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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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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Baking recipes
Toasted chai teacakes
Toasted teacakes are a classic teatime treat, so why not infuse them with spiced chai tea? Double the tea equals double the fun.
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Cupcakes
Chai cupcakes
Starting with a chai-infused milk, these cupcakes have a tender crumb and are richly spiced with cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and black tea.
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Blood orange recipes
Blood orange loaf cake
This loaf cake is a celebration of all things blood orange. There’s blood orange blended into the batter, icing and candied slices on top.
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Peanut butter
Air-fryer muffins with peanut butter and blueberries
When it comes to your air fryer, don’t neglect sweet options like these fluffy peanut butter and blueberry muffins. Bake for a lazy brunch.
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Afternoon tea
Garden cake
Bring the outdoors in with this pretty 'garden' cake. Cover sponges with a generous layer of buttercream, then festoon with edible flowers.
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Kim-Joy’s bubble-tea frog cake
Calling all bubble tea fans! Kim Joy's easy cake is infused with black tea, layered with tea buttercream and topped with brown-sugar boba.
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Meringue
Kim-Joy’s stem ginger and salted-caramel meringue creature cake
Kim-Joy's stem ginger cake is packed full of ginger flavour, plus thick layers of cream cheese frosting and thick salted caramel. What a joy!
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Lemon cakes
Kim-Joy’s lemon drizzle cake
Kim-Joy's fun lemon drizzle cake is super moist and goes bold on the citrus flavour – with lemon zest, lemon syrup AND a lemon glaze.
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Cinnamon
Kim-Joy’s cinnamon rolls with escapee snail
Kim-Joy's homemade cinnamon rolls are the softest, fluffiest buns you'll ever try. Add a cute marshmallow snail for the ultimate cosy bake.
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