The Bake

Recipes

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

Chocolate celebration cake with berries & macarons (at home)

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 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.