Easy cake recipes

First time baker? No need to worry, baking doesn’t have to be complicated. With our range of easy recipes you can wow friends and family with these tempting treats from loaf cakes to tarts. Many have just a few ingredients to make your life even more simple.

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Ginger marmalade cake

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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Date and walnut loaf

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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Chocolate, blood orange and hazelnut cake

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, cardamom and ricotta cake

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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Banana, maple and pecan cake

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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Sourdough banana bread

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 and jam marble cake traybake

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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Alison Roman’s raspberry and ricotta cake

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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Vanilla buttercream

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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Gooseberry and ginger loaf cake

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 and hazelnut cake

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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Apricot cake

Apricot recipes

Apricot cake

When apricots are at their best you don’t need much to make their flavour sing, which is why this simple...

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Apple crumble cupcakes

Apple recipes

Apple crumble cupcakes

Bring Britain’s best pud to the cupcake format with these apple-studded cupcakes topped with warming custard buttercream, and an oat...

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Vegan Victoria sponge cake

Vegan dessert recipes

Vegan Victoria sponge cake

Light, springy and seriously moreish, this vegan Victoria sponge is packed with fresh lemon flavour, vegan buttercream and raspberry jam....

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Orange and poppy seed cake

Orange recipes

Orange and poppy seed cake

“I’ve made Claudia Roden’s boiled orange and almond cake more times than I can count. Sometimes, I use the original...

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Peanut butter muffins

Afternoon tea recipes

Peanut butter muffins

In just over half an hour you can have a tray of still-warm, fluffy and delicious peanut butter  muffins packed...

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