I love a fancy cake as much as the next aspiring baker. But the simplicity of a perfectly made Butter Cake is one of life’s true pleasures. Real comfort food. Grandma would be proud.
Butter Cake (like Grandma’s)

I love a fancy cake as much as the next aspiring baker. But the simplicity of a perfectly made Butter Cake is one of life’s true pleasures. Real comfort food. Grandma would be proud.
A Cocoa Chocolate Cake recipe for a basic, reliable, good old fashioned chocolate cake. There’s no fussing here – it’s the perfect chocolate cake really.
Fabulously decadent combination. There’s something about smothering cheesecake (white chocolate cheesecake at that) in a rich caramel sauce that makes my heart flutter.
Pear and blackberry is a wonderful flavour combination that gets even better with baking. Something magical happens when you bake these fruits. The intensity of their flavours increases dramatically and makes for one very tasty upside-down cake.
Gorgeous Earl Grey Cake recipe this time with Lady Grey Tea. With the most magnificent, delicate rosewater icing. A very elegant cake indeed.
A gorgeous Almond Raspberry Cake recipe that just melts in your mouth. Made without egg yolk or butter it is a deliciously moist, airy and light cake. And you do it all in one bowl. Perfect.
Sometimes I crave a light and fluffy banana cake like this one. Easy to make (usually from the kitchen pantry) and wonderfully satisfying.
Everyone needs a great basic Yellow Cake recipe like this. With a brilliant trick to add extra moisture into your cake layers. Absolutely inspired.
Super easy tea cake. Full of flavour and texture with a healthy (well healthier) twist. Delicious.
This cake is perfect when you need an easy, big, delicious cake to feed the masses.
In this lovely cake recipe, the caramelised clementines play a starring role. They really lift the almond cake and provide a sweet citrus burst that makes you stop and take notice.
Fresh juicy cherries and an Italian meringue buttercream frosting take this chocolate cake to new levels of decadence.
Caramel cake, caramel filling, caramel buttercream frosting – that’s a lot of caramel in one spectacular cake. Delicious.
It seems no one can agree what a traditional recipe for Victoria Sponge actually involves. Cream or no cream? Raspberry jam or strawberry? Icing sugar only?
There’s something deliciously childish about including peanut butter in a cake recipe. Deliciously childish and delightfully grown-up. A star of a cake.
If you’re a lime cake fan, you’ll love this recipe for Coconut and Lime Cake with Macadamia Nuts. Fresh, tangy and delicious.
This cake is all about the peaches. Make sure your peaches are ripe, sweet and juicy for maximum deliciousness.
In this moist cake the natural lusciousness of fresh figs is spiked by the tartness of raspberries. With some hazelnuts for good measure. Delicious.
Don’t be fooled by this pure, white, innocent looking cake – it’s rich, intense and decadent.
Two and a half pounds of cream cheese. No wonder it’s so good.
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