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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Classic canelés
Traditional French canelés are golden-brown with a crisp, shiny exterior and soft, custardy centre. Use Philippe...
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Rosé and raspberry financiers
Small, but mighty. This delicate almond cake recipe is studded with rosé wine macerated raspberries.
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Teatime traybake recipes
Strawberry and coconut flapjacks
A basic flapjack recipe is given a fruity, summery twist with the addition of sweet,...
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Scone recipes
The ultimate cheese scones
Debbie Major has perfected the cheese scone – light, fluffy and topped with a crisp...
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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...
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Mini dessert recipes
Mini doughnut muffins
Mini doughnut muffins are Martha Collison’s quick solution to a relentless doughnut craving. Jammy, bite-sized...
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Custard doughnuts
Doughnuts from the Bread Ahead bakery are famous in the delicious. office. Soft, pillowy and...
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Giant Jaffa cake
Teatime will be great with our giant Jaffa cake recipe. With a soft sponge base,...
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Biscuit recipes
Nigella Lawson’s chocolate biscuits
Nigella Lawson calls these simple chocolate biscuits ‘Granny Boyd’s biscuits’ after her editor’s, Eugenie Boyd,...
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Chocolate cake recipes
Flourless chocolate cake
Crunchy on the outside and gooey on the inside, Simmone Logue’s flourless (gluten-free) chocolate cake...
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Make-ahead summer dessert recipes
Nectarine rose tart
Gorgeous to look at and even better to eat – this beautiful nectarine tart recipe...
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Summer cupcakes to flavour three ways
These summery cupcakes can be flavoured three ways: blueberry, cherry ripple or lemon and earl...
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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...
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Scone recipes
Perfect scones
A perfect scone is a beautiful thing; light, not too sweet and topped – just...
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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...
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Afternoon tea recipes
Jammy doughnuts
You can fill these homemade doughnuts with Nutella, jam, custard – whatever you’d like. The...
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Jam recipes
Jam doughnuts
Who can resist a warm, pillowy, sugar-coated jam doughnut? Our foolproof recipe will have you...
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Carrot cake recipes
Carrot and walnut cake
Ciara Davis’s lusciously moist carrot and walnut cake is packed with sultanas and desiccated coconut...
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Marmalade and coconut bakewell tart
Debbie Major swaps the jam and almond sponge layers with marmalade and coconut creating a...
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Sticky almond and date shortbread
John Whaite’s recipe of crisp, crumbly shortbread is topped with a sticky almond and date...
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Afternoon tea recipes
Chocolate orange tea loaf
The inspiration for this chocolate and orange tea loaf recipe comes from the jaffa cake...
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Hazelnut meringue cake
This showstopper cake recipe is made with layers of hazelnut meringue and sherry chocolate cream...
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Custard tart
This classic custard tart is based on Marcus Wareing’s famous recipe. The texture is the...
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Lemon and pistachio battenberg
This battenberg cake recipe has a beautiful hit of lemon to cut through the sweetness.
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