Cake recipes
Plan your next big bake with our cake recipes collection. These brilliant bakes include easy traybakes, loaf cakes, and classic sponges.
Bake to impress with spectacular birthday cakes, towering layer cakes and irresistible chocolate creations. Plus, plenty of seasonal cakes made with ripe summer berries or juicy autumn fruits. Whatever the occasion, you’ll find a cake recipe to match…
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Christmas cupcakes and small bakes
Gingercake bites
Sticky gingercake gets better with age, so it’s perfect for giving as a Christmas gift. We’ve coated each cube of cake with a lemony icing.
Boozy bakes and adult puds
Rum and raisin loaf cake
This rum and raisin loaf cake has incredible flavour and a syrup-soaked texture, with sweet raisins, warming spices and a glug of rum.
Apples
Tamarind toffee apple cake
This showstopping toffee apple cake will impress your friends at Halloween or Bonfire Night. The tamarind caramel adds a fruity tang.
Rice puddings
Brûléed rice pudding cake with pear compote
Creamy and tender with a pleasant bite and a crunchy brûléed sugar topping, this rice pudding cake with pears will be your new obsession.
Baking recipes
Cephalonia-style Greek walnut cake
Ben Tish shares his recipe for a gently-spiced walnut cake from the Greek island of Cephalonia. Try it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Baking recipes
Strawberry, chocolate and lemon drizzle cake
What's better than a lemon drizzle cake? A lemon drizzle cake crowned with dark chocolate, then topped with strawberries!
Baking recipes
Jamaican ginger cake with chocolate ganache and berry coulis
Rich, sticky Jamican ginger cake is the ultimate comfort bake. Team it with simple berry coulis and chocolate ganache for a dinner party pud.
Carrot cakes
Best of the best carrot cake
Presenting our best ever carrot cake recipe, packed with warming spice and crunchy nuts and topped with mascarpone brown butter frosting.
Easy cakes
Ginger marmalade cake
Debora Robertson's ginger marmalade cake makes your home smell wonderful and is so easy to make. One to enjoy with a pot of tea.
Apples
Traditional Dorset apple cake
Learn how to make a traditional Dorset apple cake with Sue Quinn's trusty recipe. It makes a moist, buttery and seriously delicious cake.
Chocolate cakes
Chocolate, blood orange and hazelnut cake
This terrific chocolate hazelnut cake gets its moistness from whole cooked oranges, and is topped with candied orange peel.
Clementines
Clementine, cardamom and ricotta cake
Light and fluffy, rich with ricotta and fragrant with cardamom, this easy clementine cake recipe is a crowdpleaser.
Christmas baking
Tres leches eggnog cake
This tres leches eggnog cake puts a festive spin on the Mexican milk-soaked cake. The snowy bake is light, fluffy and subtly spiced.
Baking recipes
Banana, maple and pecan cake
Bake Off's Kevin Flynn transforms banana cake into something special. Sandwich the layers with maple buttercream and top with candied pecans.
Cakes
Ravneet Gill’s strawberry and lemon verbena fraisier cake
A fraisier cake was among my earliest endeavours at culinary school. The simplicity and elegance of this cake are truly unmatched.
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