Baking recipes
What do you feel like baking today? Whether you’re in the mood for easy biscuits and muffins, something savoury, or a showstopper cake, you’ll find the recipe in our baking collection.
We’ve rounded up some of our best baking recipes. These tried-and-tested bakes include cookies, scones, traybakes, classic sponges, loaf cakes, pastries, crumbles, tarts and many more.
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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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Boozy bakes and adult puds
Rum and raisin loaf cake
This rum and raisin loaf cake has incredible flavour and a syrup-soaked texture, with sweet raisins, warming spices and a glug of rum.
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Apple pie recipes
Rick Stein’s double-crust apple pie with a touch of cinnamon
Give Rick Stein's double-crust apple pie recipe a go – it's the taste of autumn. “This is a proper old-fashioned fruit pie," says Rick.
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Apple recipes
Tamarind toffee apple cake
This showstopping toffee apple cake will impress your friends at Halloween or Bonfire Night. The tamarind caramel adds a fruity tang.
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Baking recipes
Easy banoffee sheet tart
Banoffee pie gets a glow-up in this simple tart recipe. Perfect for a mid-morning treat with a cuppa or an after-dinner dessert.
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Rice pudding recipes
Brûléed rice pudding cake with pear compote
Creamy and tender with a pleasant bite and a crunchy brûléed sugar topping, this rice pudding cake with pears will be your new obsession.
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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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Almond recipes
Tegole (Italian almond and hazelnut biscuits)
These Italian biscuits are named for their shape – tegole means ‘tiles’. They’re a nutty treat from the Alps and go perfectly with espresso.
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Brioche recipes
Nicola Lamb’s olive oil brioche with brie, roasted grapes, honey and thyme
These glorious brioche buns have a savoury hit from melted brie, balanced with a sweet-sharpness from vinegar-roasted red grapes and honey.
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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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Savoury bread recipes
Carniola bread
Carniola is a traditional flatbread from Slovenia, Try Ben Tish's recipe for this simple bread flavoured with caraway, honey and olive oil.
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Bun recipes
Nicola Lamb’s French toast cinnamon buns
Behold the squidigiest, most delicious cinnamon buns ever. These French toast buns are bathed in rum custard and drizzled with caramel icing.
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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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Scone recipes
Nicola Lamb’s flaky cheese and pickle scones
Cheese scones get the flaky treatment. Rye flour and gherkins in the layers gives these scones a deli-sandwich energy, welcome at any picnic.
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Raspberry recipes
Raspberry and sesame cheesecake danishes
These easy pastries are like a cheesecake in danish form, with raspberries, a cream cheese base and sweet-salty sesame caramel.
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