Easy baking recipes to make with kids
Keep children busy with some baking during school holidays; they can help you make these easy recipes – both sweet and savoury – and enjoy the results as a treat. Try our throw-it-all-in rocky road, old-fashioned flapjacks, blueberry muffins and lots more…
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Christmas baking recipes
Snowman empire biscuits
Snowman empires offer a festive twist on this Scottish biscuit. Ideal for Christmas baking with kids, they pair shortbread with a jam filling.
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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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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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Scone recipes
Cottage cheese and chive scones
Cottage cheese gives these deliciously savoury scones a subtle tang, amped up with a little kick of chilli.
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Baking recipes
Honey flapjacks
These simple honey flapjacks are the perfect vehicle for showcasing the complex floral flavours of a good-quality honey.
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Savoury bread recipes
Simple wholemeal loaf
Learn how to make a rustic loaf with our simple recipe. This free-form bread uses a mix of wholemeal and white flour for best results.
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Cookie recipes
Banoffee pan-bang cookies
Banoffee pie fans, meet your new favourite cookie. These pan-bang cookies are laced with milk chocolate, banana chips and gooey toffees.
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Cookie recipes
Chocolate orange pan-bang cookies
Chocolate orange fans will love this zesty take on pan-bang cookies. These wrinkly cult cookies are a guaranteed hit and easy to make.
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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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Irish recipes
Spotted dog (Irish soda bread with sultanas)
Spotted dog is an enriched soda bread made with sugar, sultanas and egg. Cherie Denham shares her recipe for this Irish farmhouse classic.
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Scone recipes
Cheese and mixed herb scones
Cherie Denham's cheese scones are the ultimate treat with vegetable soup – a marriage of tangy cheese and herbs strewn over a soft scone.
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Irish recipes
Soda farls
Cherie Denham shares her recipe for soda farls, traditional Irish flattened and griddled soda bread cut into quarters ('farls').
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Apple recipes
Traditional Dorset apple cake
Learn how to make a traditional Dorset apple cake with Sue Quinn's trusty recipe. It makes a moist, buttery and seriously delicious cake.
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Halloween recipes
Halloween black cherry jam tarts
Nothing takes you back to childhood quicker than a homemade jam tart. These gothic black cherry numbers have a Halloween twist.
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Biscuit recipes
Manon Lagrève’s palets bretons
Manon Lagrève shares her recipe for palets bretons. These golden, seriously buttery shortbread biscuits hail from Brittany in France.
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Biscuit recipes
Lemon pepper biscuit kisses
The lemony zing of these buttery biscuit kisses is swiftly followed by a prickly heat of black pepper with every bite.
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