Weekend baking recipes
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Savoury bread
Puttanesca focaccia
Our pillowy focaccia - glistening with olive oil and topped with tomatoes, olives, anchovies and capers - is this summer’s must-bake.
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Brioche
Brioche dough
Baker Anna Higham shares her recipe for beautifully glossy brioche dough. Use it to make a brioche loaf, buns or an incredible fruit tart.
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Fruit tarts
Plum and apricot brioche tart with crème fraîche custard
This extra-special plum and apricot tart is packed with ripe stone fruits encased in golden brioche, with a creme fraiche custard.
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Baking recipes
Cardamom and orange sticky buns
Michael Chakraverty and David Atherton (aka the Sticky Bun Boys) created these gloriously colourful orange and cardamom sticky buns to encapsulate the playfulness and joie de vivre of the pride and queer food movement.
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Thanksgiving
Alison Roman’s caramelised maple tart
Alison Roman's caramelised maple tart has a deep, rich maple flavour with a hint of cinnamon. Top with whipped cream and a drizzle of syrup.
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Patisserie
Vanilla slice
The hero of many a high street bakery, the vanilla slice is a glorious thing. Like a cross between a custard tart and a mille feuille, it takes you through a whole range of textures and embraces the retro aesthetic better than any other bake.
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Cakes
Strawberry chiffon cake
A great summer sponge, chiffon cake’s uniquely satisfying texture means you can squeeze the sponge and it will quickly bounce back into shape, like an ACTUAL sponge.
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Baking recipes
Soured cream sage doughnuts
Give Canadian-style soured cream doughnuts a deliciously unexpected flavour twist. Sage adds a delicate herbal note. Serve with coffee.
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Patisserie
Choux buns with raspberry, rose and pistachio
These choux buns are filled with a silky pistachio cream and a sharp raspberry and rose coulis – plus a pretty speckled craquelin on top.
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Celebration cakes
Pistachio layer cake with cream cheese frosting
This magnificent pistachio cake combines a light and nutty sponge with a decadently rich cream cheese icing!
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Bake sale
Juniper millionaire’s shortbread
The botanical flavour juniper adds to millionaire's shortbread is exceptional. Chocolate tastes fruitier; caramel's sweetness is tempered.
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Italian desserts
Cannoli
Cannoli are undoubtedly the most popular dessert of Sicilian baking. A bite into a homemade cannoli delivers a simple yet glorious triumph of flavours.
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Baking recipes
Banana and apple crumble muffins
Bake Cherie’s Denham's simple apple and banana muffins, complete with a delicious crumble topping. The perfect breakfast muffin.
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Weekend baking
Iced cinnamon rolls
The soft and pillowy, lightly spiced and immensely comforting cinnamon roll is one of the baking world’s great joys.
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Rhubarb
Rhubarb and custard brioche loaf
Peell away the layers of this heavenly tear-and-share brioche loaf. Between each sheet of pillowy dough sits a rich rhubarb custard.
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Rhubarb
Rhubarb and custard Portuguese tarts
Flaky pastry, caramelised vanilla custard and sharp rhubarb make these Portuguese custard tarts (AKA pastéis de nata) an absolute must.
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