Baking

Recipes, cooking tips and ideas for cakes, breads, tarts and other baked dishes

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...

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Gluten-free lemon drizzle cake

Dish type: Muffins Serves 6 Ingredients 2 happy eggs 250g gluten-free self raising flour 120ml milk 100g caster sugar 150g butter 1 small punnet blueberries Method 1. Mix the butter and caster sugar...

Gluten-free caramelised blueberry tart

Dish type: Dessert The brittle sugared top on this purple-juiced blueberry tart is a perfect contrast to the softly set cinnamon custard. Serves: 6-8 Prep time: 30 minutes Cooking time 45-50 minutes Ingredients For...

Gluten-free banana coconut bread

Dish type: Baking Ingredients 1 ripe banana, mashed 8 eggs ½ cup TIANA coconut milk ½ cup TIANA Organic Raw Crystallised Coconut Nectar ½ teaspoon vanilla extract ½ teaspoon...

Gluten-free coconut chocolate brownies

Dish type: Baking Ingredients 70 grams of sifted TIANA coconut flour 76g of butter or TIANA Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil 64g of cocoa powder 6 eggs 250g TIANA Organic Raw Crystallised Coconut Nectar 1/2...

Gwyneth Paltrow's sweet potato and five spice muffins

Makes 12 muffins Preparation time 1 1/4 hrs Cooking time 20-25 minutes Ingredients • 1 large sweet potato • 100ml/4fl oz extra virgin olive oil • 100ml/4fl oz unsweetened almond...

Nadia Sawalha's low-sugar hot cross buns

Dish type: Baking Although easy to make, you’ll need to allow plenty of time to prove these spicy buns – they’re made using a rich, fruity bread dough which takes longer to rise than...

Nadia Sawalha's low-sugar St Clement's cakes

Dish type: Cake Serves 6 Prep time: 20 minutes Cooking time: 20 minutes Nutritional information: 183kcals per serving Ingredients 1 large satsuma or tangerine 175g self-raising flour 25g ground almonds 1/2...

Gluten-free Easter simnel cake

Dish type: Cake This Simnel cake recipe, from Doves Farm, uses gluten-free flour but no eggs, milk or dairy products. A traditional part of the traditional Easter celebration, Simnel cakes are a spicy...

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...

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...

Irish Soda Bread recipe

Preparation time: 15 minutes / Cooking time: 30 minutes, plus cooling Makes 1 loaf Approximate cost of total ingredients (without salmon & dill): £2.28 Calories per serving (1/10th of loaf,...

Tenderstem Broccoli and Seafood Pie

Dish type: Pie, Fish This creamy, comforting pie is wonderfully versatile, as it’s simple enough to serve as a family supper or Sunday lunch, yet impressive enough to serve as a dinner party main...

Tenderstem Broccoli, Shallot, Sweetcorn and Tarragon Butterbean Pot Pies

Dish type: Pie Individual puff pastry pies that can be made ahead, chilled and baked to order Makes 4 pies (more if you use smaller dishes for children) Preparation time 25 minutes Cooking time 20...

Puy Lentil, Coconut and Goat’s Cheese Bake

Dish type: Main course Serves 4 Ingredients 125g (4oz/scant ²/³ cup) Puy lentils 100g (3½oz) butternut squash, diced 3 tbsp olive oil 2 garlic cloves 200ml (7fl oz/generous ¾ cup)...

Adam Gray’s hot turkey and onion tart with Stilton cheese

Dish type: Starter Serves 4 Ingredients 4 sheets puff pastry 400g onion marmalade 200g Stilton 200g turkey, cooked 1 bunch rocket 100ml rapeseed oil Method 1. Preheat the oven to 220°C/Gas mark 7....

Shaun Rankin’s Chocolate Soufflé with Christmas pudding ice cream

Dish Type: Dessert Serves 6 Ingredients Ice cream 4 egg yolks 90g caster sugar 250ml milk 250ml whipping cream 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 vanilla pod, split 150g christmas pudding Soufflé 3 eggs 85g...