Quick chilli cornbread

This spicy, dense bread is an ideal accompaniment for soup or chowder – it’s ready in less than an hour

Mini Christmas cake

Make our wreath cake (see ‘goes well with’) and use the spare middle section to create a small gift decorated with classic marzipan and fondant icing

Apricot & ratafia sponge cake

A simple fruit cake flavoured with almond and Amaretti biscuits – perfect with tea or as dessert served with cream or custard

Leftover veg & orange cake

A novel way to use up root vegetables is to bake up a sweet, moist sponge with citrus flavours

Chocolate & Earl Grey torte

Never before has it been so easy to impress – this soft-centered torte can be made ahead and frozen or baked from scratch in just an hour

White chocolate chip fudge

Why not make a gift of this indulgent fudge? You can vary it with different types of chocolate to suit different tastes

Lemon curd & blueberry loaf cake

Kids can help make this simple springtime treat – delicious with extra lemon curd and yogurt as a pud, or serve with a cuppa

Chocolate chunk pecan cookies

You can’t beat American-style cookies with big chunks of chocolate and nuts. The perfect grown-up biscuit

Sticky banana & maple cake

This childhood favourite is sticky, indulgent and completely moreish

Rocky robin cake

Get creative with your Christmas cake icing – these robins are super cute and really easy to model

Chocolate brownie chunks with chocolate dip

Pop these
tiny temptations into a low oven to warm
through quickly before serving

Mini chocolate & ginger brownies

A squidgy dark chocolate traybake dotted with spicy crystallised ginger then cut into bitesize squares for the perfect sweet canapé