Afternoon tea recipes
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Cherry recipes
Cherry madeleines with hot toffee sauce
These beautiful cherry madeleines come with a boozy toffee sauce for dipping. Serve them for afternoon tea or as a mini dinner party dessert.
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Afternoon tea recipes
Jammy doughnuts
If you've ever wondered how to make jam doughnuts, this versatile recipe has tips for filled doughnuts, ring doughuts, and various flavours.
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Afternoon tea recipes
Jam doughnuts
Follow our foolproof recipe for warm, pillowy, sugar-coated jam doughnuts – they're easier to make than you might think.
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Carrot cake recipes
Carrot and walnut cake
Ciara Davis's luscious carrot and walnut cake is packed with sultanas and desiccated coconut and covered with zesty lemon cream cheese icing.
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Chocolate orange recipes
Chocolate orange tea loaf
This chocolate orange tea loaf is inspired by the jaffa cake – it captures that wonderful mix of marmalade, dark chocolate and sponge.
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Sweet tart recipes
Marmalade and coconut bakewell tart
This twist on the traditional bakewell tart has a marmalade filling and coconut frangipane top. Its oblong shape makes it easy to slice.
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Afternoon tea recipes
Sticky almond and date shortbread
This crisp, crumbly shortbread topped with a sticky almond and date caramel is a restorative teatime treat – enjoy with a cup of tea.
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Scone recipes
Little buttermilk scones with cardamom cream and rhubarb compote
Time for afternoon tea? These mini buttermilk scones are filled with a wonderful pink rhubarb compote and fragrant cardamom cream.
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Afternoon tea recipes
Lemon and pistachio battenberg
This battenberg cake recipe swaps traditional pink and white squares for lemon and pistachio flavoured green and yellow squares.
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Marzipan recipes
Cherry and marzipan cake with orange blossom syrup
This summery cake recipe combines pistachios and orange blossom water with seasonal British cherries. Share with friends over a pot of tea.
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Afternoon tea recipes
Millionaire’s shortbread
You can't beat a slice of proper millionaire's shortbread – made with layers of shortbread, caramel and dark chocolate – with afternoon tea.
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Loaf cake recipes
Date and ginger cake with caramel glaze
This indulgent date and ginger loaf cake is topped with a rich, glossy golden caramel glaze. Serve a slice with your afternoon tea or coffee.
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Chocolate cake recipes
Lisa Faulkner’s sticky chocolate loaf cake
Check out Lisa Faulkner's rich chocolate loaf cake decorated with sugared rose petals – surely the perfect cake for your mum on Mother's Day.
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Best of British recipes
Singin’ hinnies
These traditional raisin-studded griddle cakes from the North East of England are a teatime treat worth singing about.
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Afternoon tea recipes
Easy macaroons
These easy macaroons make great gifts, are ideal to hand round as sweet canapés or petits fours, and really look the part at afternoon tea.
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