Cakes

• 1 Crunchy Cookie Cake
  Dish type: Dessert  Serves 12 Preparation time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 15 minutes Ingredients 50g unsalted butter, softened 100g light muscovado sugar 1 medium egg 150g self-raising flour ½...

• 2 Chocolate treats to bake up a storm in the kitchen this National Baking Day
  In case you ever needed an excuse to bake up sweet delights such as cookie cake, brownies, flapjacks or crunchy cupcakes, now you have one. World Baking Day on Sunday is the perfect time to embrace your...

• 3 Celebrate Easter with healthier versions of classic recipes
  Following a healthy diet doesn't have to mean missing out on treats over the Easter weekend. Whether you're looking to keep sugar to minimum or cut back on gluten, we have a delicious tea time recipe for...

• 4 Delia Smith's brazil nut brownie recipe
  Dish type: Cake Brownies need introducing to those who have not yet made them. Yes, they are cakes but not in the conventional sense. They are supposed to be moist and squashy, and although they won’t...

• 5 Delia Smith's double lemon drizzle cake
  Dish type: Cake This is the definitive Lemon Drizzle cake, and we have used four lemons. There's almost as much drizzle as cake, so after you bite through the crunchy crust it is very lemony and syrupy...

• 6 From Fondant Fancies to an Elizabeth Sponge, have a whirl at great British baking
  After the mouthwatering final of this year's Great British Bake Off, we've become inspired to do more celebrating of 2012 being a year synonymous with all things British. And with the Queen's Diamond...

• 7 Peanut butter and jam cupcakes
  These yummy cupcakes are so easy - perfect for kids and grown-ups alike. Plus there's the added excitement of seeing the jam ooze out of the middle when you bite! Makes 10 Preparation time: 15 mintues Cooking...

• 8 Spiced Beetroot and Apple Muffins with Crunchy Hazelnut Topping
  Dish type: Muffin Add a bit of spice and colour to your teatime with these muffins from www.lovebeetroot.co.uk Makes: 12 Preparation time: 20 minutes Cooking time: 20 minutes    ...

• 9 The Ultimate Chocolate and Beetroot Cake
  Dish type: Cake Serves 8, makes 1 generous cake   Preparation time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 50 minutes   Ingredients: 250g plain cooked (vacuum packed) beetroot, drained & pureed...

• 10 Time for tea
  Bea’s of Bloomsbury now sits in the realms of London institution. Rarely a day goes by without mention from one lucky so and so or other of their fantastic baked good that are sold in one of their...

• 11 Shamrock cupcakes
  Ingredients (Makes 24) 200g/7oz caster sugar 200g/7oz soft butter 4 medium eggs 200g/7oz self-raising flour 1 tsp Irish cream liqueur (optional) For the shamrock icing ...

• 12 Toffee pear muffins
  Ingredients (Makes 12) 150g/5oz butter 150ml/¼pt milk 3 large eggs 8 tbsp dulce de leche 100g/4oz light brown soft sugar, plus extra for sprinkling 300g/11oz self-raising...

• 13 Shelling out
  When making cakes, meringues or batter there’s rarely an occasion when a smidgen of shell doesn’t wend its way into the mixture and try as you might, trying to get it out with your fingers...

• 14 Fruit got that sinking feeling?
  If you’ve ever made a cake containing dried fruit or nuts and been a little disappointed when they’ve all sunk to the bottom then there’s a quick and easy fix for you. Just dust the fruit...

• 15 Peggy Porschen shows some real cake chic
  Peggy Porschen is best known as cake maker to the stars, having made spectacular cakes for the likes of Elton John, Stella McCartney and Madonna. Her third book, Cake chic, sees her teaching the art of...

• 16 Ingredient of the week: Eggs
  The egg has virtually no equal in the kitchen. It ticks all the right boxes – healthy, inexpensive, delicious – and features in almost all the world's cuisines, from Western cakes to Asian...