Cake recipes
Plan your next big bake with our cake recipes collection. These brilliant bakes include easy traybakes, loaf cakes, cupcakes and classic sponges.
The classics: You’ll find everyone’s favourites here, including the best carrot cake recipe, simple Victoria sponge and Kim-Joy’s easy chocolate cake.
Bakes to impress: Channel your inner Bake Off contestant to make a gorgeous hummingbird cake, perfectly-frosted red velvet cake or a showstopping toffee popcorn fudge cake.
Seasonal creations: Bake your way through the year. Try our baklava dome cake for Easter, a strawberry and chocolate cake to celebrate summer, and cosy apple cake in autumn. Plus, we’ve got lots of Christmas cakes and bakes, too.
Need more inspiration? Take a look at our spectacular birthday cake recipes.
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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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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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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
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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Best Easter cakes
Baklava dome cake
This baklava-inspired dome cake is covered in pistachio icing, concealing walnut sponges sandwiched with pistachio paste and raspberry cream.
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Apple desserts
Invisible apple cake
In this incredible apple cake recipe from The Exploding Bakery, the thinly sliced apples almost melt into the custardy batter.
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Celebration cakes
Hummingbird cake
Hummingbird cake originates from Jamaica, where pineapple and banana are in abundance. Sharp cream cheese icing balances the sweetness.
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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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Afternoon tea
‘Banana’ cake
Seriously a-peel-ing, this cartoonish banana illusion cake is bound to make a statement at birthdays, special occasions and bake sales.
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Afternoon tea
Beehive cake
Buzz buzz! The friendly little bees on this illusion cake are very busy indeed, creating a wonderful beehive for your gastronomic pleasure.
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Baking recipes
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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Chocolate cakes
Kim-Joy’s super easy chocolate cake (with marshmallow pigs)
Kim-Joys easy chocolate cake is moist with a soft, tender crumb. Top with rich, shiny chocolate gananche and cute marshmallow pigs.
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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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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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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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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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