Easy baking recipes to make with kids
Keep children busy with some baking during school holidays; they can help you make these easy recipes – both sweet and savoury – and enjoy the results as a treat. Try our throw-it-all-in rocky road, old-fashioned flapjacks, blueberry muffins and lots more…
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Savoury bread recipes
Simple wholemeal loaf
Learn how to make a simple free-form loaf with our easy recipe. Diverse wholemeal wheat flour, such as YQ, isn’t...
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Cookie recipes
Banoffee pan-bang cookies
Banoffee pie fans, meet your new favourite cookie. These pan-bang cookies are laced with milk chocolate, banana chips and gooey...
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Cookie recipes
Chocolate orange pan-bang cookies
Chocolate orange fans will love this zesty take on pan-bang cookies. These wrinkly cult cookies – a social media sensation...
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Baking recipes
Date and walnut loaf
This classic date and walnut loaf recipe comes from Irish food writer Cherie Denham. We defy you to resist it...
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Irish recipes
Spotted dog (Irish soda bread with sultanas)
Spotted dog is an enriched soda bread made with sugar, sultanas and egg. Cherie Denham shares her recipe for this...
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Scone recipes
Cheese and mixed herb scones
Cherie Denham’s cheese scones are the ultimate treat with a hearty vegetable soup – a marriage of tangy cheese and...
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Irish recipes
Soda farls
Cherie Denham shares a favourite family recipe for soda farls, the traditional Irish bake of flattened and griddled soda bread...
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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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Halloween recipes
Halloween black cherry jam tarts
Nothing takes you back to childhood quicker than a homemade jam tart, but these gothic black cherry numbers have been...
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Biscuit recipes
Manon Lagrève’s palets bretons
Manon Lagrève shares her recipe for palets bretons. These golden, buttery shortbreads hail from Brittany and are perfect the perfect...
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Biscuit recipes
Lemon pepper biscuit kisses
The lemony zing of these buttery biscuits is swiftly followed by a prickly heat of black pepper with every bite,...
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Banana bread recipes
Sourdough banana bread
Did you know you could make cake with sourdough starter? It adds distinctive tang to this banana bread from sourdough...
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Peanut butter recipes
Peanut butter and jam thumbprint cookies
Our peanut butter and jam cookies are where it’s at if you need a sweet treat fast! Peanut butter gives...
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Teatime traybake recipes
Peanut butter and jam marble cake traybake
Our peanut butter and jam marble cake traybake sees swirls of fluffy peanut butter icing and glistening jam (or jelly...
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Baking recipes
Alison Roman’s raspberry and ricotta cake
Alison Roman’s ricotta cake with raspberries swirled through the batter is a subtly-sweet bake. The perfect easy cake recipe for...
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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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