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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Classic cake recipes
Battenberg cake
Getting the signature chequerboard effect of the classic Battenberg cake requires a little know-how and a...

Chocolate cake recipes
Peanut butter drip cake
A dark chocolate sponge is sandwiched and covered with peanut buttercream, drizzled with a rich...

Celebration cake recipes
Lemon, blueberry and coconut cake
This stunning layer cake by Bake Off finalist Alice Fevronia is a project for a...

Celebration cake recipes
Carrot and cheesecake layer cake
Four layers of carrot cake sponge are sandwiched between a chocolate and vanilla marbled cheesecake...

Celebration cake recipes
Russian honey biscuit cake
This Russian honey biscuit cake needs to be assembled at least 6 hours ahead of time...

Halloween recipes
Halloween celebration cake
A dark chocolate sponge is sandwiched and covered with peanut buttercream, drizzled with a rich...

Celebration cake recipes
Mango, cardamom and coconut cake
In this mango cake recipe, Chetna Makan has brought together three of her favourite ingredients...

Celebration cake recipes
Sugarplum fairy cakes
Soft and fluffy fairy cakes are dotted with little nuggets of marzipan and come topped...

Celebration cake recipes
Summer-cup bundt drizzle cake
Celebrate summer in style with Felicity Cloake‘s boozy bundt drizzle cake. She says: ”No birthday...

Celebration cake recipes
Thousand-layer cake (lapis legit)
This Indonesian thousand-layer cake, also known as lapis legit, is fittingly named for its many...

Celebration cake recipes
Caramelised white chocolate, burnt butter and tahini cake
”Caramelised white chocolate reminds me of the Caramac bars I enjoyed as a child. The...

Carrot cake recipes
Eric Lanlard’s carrot and pumpkin celebration cake
Master pâtissier Eric Lanlard created this showstopping carrot cake for delicious. magazine’s 15th birthday. We...

Chocolate cake recipes
Devil’s food cake
It’s the chocolate cake to rival all others: devil’s food cake. A rich and fudgy...

Easy cake recipes
Easy butterfly cakes
Light-as-air sponge is topped with generous dollops of vanilla bean buttercream in these almost-too-good-to-eat vanilla...

Dark chocolate recipes
Chocolate cupcakes
These indulgent chocolate cupcakes use the all-in-one method so they’re a breeze to make. Top...

Celebration cake recipes
Vanilla swiss meringue buttercream
Learn how to make light and fluffy vanilla swiss meringue buttercream, then adapt it to...

Halloween recipes
Blood splatter cake
Take Halloween to the next level with our terrifyingly good blood splatter cake. Red velvet...

Best Easter cake recipes
Chocolate nest Easter cake
Martha Collison‘s chocolate nest Easter cake goes all out with white chocolate sponge, dark chocolate...

Festive desserts
Chocolate Christmas cake
This glorious cake is a boozy showstopper – strictly for adults only. Slice through the...

Celebration cake recipes
Sticky toffee pudding cake
“Sticky toffee pudding is a longstanding British favourite, so a glorious cake showcasing the best...