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Say it with flours: baking recipes to gift this Mother’s Day

The best kind of Mother's Day gift is the sweet and edible kind.
Apple-caramel sponge pudding

Apple-caramel sponge pudding

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Baked goods are the best presents to gift Mum this Mother’s Day. Whether you’re planning on baking her a warming pudding recipe or want to share a freshly baked batch of choc-chip peanut butter cookies, these baking recipes make for sweet – and touching – Mother’s Day presents.

Here’s a list of our favourite baking recipes for Mother’s Day.

Photo: Rob Shaw

How to make (and say) kouign-amann

Photo: Teny Aghamalian

Our best bread and butter recipe (and a short history, too)

Photo: John Paul Urizar

Cinnamon myrtle-spiced sticky date pudding with macadamia brittle

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Bethany Finn’s lemon delicious pudding

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Lemon meringue pie

Photo: Con Poulos

Rhubarb Louise cake

Photo: Benito Martin

Sixpenny’s carrot cake with candied walnuts

Photo: Rob Shaw

Easy choc-chip peanut butter cookies

Photo: Chris Chen

A no-bake strawberry crème fraîche cheesecake

Photo: William Meppem

Apple-caramel sponge pudding

Photo: John Paul Urizar

Mat Lindsay’s guide to making a Basque cheesecake

Photo: William Meppem

Spiced Fuji apple crumble with dulce de leche ice-cream

Photo: Vanessa Levis

Cassata

Lemon dream
Photo: William Meppem

Flour and Stone’s lemon dream cake

Ricotta-polenta cake with lemon-rosemary syrup
Photo: William Meppem

Ricotta-polenta cake with lemon-rosemary syrup

Chocolate, clementine and aniseed zaletti
Photo: Mark Roper

Agostino’s chocolate, clementine and aniseed zaletti

Pear tarte Tatin
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Corella pear tarte Tatin

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Lime and vanilla yo-yos with passionfruit curd

Fennel and orange sugared brioche
Photo: William Meppem

Fennel and orange sugared brioche

A two-layer carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, topped with walnuts, on a wooden cake stand. A thick triangle slice of carrot cake is in the foreground, on the left.
Photo: Benito Martin

Sixpenny’s carrot cake with candied walnuts

Hentley Farm's Kitchener buns recipe
Photo: Ben Hansen

Hentley Farm’s Kitchener buns

Photo: Con Poulos

Lemon verbena custard slice with passionfruit

Rhubarb and apple pie with warm cinnamon custard
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Rhubarb and apple pie with warm cinnamon custard

Aaron Turner's Mum's chocolate ripple cake
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Aaron Turner’s Mum’s chocolate ripple cake

Photo: Con Poulos

Rhubarb Louise cake

Alistair Wise's custard tart
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Alistair Wise’s custard tart

Photo: Chris Chen

Orange and almond shortbread

Rhubarb galette
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Rhubarb galette

Photo: Mikkel Vang

Chocolate scrolls

Photo: Mikkel Vang

Chocolate and salted macadamia cookies

Photo: Chris Chen

White chocolate and raspberry ice-cream choux stack

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Mandarin-glazed cookies

Chocolate and buttermilk slab cake - the best recipes of 2018
Photo: William Meppem

Chocolate and buttermilk slab cake

A round, crusty apple pie with a slice taken out of it, sitting on a light-blue linen tablecloth, with golden forks and a tumbler of amber-hued liquid to the side
Photo: Phillip Castleton

Apple pie

Six twisted buns, dusted with icing sugar, on a black background.
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Sweet cinnamon buns

Six round apple buns on baking paper on a metal tray, held by a woman's hands painted with black nail polish
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Apple spice buns

Cardamom nut cake
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Cardamom nut cake

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