Birthday cake recipes
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Make-ahead dessert recipes
Toffee ice-cream cake
Can’t choose between ice cream or cake? Our easy toffee ice cream cake, with some clever shop-bought shortcuts, means you...
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Make-ahead dessert recipes
Easy flourless chocolate cake
A crisp outside and gloriously fudgy centre make this easy flourless chocolate cake the best of dinner party desserts. Make...
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Celebration cake recipes
Sticky toffee pudding cake
Martha Collinson’s sticky toffee pudding cake has all the flavours of the classic pud. Drizzle toffee sauce over the buttercream...
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Frozen dessert recipes
Frozen lemon and blueberry mousse cake
This blueberry mousse cake is a show-stopper – we’ve layered lemon sponge with sweet-tart lemon curd mousse, blueberries and white...
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Chocolate cake recipes
Secret-ingredient chocolate bundt cake
And the secret-ingredient is…mashed potato! That’s right! Victoria Glass, author of Too Good to Waste, gives mash a makeover in...
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Celebration cake recipes
White forest gateau
Three layers of sponge are sandwiched together with white chocolate and kirsch cherries to make a decadent white forest gateau...
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Biscuit recipes
Ginger and honey biscuit cake with choc-orange icing
For a truly show-stopping dessert, try this Russian-inspired cake made from layered honey and orange biscuits, which have softened after...
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Afternoon tea recipes
Giant Jaffa cake
Here’s a fun cake to serve at afternoon tea: a giant Jaffa cake complete with soft sponge base, orange jelly...
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February seasonal recipes
Eric Lanlard’s clementine and pomegranate cake (gluten-free)
Eric Lanlard’s gluten-free clementine cake is made with ground almonds and steeped in syrup for a seriously moist texture. Top...
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Easy cake recipes
Coconut and lime angel cake
Coconut and lime represent the flavours of summer in this easy baking recipe. Angel cake is a light and airy...
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Favourite chocolate recipes
Daim bar layer cake
A Daim bar cake layered with carnation caramel toffee and doused in chocolate ganache… it’s a Daim good recipe. We’ve...
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Elderflower recipes
Elderflower, lemon and cherry cream flourless cake
A flourless cake with elderflower cordial (or you can use liqueur), lemon and cherry cream is a dream for gluten-free...
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White chocolate recipes
Chetna Makan’s pistachio, cardamom and white chocolate cake
Chetna Makan combines the flavours of pistachio, cardamom and white chocolate to make the lightest of cakes. Perfect served for...
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Birthday cake recipes
Simple buttercream icing
A quick and easy buttercream icing recipe – made with icing sugar, butter and cream cheese – to use on...
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Chocolate cake recipes
Chocolate porter cake
The porter in this chocolate cake recipe ensures it’s extra moist. Serve this celebratory dessert at a dinner party or...
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Chocolate cake recipes
Triple-chocolate layer cake
This chocolate layer cake recipe is made with three layers of chocolate and soured cream sponge filled with a fluffy...
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