Summer cake recipes
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Loaf cakes
Blackberry and coconut loaf cake
Make our blackberry, lemon and toasted coconut loaf cake. Serve with coconut and lemon curd yogurt as a dessert, or sliced with a cuppa.
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August seasonal
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 cold as an afternoon treat.
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Apricots
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 mascarpone cream.
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Gooseberries
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 vanilla custard.
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Celebration cakes
Summer-cup bundt drizzle cake
Celebrate summer in style with Felicity Cloake's boozy bundt drizzle cake. You could swap the spirits for Pimms too, if you prefer.
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Make-ahead desserts
Pistachio and rose ice cream cake
A magnificent ice cream cake that you can make ahead. Just remove this gorgeous pistachio cake from the freezer 10 mins before serving.
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Teatime traybakes
Lighter plum and almond traybake
This moist and fruity almond and plum cake turns a teatime treat into something saintly that's lower in sugar and fat but still tastes sweet.
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Mother's Day
Orange blossom, lemon thyme and almond cake
This stunning cake sees zesty orange and almond sponge slathered in honey and orange blossom cream. Why not bake it as a Mother's Day cake?
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Peaches
Peach cake with raspberry sauce and ice cream
This marvellously moist peach upside-down cake is served with cooling vanilla ice cream and an intense raspberry sauce – a wonderful dessert
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Afternoon tea
Rosé and raspberry financiers
Financiers are an irresistible afternoon tea treat – these are made more indulgent by soaking the raspberries in rosé wine. Hands off, kids!
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Easy cakes
Raspberry and lemon sponge cake
Try this lemon version of a Victoria sponge, filled with raspberry jam and fresh cream – it's a scrumptious teatime or Mother's Day cake.
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Marzipan
Marzipan and mascarpone cake with summer fruit
Looking for a summer cake recipe? Thus marzipan sponge cake is topped with creamy mascarpone icing and oodles of fresh summer fruits.
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Classic cakes
Strawberry and rose victoria sponge sandwich
A twist on a classic, this special strawberry victoria sponge recipe uses decadent rose extract and petals to create a truly beautiful cake.
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Cheesecakes
Gin and tonic cheesecake
A cheesecake recipe inspired by the nation's best-loved tipple, with a gin and tonic-flavoured jelly, creamy middle and Biscoff base.
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Strawberries
Strawberry and vanilla baked cheesecake
Strawberries are the hero in this beautiful baked strawberry cheesecake recipe – it'd be perfect for a summer dinner party dessert, or even afternoon tea
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Italian desserts
Limoncello drizzle cake
A good splash of Italian limoncello adds a boozy note to this cocktail-inspired drizzle cake - perfect for an adults only afternoon treat.
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