Afternoon tea recipes
Whether you’re having friends round for afternoon tea or want to bring a treat in for your office tea-break, we have a recipe for you.
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Afternoon tea recipes
Classic canelés
Traditional French canelés are golden-brown with a crisp, shiny exterior and soft, custardy centre. Use Philippe...

Afternoon tea recipes
Rosé and raspberry financiers
Small, but mighty. This delicate almond cake recipe is studded with rosé wine macerated raspberries.

Teatime traybake recipes
Strawberry and coconut flapjacks
A basic flapjack recipe is given a fruity, summery twist with the addition of sweet,...

Scone recipes
The ultimate cheese scones
Debbie Major has perfected the cheese scone – light, fluffy and topped with a crisp...

Afternoon tea recipes
Gill Meller’s brown butter and poppy seed shortbread...
Gill Meller’s easy shortbread biscuits are the perfect end to a meal. Made with browned...

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

Afternoon tea recipes
Custard doughnuts
Doughnuts from the Bread Ahead bakery are famous in the delicious. office. Soft, pillowy and...

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

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

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

Make-ahead summer dessert recipes
Nectarine rose tart
Gorgeous to look at and even better to eat – this beautiful nectarine tart recipe...

Afternoon tea recipes
Summer cupcakes to flavour three ways
These summery cupcakes can be flavoured three ways: blueberry, cherry ripple or lemon and earl...

Make-ahead summer dessert recipes
Blueberry and polenta shortcake
Inspired by her best friend’s mum, Debbie Major shares her recipe for this summery and...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sticky almond and date shortbread
John Whaite’s recipe of crisp, crumbly shortbread is topped with a sticky almond and date...

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

Afternoon tea recipes
Hazelnut meringue cake
This showstopper cake recipe is made with layers of hazelnut meringue and sherry chocolate cream...

Custard tart
This classic custard tart is based on Marcus Wareing’s famous recipe. The texture is the...

Afternoon tea recipes
Lemon and pistachio battenberg
This battenberg cake recipe has a beautiful hit of lemon to cut through the sweetness.
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