Invisible Apple Cake
Loaded with layers and layers of melt in the mouth, tender, sweet slices of thin apple cooked in a simple, vanilla cake batter, this classic recipe hails from France. More apple than cake and wonderful for dessert,…
Mocha Drizzle Cake with Salted Milk Chocolate Ganache – ‘Marry Me’ Cake
This amazing light, fluffy, moist and buttery mocha sponge is bursting with chocolate and coffee and drizzled with a sweet, coffee syrup. Topped with an unctuous, thick, creamy, dreamy milk chocolate ganache, spiked with sea salt, this…
Sticky Date Cake with Brown Butter and Condensed Milk
Rich, sticky and loaded with dates, prunes, dried vine fruits and warming ginger, this wonderful cake is incredibly moist and bursting with flavour. The condensed milk guarantees the sticky texture, and browning the butter adds a nutty…
Spiced Pumpkin Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
A wonderful moist, soft and fluffy sponge cake, loaded with pumpkin and Autumn spices, swathed in a creamy silky, creamy cheese frosting. This Spiced Pumpkin Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is deceptively easy to make, yet full…
Huffsie Fruited Tea Loaf from Shetland
A fruited tea loaf is a very British bake - dried vine fruits, steeped in our national drink, tea, are cooked with sugar, eggs and flour into a delicious, moist fruit cake. There are many different recipes…
Lemon and Coconut Drizzle Cake – with or without Glacé Cherries
Lusciously lemony, with added coconut, this wonderful, moist cake, which is well over 50 years old, has totally stood the test of time. I found the recipe in my grandmother's cookery book, hand written by my Aunty…
Dark Chocolate and Courgette Loaf
This rich chocolate sponge, loaded with grated courgette and chunks of chopped dark chocolate, is light and fluffy but also, intense in flavour. You really would not know you are eating courgette; it dissolves into the cake…
Pink Grapefruit Drizzle Cake
Light, fluffy, moist and buttery sponge loaf bursting with pink grapefruit flavour, drizzled with a sweet and tangy pink grapefruit syrup and topped with a crispy, zesty pink grapefruit icing. Fresh and delicious, it is no surprise…
Buckingham Palace Tea Bread
If you are planning to do some baking for King Charles' coronation this weekend, I guarantee that you cannot go wrong with this Tea Bread. I found the recipe on the Royal Collection Trust website. Made with…
Barmbrack – Báirín Breac
Báirín Breac, also known as Barmbrack, is literally translated as Speckled Loaf. It is a moist Irish fruit loaf cooked with delicious spices and loaded with dried vine fruits. More of a cake than bread these days,…