclairs combine light choux pastry, a rich sweet and salty caramel and...

Homemade choux pastry eclairs are filled with a sweet chestnut purée and drizzled with a...

Traditional French canelés are golden-brown with a crisp, shiny exterior and soft, custardy centre. Use Philippe...

Small, but mighty. This delicate almond cake recipe is studded with rosé wine macerated raspberries.

A basic flapjack recipe is given a fruity, summery twist with the addition of sweet,...

When the worlds of banoffee pie and millionaire’s shortbread collide… You get this indulgent traybake...

This might just be the best cheese scones recipe ever. Debbie Major’s light and fluffy...

Gill Meller’s easy shortbread biscuits are the perfect end to a meal. Made with browned...

Mini doughnut muffins are Martha Collison’s quick solution to a relentless doughnut craving. Jammy, bite-sized...

Doughnuts from the Bread Ahead bakery are famous in the delicious. office. Soft, pillowy and...

Teatime will be great with our giant Jaffa cake recipe. With a soft sponge base,...

Nigella Lawson calls these simple chocolate biscuits ‘Granny Boyd’s biscuits’ after her editor’s, Eugenie Boyd,...

Crunchy on the outside and gooey on the inside, Simmone Logue’s flourless (gluten-free) chocolate cake...

Gorgeous to look at and even better to eat – this beautiful nectarine tart recipe...

These summery cupcakes can be flavoured three ways: blueberry, cherry ripple or lemon and earl...

Inspired by her best friend’s mum, Debbie Major shares her recipe for this summery and...

A perfect scone is a beautiful thing; light, not too sweet and topped – just...

Our pop cakes recipe is inspired by Enid Blyton‘s The Faraway Tree – the sweet...

These beautiful cherry madeleines, served with a hot toffee sauce, are best eaten oven-warm with afternoon...

You can fill these homemade doughnuts with Nutella, jam, custard – whatever you’d like. The...

Who can resist a warm, pillowy, sugar-coated jam doughnut? Our foolproof recipe will have you...

Ciara Davis’s lusciously moist carrot and walnut cake is packed with sultanas and desiccated coconut...

The inspiration for this chocolate and orange tea loaf recipe comes from the jaffa cake...

Debbie Major swaps the jam and almond sponge layers with marmalade and coconut creating a...