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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Carrot cake recipes
Best of the best carrot cake
Carrot cake is a crowdpleaser and one every keen baker should have in their arsenal. This is our best ever...
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Easy cake recipes
Ginger marmalade cake
Debora Robertson’s ginger marmalade cake will make your home smell wonderful and is so easy to make. Just weigh out...
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Apple recipes
Traditional Dorset apple cake
Learn how to make a traditional Dorset apple cake with Sue Quinn’s trusty recipe, inspired by a 1932 compendium of...
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Chocolate cake recipes
Chocolate, blood orange and hazelnut cake
This terrific chocolate cake is wholly inspired by Nigella’s magically moist chocolate orange cake, which in her words lasts for...
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Clementine recipes
Clementine, cardamom and ricotta cake
Light and fluffy, rich with ricotta and fragrant with cardamom, this easy clementine cake is a crowdpleaser you’ll make again...
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Christmas baking recipes
Tres leches eggnog cake
Inspired by both the Mexican milk-soaked cake and the flavours of the classic Christmas cocktail, this tres leches eggnog cake...
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Baking recipes
Banana, maple and pecan cake
Bake Off’s Kevin Flynn transforms banana cake into something special. Sandwich the layers of rich banana sponge with piped maple...
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Cake recipes
Ravneet Gill’s strawberry and lemon verbena fraisier cake
This gorgeous creation from Ravneet Gill is the ideal bake when strawberries are at their best. A light sponge is...
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Peanut butter and jam brown butter sponge cake
When the old Victoria sandwich won’t hit the spot, this peanut butter and jam brown butter sponge cake from Tarunima...
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Afternoon tea recipes
Tahini and nectarine cake
Rich and nutty tahini makes a surprisingly good flavour for a sponge cake. Paired with a zesty homemade nectarine curd,...
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Bank holiday recipes
Vanilla buttercream
Classic vanilla buttercream is a baking staple for covering cakes. Use it as your base and adapt to suit your...
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Cake recipes
Strawberry chiffon cake
A great summer sponge, chiffon cake is neither heavy nor greasy. It achieves great height, a fluffy sponge and overall...
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Cake recipes
Chocolate angel cake
Angel cakes are light as a feather due to the lack of butter/fat in the sponge. The whipped egg whites...
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Cake recipes
Gooseberry and ginger loaf cake
Gooseberry’s tart flavour works so well with the warming hum of ground ginger in this wonderfully simple loaf cake. The...
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Fig recipes
Fig and hazelnut cake
This cake is almost like a large disc of cooked hazelnut marzipan with the added bonus of fresh figs. Serve...
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Bake sale recipes
Lavender and clotted cream cake with lemon icing
This lavender and clotted cream cake is made rich and moist with ground almonds, and brought to life by a...
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