Spiced plum cake with swiss meringue frosting
This spiced plum cake is a winner: a golden sponge studded with juicy red plums is…
Vegetarian
🍽 Serves 8-10⏱ 45 min hands-on · 1 hour 35 min oven◆ Easy
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Classic cake recipes
Feeling inspired by Great British Bake Off? Beat the competition to top the cake charts with these classic cake recipes including Victoria sponge, angel cake and carrot cake. We’ve put some bakes that are deserving of future classic status in here too…
Find our best of the best carrot cake, a zesty easy lemon drizzle, easy butterfly cakes and more.
We’ve also got subtle twists, like a moreish chocolate cake with caramel poached pears, red velvet bundt cheesecake, or lemon and pistachio Battenberg.
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Easy butterfly cakes
Light-as-air sponge is topped with vanilla buttercream in these almost-too-good-to-eat fairy cakes. They’re great to make…
Freezable
🍽 Makes 12⏱ 20 min hands-on · 25 min oven◆ Easy
Best of the best carrot cake
Carrot cake is a crowdpleaser and one every keen baker should have in their arsenal. This…
Freezable
🍽 Serves 8-10⏱ 45 min. Oven time 40-45 min hands-on · 45 min oven◆ Easy
Date and walnut loaf
This classic date and walnut loaf recipe comes from Irish food writer Cherie Denham. We defy…
Freezable
🍽 Makes 1kg loaf⏱ 15 min hands-on · 60 min oven◆ Easy
Traditional Dorset apple cake
Learn how to make a traditional Dorset apple cake with Sue Quinn’s trusty recipe, inspired by…
Freezable
🍽 Serves 6-8⏱ 20 min. Oven time 40 min hands-on · 40 min oven◆ Easy
Manon Lagrève’s carrot cake
Manon Lagrève puts a French twist on a classic Anglo-American bake in this beautiful spiced carrot…
Vegetarian
🍽 Serves 8-10⏱ 45 min hands-on · 45 min oven◆ Easy
Orange and poppy seed cake
“I’ve made Claudia Roden’s boiled orange and almond cake more times than I can count. Sometimes,…
Dairy-freeFreezable
🍽 Serves 8-10⏱ 20 min. Oven time 50 min. Simmering time 2 hours hands-on · 2 hours 50 min oven◆ Easy
Christmas bundt cake
Create a festive showstopper with our Christmas bundt cake. Master the base recipe, but feel free…
Vegetarian
🍽 Serves 12-14⏱ 25 min. Oven time 40-45 min hands-on · 45 min oven◆ Easy
Eric Lanlard’s gâteau breton
Patissier Eric Lanlard shares his family recipe for traditional gâteau breton. This rich, buttery bake is…
Vegetarian
🍽 Serves 8-10⏱ 20 min hands-on · 45 min oven◆ Easy
Mary Berry’s rich fruit Christmas cake
Mary Berry’s rich traditional Christmas cake recipe is filled to the brim with fruit, as well…
🍽 Serves 30⏱ 20 min hands-on · 4 hours oven◆ Easy
Lemon and courgette cake with white chocolate cream cheese frosting
⏱ 1 hour hands-on◆ Easy
Chocolate cake with caramel poached pears and chocolate buttercream
⏱ 30 min hands-on◆ Medium
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