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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Raspberry loaf cake

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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Plum and frangipane ensaïmada

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 butterfly cakes

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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Tarta de Santiago (Spanish almond cake)

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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Toffee popcorn fudge cake

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 drizzle cake

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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Tottenham cake

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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Bara brith

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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Staffordshire oatcakes

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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Exploding Bakery’s giant ‘Hobnob’ bignob biscuit

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 jam slice

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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Far breton (French custard cake)

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 and pistachio millionaires’ shortbread

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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Baked bean tin soda bread

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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Spiced brown butter and pineapple blondies

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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Flatbread dough

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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