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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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 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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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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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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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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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 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 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 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 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 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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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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Easy baking recipes to make with kids
Raspberry and custard mini cakes
Reminiscent of school traybakes with pink icing, these raspberry and custard mini cakes are given a suitably chic update –...
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Raspberry recipes
Raspberry loaf cake
A simple raspberry loaf cake is a beautiful thing – easy to make, easier to eat and ready for whatever...
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