Easy cake recipes

Baking doesn’t have to be complicated. With our easy recipes you can wow friends and family with these tasty baked treats.

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Chocolate swiss meringue buttercream

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Chocolate swiss meringue buttercream

Learn how to make perfect chocolate swiss meringue buttercream with our easy recipe. This glossy...

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Rose and pistachio cake with cardamom toffee sauce

Rose and pistachio cake with cardamom toffee sauce

Chetna Makan’s delicate rose and pistachio cake (pista gulab) is delicious on its own, but...

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Upside-down apricot cake with amaretto mascarpone cream

Upside-down apricot cake with amaretto mascarpone cream

Our upside-down apricot cake is an easy but impressive summer bake recipe. Serve the apricot...

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Salted caramel loaf cake

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Salted caramel loaf cake

A couple of secret ingredients and a simple frosting transform an easy sponge cake into...

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Banana miso pudding with caramel

Banana miso pudding with caramel

This banana miso pudding is great for dessert served with miso caramel sauce, and leftovers are...

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Biscoff microwave mug cake

Biscoff microwave mug cake

Looking for a quick pick me up? This Biscoff microwave mug cake takes about 5 minutes...

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Ginger drizzle traybake with cream cheese icing

Ginger drizzle traybake with cream cheese icing

Rich, moist and sticky, this easy ginger traybake cake is topped with cream cheese icing...

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Banana bread

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Banana bread

Our classic banana bread recipe is simple to make and it doesn’t require much hands-on...

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Toffee apple cake

Toffee apple cake

Part pudding and part cake, this toffee apple creation is always best served warm with...

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Mango, lime and ginger loaf cake

Mango, lime and ginger loaf cake

This tropical loaf is made using mango purée and lime to add some zing and...

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Lamingtons

Lamingtons

Popular in Australia, Lamingtons are made by covering vanilla sponge cake squares in chocolate icing...

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Easy butterfly cakes

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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...

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Orange blossom, lemon thyme and almond cake

Orange blossom, lemon thyme and almond cake

This stunning cake sees zesty orange and almond sponge slathered in honey and orange blossom...

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Eton mess traybake

Eton mess traybake

We’ve turned the crowdpleasing dessert, Eton mess, into a teatime traybake. A strawberry and almond...

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Tropical upside-down cake

Tropical upside-down cake

Turn any frown upside-down with this scrumptious recipe for tropical upside-down cake made with juicy...

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Easy carrot cake

Easy carrot cake

It’s always good to have a carrot cake recipe up your sleeve for birthdays and...

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