Our best cake recipes for every occasion
From a simple sponge cake to the allure of carrot and chocolate creations, these best cake recipes are the ones to turn to.
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Gluten-free cakes so good you won’t even know the difference
Let them all eat cake.
12 of our best semolina recipes
There's much to do with semolina - from golden cakes to saucy bakes.
Spiced pear, buttermilk and almond skillet cake
A one-pan dessert winter warmer to bake the cold-weather blues away.
Say cheese to our best-ever cheesecakes
Separately, cheese and cake hit the spot. Together, they're a match made in heaven.
Pistachio and rose roulade with lychees and raspberries
This elegant dessert combines a light, pistachio-flecked sponge with a decadent chocolate-cream filling.
27 sponge cakes of the light and fluffy kind
Madeleines, roulades, lamingtons – we'll take them all.
Buttermilk and vanilla cake with raspberries
A made-for-picnics cake.
Sixpenny’s carrot cake with candied walnuts
The cake that saved Sixpenny during lockdown.
Rhubarb Louise cake
The New Zealand cake-slice hybrid, reimagined with soft baked rhubarb.