Birthday cake recipes
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Chocolate cake recipes
Peanut butter drip cake
A dark chocolate peanut butter drip cake is topped with biscuits; a stunning centrepiece for any birthday or celebration.
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Teatime traybake recipes
Ginger drizzle traybake with cream cheese icing
Rich, moist and sticky, this easy ginger traybake cake is topped with cream cheese icing and slices easily into shareable squares.
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Baked cheesecake recipes
Baked lemon cheesecake with pineapple flowers
This bright and zesty baked lemon cheesecake topped with edible pineapple flowers (they're easy to make) is perfect for Mother's Day or any celebration.
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Celebration cake recipes
Carrot and cheesecake layer cake
This carrot cake and marbled cheesecake layer cake is a truly spectacular celebration cake that's perfect for birthdays or Easter.
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Celebration cake recipes
Sugarplum fairy cakes
Fluffy fairy cakes are dotted with nuggets of marzipan and topped with buttercream and caramel shards. A cake truly fit for a fairy queen.
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Celebration cake recipes
Summer-cup bundt drizzle cake
Celebrate summer in style with Felicity Cloake's boozy bundt drizzle cake. You could swap the spirits for Pimms too, if you prefer.
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Afternoon tea recipes
St Clement’s squares
Make your mum these lemony, flower-topped St Clement's shortbreads to serve as afternoon tea on Mother's Day or as an Easter bake.
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Celebration cake recipes
Caramelised white chocolate, burnt butter and tahini cake
Bake John Whaite's epic white chocolate, burnt butter and tahini celebration cake to really impress your guests or celebrate a birthday,
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Carrot cake recipes
Eric Lanlard’s carrot and pumpkin celebration cake
Eric Lanlard's carrot cake with ginger mascarpone frosting is the perfect birthday cake, Easter treat or celebration centrepiece.
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Afternoon tea recipes
Tunnock’s teacake traybake
Our traybake take on Tunnock's teacakes sees a thick layer of pillowy meringue sandwiched between a biscuity base and a blanket of chocolate.
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Easy cake recipes
Easy butterfly cakes
Light-as-air sponge is topped with vanilla buttercream in these almost-too-good-to-eat butterfly cakes. They're great to make with kids.
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Dark chocolate recipes
Chocolate cupcakes
These indulgent chocolate cupcakes use the all-in-one method so they're easy to make. Top with thick swirls of chocolate ganache.
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Mother's Day recipes
Orange blossom, lemon thyme and almond cake
This stunning cake sees zesty orange and almond sponge slathered in honey and orange blossom cream. Why not bake it as a Mother's Day cake?
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Easy cake recipes
Eton mess traybake
Debbie Major turns the crowdpleasing dessert, Eton mess, into a just-as-good teatime traybake. Serve as a fabulous addition to afternoon tea.
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Nut-free cakes and bakes
Nut-free carrot cupcakes
These nut-free carrot cupcakes are slathered in cream cheese icing. Serve as part of a nut-free afternoon tea or kids' party spread.
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Easy cake recipes
Raspberry and lemon sponge cake
Try this lemon version of a Victoria sponge, filled with raspberry jam and fresh cream – it's a scrumptious teatime or Mother's Day cake.
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