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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Christmas cupcakes and small bakes
Gingercake bites
Sticky gingercake gets better with age, so it’s perfect for giving as a Christmas gift. We’ve coated each cube of cake with a lemony icing.
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Italian dessert recipes
Theo Randall’s torta barozzi (flourless chocolate, almond and rum cake)
Torta barozzi is a rich and fudgy flourless chocolate cake from Northern Italy. Perfect when you need an easy make-ahead dessert.
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Teatime traybake recipes
Blackberry, brown butter and almond squares
Looking for a simple traybake? These almond and blackberry squares are so easy to make, but the brown butter adds an extra level of fancy.
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Baking recipes
Cephalonia-style Greek walnut cake
Ben Tish shares his recipe for a gently-spiced walnut cake from the Greek island of Cephalonia. Try it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
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Baking recipes
Strawberry, chocolate and lemon drizzle cake
What's better than a lemon drizzle cake? A lemon drizzle cake crowned with dark chocolate, then topped with strawberries!
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Lemon cake recipes
Stovetop lemon curd cake
This easy stovetop cake has a soft but dense texture topped with lashings of lemon curd. Using the hob instead of your oven saves energy.
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Easy cake recipes
Ginger marmalade cake
Debora Robertson's ginger marmalade cake makes your home smell wonderful and is so easy to make. One to enjoy with a pot of tea.
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Baking recipes
Date and walnut loaf
This classic date and walnut loaf may keep for a few days in the tin, but you won't be able to resist it warm from the oven with butter.
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Chocolate cake recipes
Chocolate, blood orange and hazelnut cake
This terrific chocolate hazelnut cake gets its moistness from whole cooked oranges, and is topped with candied orange peel.
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Clementine recipes
Clementine, cardamom and ricotta cake
Light and fluffy, rich with ricotta and fragrant with cardamom, this easy clementine cake recipe is a crowdpleaser.
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Baking recipes
Banana, maple and pecan cake
Bake Off's Kevin Flynn transforms banana cake into something special. Sandwich the layers with maple buttercream and top with candied pecans.
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Banana bread recipes
Sourdough banana bread
This moreish banana bread is made with a sourdough starter and perfectly ripe bananas to create a quick and easy bake.
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Teatime traybake recipes
Peanut butter and jam marble cake traybake
Our peanut butter and jelly marble cake traybake sees swirls of fluffy peanut butter icing and glistening jam on top of a marbled cake underneath.
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Baking recipes
Alison Roman’s raspberry and ricotta cake
Alison Roman's ricotta cake with raspberries swirled through the batter is a subtly-sweet bake. The perfect easy cake recipe for summer.
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Bank holiday recipes
Vanilla buttercream
Classic vanilla buttercream is a baking staple. Use it as your base and adapt to suit your needs – a little cocoa powder for chocolate icing or almond extract in place of vanilla.
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Cake recipes
Gooseberry and ginger loaf cake
Gooseberry's tart flavour works so well with the warming hum of ground ginger in this wonderfully simple cake. The use of ground almonds and yogurt makes the crumb super moist.
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