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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Gingercake bites

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.

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Rum and raisin loaf cake

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.

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Tamarind toffee apple cake

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.

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Brûléed rice pudding cake with pear compote

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.

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Theo Randall’s torta barozzi (flourless chocolate, almond and rum cake)

Italian desserts

Theo Randall’s torta barozzi (flourless chocolate, almond and rum cake)

Torta barozzi is a rich and fudgy flourless chocolate cake from Northern Italy. Perfect when you need an easy make-ahead dessert.

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Cephalonia-style Greek walnut cake

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.

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Strawberry, chocolate and lemon drizzle cake

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!

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Jamaican ginger cake with chocolate ganache and berry coulis

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.

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Best of the best carrot cake

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.

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Ginger marmalade cake

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.

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Traditional Dorset apple cake

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.

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Chocolate, blood orange and hazelnut 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.

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Clementine, cardamom and ricotta cake

Clementines

Clementine, cardamom and ricotta cake

Light and fluffy, rich with ricotta and fragrant with cardamom, this easy clementine cake recipe is a crowdpleaser.

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Tres leches eggnog cake

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.

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Banana, maple and pecan cake

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.

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Ravneet Gill’s strawberry and lemon verbena fraisier cake

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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