Recipes

Step-by-step baking recipes with built-in timers, serving scalers, and a guided cook mode — everything you need to bake with confidence.

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Classic Victoria Sponge

The cake every British baker should have in their repertoire. Equal weights of four ingredients, one bowl, twenty-five minutes in the oven — and a finish of jam, cream, and a dusting of sugar that has not changed since the Queen it was named for.

40 min8 slices+ 30 min cooling
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Lemon Drizzle Loaf Cake

A buttery lemon loaf finished with a sharp, crunchy lemon-sugar crust that soaks into the warm sponge. Almost the entire trick is poking the holes the moment it leaves the oven.

1h10 slices+ 1h cooling
CakesMedium

Moist Chocolate Fudge Cake

The chocolate cake that defines the term "fudge". Oil instead of butter for tenderness, hot coffee to bloom the cocoa, buttermilk for tang and rise — and a generous fill of chocolate buttercream. Stays soft for four days.

1h12 slices+ 1h 30m cooling
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Classic Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Spiced, oil-based, properly carroty — and topped with the cream cheese frosting that actually pipes. The kind of cake that gets better the day after it is baked.

55 min12 slices+ 1h 30m cooling
CakesMedium

Classic Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

The cake everyone recognises and almost no one gets the texture right on. The trick is the buttermilk-and-vinegar combo that reacts with the bicarbonate to create the signature soft, velvety crumb.

1h12 slices+ 1h 30m cooling
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Classic Coffee and Walnut Cake

The tea-room classic. Coffee-laced sponge, crunchy walnuts, silky coffee buttercream, and walnut halves on top — a cake that tastes far more grown-up than the four ingredients in the sponge suggest.

45 min10 slices+ 1h cooling
CakesMedium

Classic Sticky Toffee Pudding

Dark, sticky, comforting — the British pudding that earns its name from a glossy toffee sauce poured over the warm sponge until it soaks all the way through. Worth every minute.

55 min9 portions+ 5 min cooling
BakesMedium

Traditional Bakewell Tart

Crisp pastry, sharp raspberry jam, soft almond frangipane, and a scatter of flaked almonds on top — the British tea-room classic done the proper way, with every component pulling its weight.

1h 35m10 slices+ 1h cooling
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Classic Vanilla Buttercream

The dependable, do-anything buttercream — pale, silky, and sweet without being cloying. One bowl, four ingredients, ready to pipe in under 10 minutes.

10 min12 cupcakes
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Rich Chocolate Buttercream

The trick to a chocolate buttercream that actually tastes of chocolate: use both cocoa powder and melted dark chocolate. The cocoa brings depth, the chocolate brings the silk.

15 min12 cupcakes
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Stable Cream Cheese Frosting (Pipes Without Slumping)

The cream cheese frosting that finally pipes properly. Cold full-fat block cream cheese, beaten in last — that one switch is the difference between sliding off the cake and holding a clean swirl.

10 min12 cupcakes
FrostingsHard

Silky Swiss Meringue Buttercream

The buttercream that ruins all other buttercreams for you. Glossy, barely-sweet, and so silky it almost feels like custard — the standard for clean wedding-cake finishes and decorator-grade piping.

40 min24 cupcakes
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Chocolate Ganache (with Ratios for Every Use)

Two ingredients, infinite uses — once you know the ratios. Spreadable filling, glossy drip, whippable frosting, or rolled truffles all start from the same simple method: hot cream poured over chopped chocolate.

10 min12 cupcakes+ 1h cooling
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Royal Icing for Cookies and Cake Decorating

One royal icing base, three working consistencies. Stiff for piping borders, medium for outlines, thin for flooding — all from a single batch with a few drops of water.

10 min24 decorated biscuits
BakesMedium

Raspberry Cheesecake Brownies

Fudgy brownie batter meets a swirl of creamy raspberry cheesecake in one irresistible tin. Wait at least 3 hours before cutting — the set and flavour are worth every minute.

1h 6m16 squares+ 3h cooling
CakesHard

New York Baked Cheesecake

Silky, rich, and virtually crack-free — this New York-style cheesecake on a buttery digestive base rewards patience with every single slice. The water bath is simpler than it looks.

1h 50m14 slices+ 5h cooling
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Buttermilk Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Warmly spiced, tender crumb, finished with a thick layer of cream cheese frosting — this one-tin bake is the easiest way to turn overripe bananas into something genuinely impressive.

1h 15m12 slices+ 1h cooling
BakesEasy

Cinnamon Sugar Baked Doughnuts

All the flavour of a classic cinnamon sugar doughnut without the frying. These baked, cake-style rings are rolled in melted butter and cinnamon sugar straight from the oven — ready in under 45 minutes.

30 min8 doughnuts
CakesMedium

Nutella Marble Loaf Cake

Buttery loaf cake batter swirled with generous ribbons of Nutella — baked low and slow so it rises tall and slices cleanly. One of the most rewarding loaf tins you'll ever pull from the oven.

1h 35m9 slices+ 1h cooling