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Baking & Desserts

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Pumpkin Cupcakes

45 minutes

Enjoy the taste of autumn with these fluffy, lightly spiced pumpkin cupcakes topped with smooth cream cheese buttercream.

Homemade Pumpkin Spice

5 from 2 votes
2 minutes

Fill your bakes with the taste of autumn with my homemade pumpkin spice mix.

PLUS – 20+ ideas for using pumpkin spice mix in your cooking.

Lemon Drizzle Loaf Cake

4.69 from 19 votes
1 hour 10 minutes

Fluffy, moist lemon sponge with the zing of lemon drizzle, decorated with lemon icing.

Simnel Cake

5 from 2 votes
1 hour 50 minutes
+ SOAKING THE DRIED FRUIT 1 day

My version of this classic Easter cake, a light almond fruit cake filled and topped with marzipan.

Mini Egg Cookies

5 from 2 votes
24 minutes
+ CHILLING 1 hour

An Easter twist on my delicious chocolate chip cookies, crunchy on the outside and soft in the centre, and packed with Cadbury’s Mini Eggs.

Oreo Cupcakes

Oreo cupcakes on a wooden board
45 minutes

Fluffy vanilla cupcakes packed full of Oreo pieces, topped with Oreo buttercream and finished with an Oreo biscuit.

Oreo Buttercream

Oreo cupcakes topped with Oreo buttercream and Oreo buttercream in a piping bag.
10 minutes

Smooth buttercream, packed full of Oreos. Perfect for decorating cupcakes, cakes, biscuits and macarons.

Oreo Cake

A slice of Oreo sponge cake served with milk.
5 from 2 votes
55 minutes

Soft vanilla sponge cake packed full of Oreo chunks, topped with Oreo buttercream and finished with even more Oreos. The ultimate cake for Oreo lovers.

PLUS – Easily adapt this recipe to fit a range of round, square and rectangular tins.

20 Vegan Sweet Treats And Bakes To Make With Aquafaba

A grid of nine recipes made with aquafaba.

Have a go at a spot of vegan baking with these 20 delicious aquafaba recipes, ranging from cakes to cookies, from mousse to ice cream.

BONUS – 20 recipes for baking with chickpeas.

Biscoff Buttercream

Biscoff buttercream on a cupcake.
5 from 5 votes
5 minutes

Delicious, smooth buttercream packed with all the flavour of Lotus Biscoff biscuits. Perfect for decorating cakes, cupcakes, biscuits or macarons.

Vanilla Bundt Cake with Milk Chocolate Ganache

Vanilla bundt cake on a white cake stand.
5 from 2 votes
1 hour 10 minutes

A beautiful vanilla bundt cake topped with smooth milk chocolate ganache and finished with colourful sprinkles.

Homemade Cake Release

A jar of homemade cake release, a plain vanilla bundt cake and cake release being crushed onto the inside of a bundt tin.
5 from 2 votes
5 minutes

How to make homemade cake release. Perfect for ensuring your cakes don’t stick in even the trickiest of tins.

Biscoff Cake

4.73 from 29 votes
55 minutes

The ultimate cake for Biscoff lovers. Two layers of Biscoff sponge (which is made with both crushed Biscoff biscuits and Biscoff spread), sandwiched together with Biscoff buttercream and topped with Biscoff biscuits.

PLUS – How to make this cake in any size of round, square or rectangular tin.

Gingerbread Men

Gingerbread men decorated with royal icing on a wire rack.
5 from 4 votes
40 minutes
+ CHILLING 1 hour

How to make perfect gingerbread men (women, children, or whatever shape you like). They’re soft in the middle, crunchy at the edges, packed full of flavour and hold their shape beautifully.

Black Forest Meringues

1 hour 50 minutes

Crisp meringue swirled with dark chocolate, layered together with kirsch-soaked cherries and whipped Chantilly cream.

White Chocolate Cake

A white chocolate cake on a cake stand.
5 from 9 votes
45 minutes

White chocolate cake – A delicious, soft sponge cake packed full of white chocolate chips and topped with smooth white chocolate buttercream.

