Baking recipes
What do you feel like baking today? Whether you’re in the mood for easy biscuits and muffins, something savoury, or a showstopper cake, you’ll find the recipe in our baking collection.
We’ve rounded up some of our best baking recipes. These tried-and-tested bakes include cookies, scones, traybakes, classic sponges, loaf cakes, pastries, crumbles, tarts and many more.
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Raspberries
Raspberry loaf cake
This raspberry loaf cake is a beautiful thing – easy to make, easier to eat and ready for whatever fruity additions you fancy.
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Plums
Plum and frangipane ensaïmada
Ensaïmada is a much-loved pastry from Mallorca. Learn how to make this pillowy pastry swirl at home with Nicola Lamb's recipe.
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Easy cakes
Easy butterfly cakes
Light-as-air sponge is topped with vanilla buttercream in these almost-too-good-to-eat butterfly cakes. They're great to make with kids.
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Baking recipes
Tarta de Santiago (Spanish almond cake)
Tarta de Santiago is a traditional Spanish almond cake. Learn how to make this easy gluten-free bake with our simple recipe.
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Celebration cakes
Toffee popcorn fudge cake
Celebrating the flavours of toffee popcorn, this showstopper cake has a white chocolate and popcorn ganache and sticky toffee sauce.
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Elderflower
Elderflower drizzle cake
Lemon and elderflower are a match made in heaven, and this easy drizzle cake with fresh elderflowers proves it. The perfect bake for late spring.
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Teatime traybakes
Tottenham cake
Tottenham cake is a simple vanilla traybake topped with pink icing. Learn how to make this nostalgic bake from London with our easy recipe.
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Welsh
Bara brith
Bara brith is a tea-soaked fruit loaf cake from Wales. Learn how to make this traditional Welsh bake with Anna Higham's simple recipe.
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Oats
Staffordshire oatcakes
Learn how to make traditional Staffordshire oatcakes with this easy recipe. Fill the savoury griddle cakes with bacon and melted cheese.
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Giant recipes
Exploding Bakery’s giant ‘Hobnob’ bignob biscuit
The Exploding Bakery's 'bignob' is a homage to the beloved Hobnob. Cut the giant oaty biscuit into triangles and dunk into your cuppa.
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Custard
Custard jam slice
Fancy a proper custard slice with layers of flaky pastry and silky custard? Oliver and Tom of The Exploding Bakery show you how to make it.
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Baking recipes
Far breton (French custard cake)
Far Breton is a beloved pudding from Brittany, made of boozy prunes set in a rich custard. The Exploding Bakery shows you how to make it.
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Rhubarb
Rhubarb and pistachio millionaires’ shortbread
Swap caramel for rhubarb in this light, colourful take on millionaire's shortbread. Sprinkle the chocolate topping with green pistachios.
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Savoury bread
Baked bean tin soda bread
Anna Haugh shares her easy but ingenious recipe for traditional Irish soda bread baked in baked bean tins. Serve spread thickly with butter.
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Baking recipes
Spiced brown butter and pineapple blondies
Looking for a blondie recipe with a twist? Nutty brown butter, warming spices an pineapple take these blondies to sophisticated heights.
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Flatbreads
Flatbread dough
Make perfect flatbreads with our go-to dough recipe. The dough puffs up beautifully and can be cooked in either a regular or pizza oven.
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