Picnic recipes
Put down a blanket and enjoy the outdoors with our best picnic recipes, including summer salads, sausage rolls, sandwiches and cake recipes. Ideal picnic food for al fresco eating.
- Simple savoury inspiration: Finger foods such as mini pork pies, scotch eggs and sausage rolls are picnic snacking family favourites. Fill sandwiches with classic egg mayo and coronation chicken – or try this posh picnic loaf stuffed with cheese.
- Easy-to-share ideas: For large groups, pack this slice-and-share tomato frittata, make-ahead feta pasta salad or baked ham with potato salad. Don’t forget the crisps and dips!
- Sweet picnic recipes: We recommend easy-to-eat wedges of cake, like our upside down apricot cake, old school Tottenham cake or elderflower drizzle loaf. Simple flapjacks and cookies are always a winner, too!
Browse our favourite savoury bakes, from quiches to galettes, for more sharing inspiration.
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Mexican street corn pasta salad
This crowd-pleasing pasta salad is inspired by the Mexican street corn dish, elotes: charred corn slathered with a creamy dressing.
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Spanish omelettes
Traditional Spanish tortilla
Learn how to make a traditional Spanish tortilla with our easy recipe. This iconic potato omelette is one of the most popular dishes in Spain
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Cookies
Popcorn cookies
Crisp and light, these easy cornmeal cookies dotted with popcorn are a fun and flavoursome twist on the classic American bake.
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Pasties
Mutton and olive pasties
Bold, briny flavours from olives, capers and anchovies cut through robust mutton in this tapenade-inspired take on the classic pasty.
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Elderflower
Elderflower drizzle cake
Lemon and elderflower are a match made in heaven, and this easy drizzle cake with fresh elderflowers proves it. The perfect bake for late spring.
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Giant recipes
Giant peanut butter choc-chip cookie
This giant peanut butter cookie is a speedy sweet sensation that bakes in less that 15 minutes. Make it with milk, white or dark chocolate.
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Teatime traybakes
Tottenham cake
Tottenham cake is a simple vanilla traybake topped with pink icing. Learn how to make this nostalgic bake from London with our easy recipe.
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Sausage rolls
Bedfordshire clangers
Learn to make a traditional Bedfordshire clanger. This pasty-style bake has a savoury pork filling at one end and sweet filling at the other.
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Condiment recipes
Salad cream
Learn how to make your own salad cream with our easy, one-step recipe. This versatile condiment works as a dip, dressing and sandwich filler.
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Boiled eggs
Sesame and lime duck egg mayo
Using duck eggs gives egg mayo an instant upgrade. Add sesame oil for nuttiness, miso for depth and lime juice for zesty lightness.
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Pies
Dingle pies
Dingle pies are handheld lamb pies hailing from the town of Dingle in County Kerry. Delicious warm from the oven or part of a picnic spread.
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Sandwiches
Classic egg mayo
Classic egg mayo is taken to the next level with a mix of soft and hard-boiled eggs, plus plenty of malt vinegar and ground white pepper.
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Sausage rolls
Turkey and cranberry sausage rolls
These turkey and cranberry sausage rolls are perfect for preparing ahead and keeping in the freezer for those last-minute festive occasions.
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Beetroot
Beetroot houmous
This beautiful pink dip offers up everything we love about houmous but with a sweet earthiness from beetroot. And it takes minutes to make!
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Sandwiches
Roast beef pan bagnat
Pan bagnat is the king of picnic sandwiches – and our version roast beef and tapenade mayo. Make in advance, so the flavours can mingle.
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Scotch eggs
Pickled walnut scotch eggs
Few things that improve a picnic more than a homemade scotch egg. These pickled walnut scotch eggs take just 35 minutes to make.
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