Celebration cake recipes
Celebrating a birthday party or wedding? Wow your guests, or surprise a friend, with one of these impressive celebration cake recipes.
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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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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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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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Birthday cakes
‘Fish’ cake
Take your next birthday party under the sea with this fabulously fishy cake! The buttercream colouring can be tailored to your theme.
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Birthday cakes
Panda cake
This happy little panda is, to everyone’s delight, completely edible. Our panda cake is perfect for birthday parties and special celebrations.
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Birthday cakes
Rat cake
Who could have predicted that creating a cake in the shape of a rat would become a social media trend? Here's how to make the illusion cake.
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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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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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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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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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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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Carrot cakes
Manon Lagrève’s carrot cake
Manon Lagrève puts a French twist on a classic Anglo-American bake in this spiced carrot cake recipe from the Bake Off alumni.
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Cakes
Peanut butter and jam brown butter sponge cake
Say goodbye to that old Victoria sandwich, this peanut butter and jam brown butter sponge cake from Tarunima Sinha will NOT disappoint.
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Cakes
Chocolate angel cake
Treat yourself to a slice of sweetness with this classic chocolate angel cake which boasts a triple-threat of white, milk and dark chocolate.
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