Summer cake recipes
These gorgeous summer cake recipes feature fresh seasonal ingredients, like elderflowers, strawberries and peaches. Perfect for summer fetes, picnics or afternoon tea in the garden.
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Cake recipes
Ravneet Gill’s strawberry and lemon verbena fraisier cake
This gorgeous creation from Ravneet Gill is the ideal bake when strawberries are at their best. A light sponge is...
Cake recipes
Peanut butter and jam brown butter sponge cake
When the old Victoria sandwich won’t hit the spot, this peanut butter and jam brown butter sponge cake from Tarunima...
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...
Cake recipes
Chocolate angel cake
Angel cakes are light as a feather due to the lack of butter/fat in the sponge. The whipped egg whites...
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...
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...
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...
Afternoon tea recipes
Chetna Makan’s cherry, almond and honey upside-down cake
This cherry upside-down cake from food writer and Bake Off star Chetna Makan looks and tastes wonderful – plus it’s...
Fruity cheesecake recipes
Mango cheesecake
This sumptuous, no-bake mango cheesecake from Avinash Shashidhara is a must-try, make-ahead marvel. Imagine mango lassi reimagined in dessert form,...
Loaf cake recipes
Blackberry and coconut loaf cake
Make the most of blackberry season with our blackberry, lemon and toasted coconut loaf cake. It can be served with...
August seasonal recipes
Peach and passion fruit crumble traybake
Our easy peach and passion fruit crumble traybake can be served warm with custard or ice cream for pudding, or...
Apricot recipes
Upside-down apricot cake with amaretto mascarpone cream
Our upside-down apricot cake is an easy but impressive summer bake recipe. Serve the apricot and almond sponge with amaretto...
Gooseberry recipes
Sticky gooseberry cake with saffron and honey with custard
Gill Meller’s gooseberry cake has a pleasing tartness, balanced by the saffron and honey sponge, and mellowed further with homemade...
Celebration cake recipes
Summer-cup bundt drizzle cake
Celebrate summer in style with Felicity Cloake‘s boozy bundt drizzle cake. She says: ”No birthday picnic is complete for me...
Make-ahead dessert recipes
Pistachio and rose ice cream cake
A magnificent serve-from-the-freezer dessert that you can make ahead of your dinner party. All you have to do is remove...
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