The Bake

Recipes

Free recipes — the heart of the site. Metric-first, allergens flagged, and written to follow hands-free.

Bakery-style chocolate chip cookies

Thick, soft-centred bakery-style chocolate chip cookies — white or milk choc — with the fridge-rest trick that stops them spreading.

Soft, warmly spiced carrot cupcakes crowned with tangy cream cheese frosting — an easy oil-based batter, no mixer needed.

A rich chocolate celebration cake under glossy ganache, crowned with strawberries and macarons — a proper centrepiece you can make at home.

A tender, buttery banana loaf made with spotty bananas — a simple cream-and-fold method, plus the wet-paper trick that stops the top over-browning.

A simple, moist one-tin lemon and blueberry cake with a drizzle that soaks in — plus the flour trick that stops the berries sinking.

A zesty three-layer lemon cake with raspberry jam and buttercream, topped with red-swirled meringue kisses. A proper celebration bake.

A creamy no-bake mango cheesecake on a buttery biscuit base, finished with a glossy blended-mango top. No gelatine, no oven.

A chocolate sponge layered with Oreo buttercream, a dark chocolate drip and Oreos on top — the cookies-and-cream cake, made at home.

Soft, jammy peaches and berries under a craggy, scone-like topping — an easy, forgiving pudding for whatever fruit needs using up.

Master French macarons with a raspberry ganache — the macaronage "lava" test, resting for feet, and how to fix cracks and hollows.

Classic red velvet cupcakes with tangy cream cheese frosting, crowned with a matching mini macaron — a bakery-window finish at home.

Soft, cocoa-tinged red velvet cookies loaded with white chocolate and caramel — an easy, handheld take on the classic cake.

A press-in crust, a sharp lemon filling and high, torched meringue swirls — a showstopper tart that's simpler than it looks.