Cake

This recipe makes two loaves of the spiced German fruit bread - keep one for Christmas Day, and give the other as a gift.

With the Laura chef's dessert, it's Christmas time, every time.

This classic recipe is an excellent introduction to baking.

Pastry chef Catherine Adams takes us through how to make the high-rise cake, step by step.

It's not what you'd call a traditional pound cake. It calls for different quantities of flour, sugar, eggs and butter, but know this – it is delicious.

Sweet yeasted bread studded with fruit? Come Easter, the hot cross buns is one answer. Pastry chef Catherine Adams introduces another, the traditional Easter bread of Russia.