Gingercake bites
Sticky gingercake gets better with age. After a week or two it will taste richer and…
🍽 Makes 30⏱ 30 min. Oven time 35-40 min hands-on · 40 min oven◆ Medium
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Easy cake recipes
First time baker? No need to worry, baking doesn’t have to be complicated. With our range of easy recipes you can wow friends and family with these tempting treats from loaf cakes to tarts. Many have just a few ingredients to make your life even more simple.
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Theo Randall’s torta barozzi (flourless chocolate, almond and rum cake)
Torta barozzi is a rich, fudgy flourless chocolate cake from Northern Italy. Have chef Theo Randall’s…
Gluten-free
🍽 Serves 10⏱ 20 min. Oven time 30 min hands-on · 30 min oven◆ Easy
Blackberry, brown butter and almond squares
Been blackberry picking? Use up your hedgerow haul in this gorgeous traybake recipe from food writer…
🍽 Makes 16⏱ 30 min. Oven time 40 min hands-on · 40 min oven◆ Easy
Cephalonia-style Greek walnut cake
“I was first introduced to this walnut cake on the wonderful Ionian island of Cephalonia,” says…
🍽 Serves 8-10⏱ 30 min. Oven time 50 min hands-on · 50 min oven◆ Easy
Strawberry, chocolate and lemon drizzle cake
What’s better than a lemon drizzle cake? A lemon drizzle cake crowned with dark chocolate, then…
🍽 Serves 8⏱ 20 min. Oven time 50 min hands-on · 50 min oven◆ Easy
Stovetop lemon curd cake
Sitting somewhere between a steamed pudding and a traditional cake, this stovetop cake has a soft…
Freezable
🍽 Serves 8⏱ 20 min hands-on · 40 min oven◆ Easy
Ginger marmalade cake
Debora Robertson’s ginger marmalade cake will make your home smell wonderful and is so easy to…
Freezable
🍽 Serves 8-10⏱ 25 min . Oven time 45-50 min hands-on · 50 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
Chocolate, blood orange and hazelnut cake
This terrific chocolate cake is wholly inspired by Nigella’s magically moist chocolate orange cake, which in…
Dairy-freeGluten-free
🍽 Serves 8⏱ 2 hours 50 min oven◆ Easy
Clementine, cardamom and ricotta cake
Light and fluffy, rich with ricotta and fragrant with cardamom, this easy clementine cake is a…
Freezable
🍽 Serves 8⏱ 15 min. Oven time 1 hour 10-20 min hands-on · 1 hour 20 min oven◆ Easy
Banana, maple and pecan cake
Bake Off’s Kevin Flynn transforms banana cake into something special. Sandwich the layers of rich banana…
FreezableVegetarian
🍽 Serves 12-14⏱ 45 minutes hands-on · 40 min oven◆ Medium
Sourdough banana bread
Did you know you could make cake with sourdough starter? It adds distinctive tang to this…
FreezableVegetarian
🍽 Makes 1 loaf (enough to serve 6)⏱ 10 min. Oven time 1 hour hands-on · 1 hour oven◆ Easy
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