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)
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.
Vegan Birthday Cake (Vegan Vanilla Sponge Cake)
40 minutes
A light, fluffy sponge packed with vanilla flavour. It’s also perfect for covering with fondant icing to make a birthday or celebration cake.
Easy Lemon Cheesecake (No Bake)
15 minutes
+ Chilling 2 hours
A delicious lemon cheesecake with a crunchy biscuit base that’s absolutely packed full of flavour from the fresh lemon zest and juice.
Creme Egg Cake
1 hour
Creme Egg Cake – A very chocolatey chocolate cake, with smooth white chocolate buttercream and plenty of Cadbury Creme Eggs.
Savoury Lunchbox Muffins from Get Your Kids To Eat Anything
35 minutes
Irresistible muffins, packed with vegetables, cheese, sage and cumin, these are perfect to make at the weekend and then enjoy in packed lunches.
PLUS – Win a copy of Get Your Kids To Eat Anything by Emily Leary.
Whiskey Buttercream
10 minutes
Smooth sweet buttercream with a delicious kick of Whiskey.
White Chocolate Mini Egg Cheesecake (No-Bake)
20 minutes
PLUS Chilling 2 hours
A delicious, smooth no-bake white chocolate cheesecake, packed full of Cadbury Mini Eggs and topped with even more Mini Eggs – the perfect Easter dessert.
Lemon Cupcakes
35 minutes
Moist lemon cupcakes topped with smooth lemon buttercream and filled with a hidden lemon curd centre.
Lemon Buttercream
10 minutes
Two different versions of my delicious lemon buttercream – one made with fresh lemons (juice and zest) and another made with either lemon extract or oil. Perfect for decorating cakes and cupcakes or filling biscuits and macarons.
M&Ms Cookies (With Extra Chocolate Chips)
23 minutes
PLUS Chilling 1 hour
A twist on my classic chocolate chip cookies with added colour and crunch from M&Ms (or Smarties).
Easy Coffee Cake
55 minutes
A delicious all-in-one coffee sponge topped with smooth coffee buttercream. Simple to make and packed full of flavour.
PLUS – How to make this cake in any size of round, square or rectangular tin.
Easy Chocolate Cake
55 minutes
An easy chocolate cake that’s moist, delicious and packed full of chocolate.
It can be made in any size of round, square or rectangular tin so you can use whatever tins you have in the cupboard, and can feed a few or a whole crowd.
Ginger Cheesecake (No-Bake)
20 minutes
PLUS Chilling 2 hours
A crunchy biscuit base with a smooth ginger cheesecake filling and plenty of chopped stem ginger running through it, topped with swirls of whipped cream and grated dark chocolate.
Beef and Pickled Walnut Pie with a Cheesy Flaky Pastry Crust
2 hours 45 minutes
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A rich and delicious beef, mushroom and pickled walnut pie topped with a homemade cheesy flaky pastry crust.
Chocolate Orange Cheesecake
30 minutes
PLUS Chilling 2 hours
A delicious and easy to make no-bake dessert. A smooth chocolate orange flavoured cheesecake topped with swirls of white chocolate orange cheesecake and slices of Chocolate Orange. A dessert lover’s dream.
Vegan Vanilla Cupcakes
35 minutes
These vegan vanilla cupcakes are easy to make and taste delicious. No one would guess that they’re egg and dairy-free.
Carrot Cake Cupcakes
45 minutes
Delicious spiced carrot cake cupcakes topped with smooth cream cheese buttercream.
Cream Cheese Buttercream
5 minutes
How to make delicious cream cheese buttercream perfect for decorating carrot cakes and red velvet cakes.
Grams to Cups Conversions Calculator
Easily convert between grams, cups, ounces and millilitres for many popular baking ingredients with this interactive calculator.
40 Amazing Lemon Recipes
All the sweet recipes a lemon lover needs. There’s big cakes, small cakes, scones, biscuits and much more.
Triple Chocolate Cookies
29 minutes
Chilling (Minimum) 1 hour
The ultimate chocolate fix in biscuit form. Milk chocolate cookies with plenty of milk and dark chocolate chunks – Delicious!
Easy Lemon Drizzle Cupcakes
35 minutes
Lemon drizzle cupcakes that are easy to make and absolutely jam-packed with flavour.
How To Get My Birthday Cake Recipe To Fit Your Tin and Other FAQs
This vanilla cake calculator will give you the ingredients you need for any size of tin as well as the answers to lots of other FAQs to help you get your cake just right.
Chocolate Chip Cookies (That The Cookie Monster Would Love!)
24 minutes
+ CHILLING 1 hour
Delicious chunky chocolate chip cookies that the cookie monster would go crazy for. Soft in the middle, crunchy at the edges and packed full of milk chocolate chunks.
PLUS – how to revive a cookie that’s gone soft and how to bake these cookies from frozen.
Chocolate Birthday Cake Calculator
For those times that you need chocolate cake but you can’t find a tin the right size in your cupboard.
Lemon Amaretti Biscuits
35 minutes
Delicious soft centred Lemon Amaretti Biscuits. So easy to make, crisp on the outside, chewy in the middle and packed with lemon flavour. They’re naturally gluten-free too.
Homemade Custard
15 minutes
STOP! Don’t buy ready made custard. It’s really simple to make vanilla custard at home from simple everyday ingredients.
Sticky Gingerbread Cupcakes
35 minutes
These delicious sticky gingerbread cupcakes are made with ground ginger, chopped stem ginger and brushed with ginger syrup so they’re packed full of flavour and perfectly moist. The ideal treat for any gingerbread lovers.
How Much Fondant Do I Need To Cover My Cake?
One question I get asked quite regularly is “how much fondant do I need to buy to cover my cake?” So I decided to create a calculator where you enter the size of your cake and it’ll give you an estimate of the amount needed.