How To Make Self-Raising Flour From Plain Flour

A half cup and a quarter cup of self-raising flour with baking powder on a silver spoon.
5 from 18 votes
2 minutes

How to make self-raising flour from plain (or all-purpose) flour and baking powder.

Biscoff Cupcakes

A Biscoff cupcake topped with Biscoff buttercream and a Biscoff biscuit. There is a jar of Biscoff spread and a packet of Biscoff biscuits in the background. Behind them are more decorated Biscoff cupcakes.
4.66 from 26 votes
45 minutes

Delicious Biscoff cupcakes (made with both Biscoff biscuits and spread to really pack in the flavour) topped with smooth Biscoff buttercream and finished with a crunchy Biscoff Biscuit.

Biscoff Cheesecake (No-Bake)

4.70 from 10 votes
20 minutes
+ CHILLING 2 hours

A crunchy Biscoff biscuit base, topped with a creamy Biscoff cheesecake filling and finished with swirls of whipped cream, and even more Biscoff biscuits – It’s a Biscoff lovers dream dessert.

Oreo Cheesecake (No-Bake)

A no-bake Oreo cheesecake topped with whipped cream and Oreos.
4.82 from 27 votes
20 minutes
+ CHILLING 2 hours

No-Bake Oreo Cheesecake – A crunchy Oreo base, smooth Oreo cheesecake filling and even more Oreos on top – The ultimate dessert for Oreo lovers!

Grapefruit Curd

Two jars of grapefruit curd surrounded by cut pink grapefruits
15 minutes

How to make delicious, smooth grapefruit curd.

Christmas Amaretti Biscuits

A stack of three Christmas Amaretti Biscuits on a silver dish. The top biscuits is cut in half showing the hidden mincemeat centre.
35 minutes

A festive twist on my classic amaretti biscuits, with spices, brandy, walnuts and a hidden mincemeat centre.

Easy Carrot Cake

Carrot cake topped with cream cheese buttercream and decorated with sugar carrots.
4.67 from 27 votes
1 hour

A delicious spiced carrot cake filled with raisins and topped with smooth cream cheese buttercream.

Chocolate Orange Cake

Chocolate Orange Cake
4.60 from 40 votes
55 minutes

An easy to bake chocolate orange sponge filled with chocolate orange buttercream and topped with slices of Terry’s Chocolate Orange.

PLUS – The ingredients and instructions you need to bake this in pretty much any size of round, square or rectangular tin.

White Chocolate Cheesecake (No-Bake)

No bake white chocolate cheesecake decorated with white and milk chocolate buttons and chocolate sprinkles.
4.75 from 8 votes
20 minutes
+ Chilling 6 hours

A delicious and easy to make no-bake white chocolate cheesecake. A crunchy biscuit base topped with smooth, creamy and indulgent white chocolate.

Lime Curd

Two jars of homemade lime curd.
5 from 5 votes
15 minutes

How to make delicious, smooth lime curd.

Lemon Curd

5 from 11 votes
15 minutes

How to make lemon curd, plus lots of extra tips and tricks to get it just perfect.

Microwave Lemon Curd

Two jars of lemon curd in front of a microwave.
5 from 1 vote
15 minutes

How to made delicious, smooth lemon curd in the microwave.

Easy Lemon Cake (All-In-One Lemon Sponge)

Lemon cake topper with lemon buttercream on a white cake stand.
4.55 from 64 votes
40 minutes

A delicious, moist all-in-one lemon sponge. Perfect for a teatime treat, cake sale or as a birthday or celebration cake.

PLUS – Make this cake in any size of round, square or rectangular tin with my handy ingredients calculator.

Rum & Raisin Cheesecake (No-Bake)

The finished rum & raisin cheesecake on a wooden board. The cheesecake is topped with swirls of whipped cream and scattered rum-soaked raisins.
5 from 4 votes
20 minutes
+ Soaking & Chilling 14 hours

A delicious no-bake cheesecake inspired by the classic ice cream flavour. Packed full of rum-soaked raisins and with a hint of black treacle.

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