Loaf cake recipes
Loaf cakes are often the simplest to make, rarely requiring more than a drizzle or simple decoration on top. Bake up a storm with one of our simple loaf cake recipes including a sticky chocolate cake, sweet honey cake and the ultimate ginger loaf.
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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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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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Cake recipes
Gooseberry and ginger loaf cake
Gooseberry's tart flavour works so well with the warming hum of ground ginger in this wonderfully simple cake. The use of ground almonds and yogurt makes the crumb super moist.
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Raspberry recipes
Raspberry loaf cake
This raspberry loaf cake is a beautiful thing – easy to make, easier to eat and ready for whatever fruity additions you fancy.
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Lemon cake recipes
Lemon curd quatre quarts (French pound cake)
This classic French pound cake, known as quatre quarts is an easy, fragrant bake for rainy days. This version features lemon curd for zest!
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Loaf cake recipes
Blackberry and coconut loaf cake
Make our blackberry, lemon and toasted coconut loaf cake. Serve with coconut and lemon curd yogurt as a dessert, or sliced with a cuppa.
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Loaf cake recipes
Salted caramel loaf cake
A couple of secret ingredients and a simple frosting transform an easy loaf cake into a heavenly salted caramel treat.
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Banana bread recipes
Banana, chocolate and tahini loaf cake
This banana and chocolate loaf uses tahini, cardamom and sesame seeds to bring a Middle Eastern slant to a classic teatime treat.
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Simnel cake recipes
Simnel loaf cake
Our easy simnel loaf cake recipe is an ideal bake for the Easter weekend. It's delicious served warm, topped with apricot jam.
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Loaf cake recipes
Stout, orange and dried fruit loaf with winter herbs
This is a fruit loaf which has it all: earthy, nutty flavours from the celeriac, a subtle bitter note from the stout and a scattering of fresh winter herbs.
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Loaf cake recipes
Coconut and cardamom loaf cake
Niloufer Mavalvala's coconut loaf cake is fabulously light, scented with cardamom and topped with lemon icing – perfect for Mother's Day.
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Classic cake recipes
Easy lemon drizzle loaf cake
You can't knock a classic lemon drizzle cake. Our easy loaf recipe combines a zesty, syrup-drenched sponge with a crunchy sugar crust.
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Carrot cake recipes
Spiced carrot halwa cake
Georgina Hayden puts a different spin on a carrot cake with her halwa recipe, spiced with cardomom and topped with brown-sugar buttercream.
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Loaf cake recipes
Pomegranate loaf cake
Try this beautiful yet easy-to-make almond and polenta loaf cake drizzled with fresh pomegranate juice and seeds. An afternoon tea recipe with a difference.
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Easy cake recipes
Mango, lime and ginger loaf cake
Our tropical loaf cake is made using mango purée and lime to add a drop of zing and zest into this afternoon tea treat. Bake it today!
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Loaf cake recipes
Bounty cake
We've taken the ever-popular bounty chocolate bar and turned it into a decadent teatime treat. This chocolate-coconut cake is pure perfection.
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