Celebration cake recipes
Celebrating a birthday party or wedding? Wow your guests, or surprise a friend, with one of these impressive celebration cake recipes.
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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
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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Cake recipes
Ravneet Gill’s strawberry and lemon verbena fraisier cake
A fraisier cake was among my earliest endeavours at culinary school. The simplicity and elegance of this cake are truly unmatched.
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Carrot cake recipes
Manon Lagrève’s carrot cake
Manon Lagrève puts a French twist on a classic Anglo-American bake in this spiced carrot cake recipe from the Bake Off alumni.
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Cake recipes
Peanut butter and jam brown butter sponge cake
Say goodbye to that old Victoria sandwich, this peanut butter and jam brown butter sponge cake from Tarunima Sinha will NOT disappoint.
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Cake recipes
Strawberry chiffon cake
A great summer sponge, chiffon cake’s uniquely satisfying texture means you can squeeze the sponge and it will quickly bounce back into shape, like an ACTUAL sponge.
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Cake recipes
Chocolate angel cake
Treat yourself to a slice of sweetness with this classic chocolate angel cake which boasts a triple-threat of white, milk and dark chocolate.
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Celebration cake recipes
Pistachio layer cake with cream cheese frosting
This magnificent pistachio cake combines a light and nutty sponge with a decadently rich cream cheese icing!
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Coffee recipes
Walnut and coffee pastry layer cake
Monica Galetti's coffee and walnut layer cake has alternating layers of coffee cream and crisp pastry. A joyful bake for special occasions.
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Easy baking recipes to make with kids
Raspberry and custard mini cakes
Reminiscent of school traybakes with pink icing, these raspberry and custard muffins are given a suitably chic update.
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Brilliant blackberry recipes
Lemon and blackberry stripe cake
This lemon and blackberry cake is an eye-catching centrepiece for any birthday or bake sale. The real drama comes when cutting it open to reveal the vertical stripes of sponge.
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Caribbean recipes
Sticky Jamaican ginger cake with butterscotch sauce
Layers of deliciously sticky spiced Jamaican ginger cake are sandwiched with a butterscotch sauce and smothered in orange mascarpone cream.
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Platinum Jubilee recipes
Jubilee cheesecake
Our stunning Jubilee cheesecake recipe gives a nod to Her Majesty’s favourite cocktail with its Dubonnet and gin jelly topping.
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Platinum Jubilee recipes
Lemon and strawberry meringue cake
Expect gasps when you unveil this gloriously OTT strawberry cake filled with lemon curd, berries and cream and topped with a meringue crown.
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Classic cake recipes
Eric Lanlard’s gâteau breton
Eric Lanlard shares his family recipe for traditional gâteau breton. This rich, buttery bake is like a cross between a cake and a biscuit.
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Afternoon tea recipes
Spiced plum cake with swiss meringue frosting
Usher in autumn with our spiced plum cake. A golden sponge studded with juicy red plums is coated in a thick layer of swiss meringue frosting.
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