Valentine's cakes and treat recipes
Put your heart into celebrating the official day of love with a homemade cake, bake or sweet treat for your loved one. Go safe and traditional with a heart-shaped bake or try your hand at a smart French dessert. Or, if your love loves lemon drizzle cake or would appreciate a giant Jaffa cake – then bake one of those. And who doesn’t love homemade biscuits? All that really matters is making something they’ll love.
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Raspberries
Raspberry and sesame cheesecake danishes
These easy pastries are like a cheesecake in danish form, with raspberries, a cream cheese base and sweet-salty sesame caramel.
White chocolate
Caramelised white chocolate
Fan of blond chocolate? Learn how to make caramelised white chocolate at home. It sounds cheffy but is simple to make – and so versatile.
Valentine's cakes and treats
Flourless chocolate and espresso cakes
Share the love with these heart-shaped flourless chocolate cakes from renowned food writer Skye McAlpine. The perfect Valentine's dessert.
Easy vegan
Vegan chocolate brownies
Give these vegan brownies a try and see why they’re one of our favourite plant-based bakes. Gooey, fudgy and seriously chocolatey...
Christmas chocolate
Paul A Young’s vegan chocolate truffles
These intense dark chocolate truffles (which happen to be vegan) make great food gifts - if you can resist gobbling them up yourself.
Afternoon tea
Ginger toffee dodgers
Classic dodger biscuits get a welcome update with the warming flavours of ginger and caramel in this easy toffee dodgers recipe.
White chocolate
Caramelised white chocolate and miso brownies
Take your brownie-baking game to the next level with these incredible caramelised white chocolate and miso brownies. Did some say star baker?
Afternoon tea
Peanut butter muffins
In just over half an hour you can have a tray of still-warm, fluffy and delicious peanut butter muffins packed with goodness. Great for feeding a crowd or filling lunchboxes.
Cheesecakes
Champagne jelly cheesecake
This chic Champagne jelly cheesecake was made for special occasions. A creamy filling is topped with sparkling jelly and edible silver leaf.
Platinum Jubilee
Lemon madeleines with gin and Dubonnet sorbet
Debora Robertson's lemon madeleines with gin and dubonnet sorbet are a delicious Anglo-French celebration dessert for the Queen's Jubilee.
Cheesecakes
Lindor white chocolate and passion fruit cheesecake
For a truly decadent festive dessert, top delicious white chocolate cheesecake with passion fruit, toasted coconut and white choc Lindor.
Sharing recipes to feed a crowd
Giant Ferrero Rocher éclair to share
The award for the biggest, best pastry goes to our giant Ferrero Rocher éclair. This showstopper serves 8-10 for an ideal Christmas dessert.
Dinner party desserts
Gloria’s lemon meringue pie
Learn how to make Gloria's lemon meringue pie. The London restaurant's famous pud has tangy custard, crumbly pastry and mile-high meringue.
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