Cakes and baking
Find cake and baking recipes that the whole family will love. From easy recipes that are the work of minutes to more elaborate baking ideas that taste as good as they look; from party bakes to everyday, quick cakes that are great for afternoon tea, after school snacks and lunch box treats, it’s time to put your pinny on and fill your house with the wonderful aroma of baking. Yum!
Find cake recipes that the whole family will love. From two-ingredient cakes to fruit, chocolate, vanilla and every flavour of cake in between, there are muffins, cupcakes and birthday cakes galore. Time to get baking!
A batch of biscuits or cookies cooling on a wire tray is a lovely treat to come home to. These recipes are a great way to introduce kids to cooking if you can stop them eating the dough! Favourites here are the 3-ingredient biscuits, banana biscuits and muesli cookies.
Bread, be it a loaf or a batch of rolls, is surprisingly easy to make and a nice kitchen activity to get kids involved with. Get started with these tasty recipes including slow cooker bead, 2-ingredient ice cream bread and Irish soda bread.
Whether they’re baked or no-bake, delicately flavoured with vanilla or topped with a fruity layer, cheesecakes are always a hit. Try these delicious cheesecake recipes including no-bake Nutella cheesecake, New York cheesecake and Oreo cheesecake slice.
If you’ve ever rescued a battered banana from the depths of a school bag or found an over-ripe one in the fruit bowl, you’ll love these banana recipes. From banana bread to banana biscuits and banana ice ceam, there’s a way to use up your banana glut, we promise!
Everyone always has room for a cupcake as they’re the perfect size for a lunch box treat or after school snack. Bake a batch of these mini cakes, including quick chocolate cupcakes, basic vanilla cupcakes and red velvet cupcakes, and watch them disappear.
Baking a cake doesn’t have to be complicated. These easy cake recipes are great for when you’re in a hurry or just want to have one in the cake tin for the kids. Our faves? The everyday chocolate cake, orange cake and apple teacake. And yes, we do want a slice!
Muffins are perfect as an after school snack, teatime treat or a lunch box surprise. be they sweet or savoury, there’s a muffin recipe to suit every tastebud and we’ve got them all here. Enjoy basic vanilla muffins, 3-ingredient mini muffins and sneaky pumpkin muffins.
So simple, so quick and easy and no-baking required! These no-bake recipes are delicious and only require a little bit of patience as they chill in the fridge. You can’t beat a no-bake vanilla slice, no-bake trail mix cookies or no-bake Nutella cheesecake now, can you?
If you’re making a tart or a quiche, a pie or a flan, you’ll need to know how to make basic pastry. Find all the pastry recipes you’ll ever need here including sweet shortcrust pastry, savoury shortcrust pastry and choux pastry (should you fancy making some éclairs!).
So quick and simple to make, you can almost have a batch of scones ready in the time it takes you to brew a pot of tea! Bake fruit scones just like Nana used to make, keep the kids busy baking lemonade scones or make some savoury cheesy scones for lunch boxes.
The great thing about slices is that they’re easy to make and simple to transport in their baking tin for slicing and serving later. The no-bake vanilla slice is delicious but then so is the Anzac slice and caramel slice!
When your school or kindy has a bake sale, it’s good to have a go-to, never fail recipe that you can whip up the night before. These cake stall recipes are as easy to make as they are to eat. Try Mars Bar slice, quick chocolate cupcakes or Nutella crumble slice.
