BEAUTIFUL BAKING RECIPES

Buttery Biscuit Base

This Buttery Biscuit Base recipe is great as a base recipe for all sorts of biscuits

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 20 Minutes
Grantham Gingerbread Biscuits (Cookies)

Grantham Gingerbread Biscuits (Cookies) are my wife's favourites. She often asks me to cook a batch, then takes them to work with her to pass round!

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 20 Minutes
Spice Bread (Pain d'épices)

Pain d'épice (Spice Bread) is a Christmas favourite in France. It's very similar to a gingerbread loaf, though there are more spices involved.

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 35 Minutes
Baked Leek and Carrot Loaf

Baked Leek and Carrot Loaf is a nice economical recipe since it can be eaten cold or hot. Ideal for vegetarians too.

Preparation: 15 Minutes
Cooking: 50 Minutes
Baked Potatoes (Jacket Potatoes)

A baked potato is a fearsomely versatile and healthy beast! Full of fibre and capable of taking a huge variety of tasty fillings

Preparation: 1 Minute
Cooking: 59 Minutes
Baked Sliced Potatoes

Baked Sliced Potatoes is an easy way to present potatoes with the minimum of fuss.

Preparation: 5 Minutes
Cooking: 1 Hour
Caramel Shortbread

Here's a slightly different angle on Caramel Shortbread (the classic British teatime treat) using salted caramel.

Preparation: 15 Minutes
Cooking: 1 Hour
Chocolate and Nut Snaps

Chocolate and Nut Snaps is a mouth-watering sweet treat of melted chocolate and toasted nuts - topped off with a sprinkling of sea salt.

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 10 Minutes
Chocolate Sandesh

Chocolate Sandesh is a dessert from the Eastern province of West Bengal. Along with Rassagulla this desert nicely rounds off an east Indian meal.

Preparation: 25 Minutes
Cooking: NIL
Christmas Cake - Rich Fruit Cake

No Christmas would be complete without Christmas Cake (or Rich Fruit Cake). With that delicious taste and fragrance of plump dried fruit

Preparation: 45 Minutes
Cooking: 2 Hours 30 Minutes
SuperEasy Chocolate and Walnut Cake

SuperEasy Chocolate & Walnut Cake is a really simple and effective way to produce a tasty cake for dessert, or just to accompany your afternoon cuppa.

Preparation: 15 Minutes
Cooking: 25 Minutes
Double-Take Apple Flan

Double-Take Apple Flan is a winner, no matter what the occasion, and the extra little trouble in preparation and cooking is well worth the effort.

Preparation: 15 Minutes
Cooking: 50 Minutes
Easybake Scones

The Scone is a small British quick bread of Scottish origin. It's not just popular in the United Kingdom, it's also been 'adopted' by other countries.

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 20 Minutes
Ham, Pea and Mint Pasties

Ham, Pea and Mint Pasties are an unusual homemade springtime treat that make a great variation on the traditional Cornish Pasties.

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 1 Hour
Lime Meringue Pie

Lime Meringue Pie is one of those lovely desserts you can eat at any time of year. You can serve it on its own or with a scattering of blueberries.

Preparation: 20 Minutes
Cooking: 20 Minutes
Marshmallow Brownies

Chunks of marshmallow make these Marshmallow Brownies addictively good. Bake up a batch for Halloween or Bonfire Night.

Preparation: 15 Minutes
Cooking: 20 Minutes
Crunchy Honeycomb Biscuits (Cookies)

Crunchy Honeycomb Biscuits are my favourite, having that exquisite blend of 'crunchiness' that separates any home made cookie from a shop-bought one.

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 15 Minutes
Meringues with Clotted Cream and Strawberries

I'm not sure why people always assume that meringues are difficult to make... they're not, as this recipe for Meringues with Clotted Cream will prove.

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 3 Hours
Mini Frittatas

Mini Frittatas is an egg-based Italian dish similar to an omelette or crustless quiche. You'll get about 40 light-bites that are buffet perfect.

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 10 Minutes
Mini Pork Pies with Quails' Eggs

Sometimes, though, a whole pork pie is just too much, and that's when I like to pick up a Mini Pork Pie with Quail's Egg.

Preparation: 30 Minutes
Cooking: 40 Minutes
Mississippi Mud Pie Recipe

Is it a pie or a cake? Who cares? - this recipe for Mississippi Mud Pie is a chocolate-lovers delight. Unless you are watching your weight!!

Preparation: 45 Minutes
Cooking: 50 Minutes
Mother's Oat Cookies

Baking is a culinary skill that sounds complex but is usually horribly easy... and Mother's Oat Cookies is a perfect example of that.

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 15 Minutes
Mum's Chocolate Crunch Cake

Mum's Chocolate Crunch Cake was one of my favourite things when I was young... and, if I'm honest, it still is! It keeps fine for two or three days.

Preparation: 15 Minutes
Cooking: NIL
Parkin

Parkin originated in northern England and is a moist and even sometimes sticky cake traditionally made from oatmeal and molasses.

Preparation: 20 Minutes
Cooking: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Profiteroles in Caramel

If you're not a fan of hot chocolate sauce, Profiteroles in Caramel are a great alternative to Chocolate Profiteroles. AND they just melt in the mouth

Preparation: 20 Minutes
Cooking: 20 Minutes
Profiteroles in Hot Chocolate

If you're a fan of hot chocolate sauce, Profiteroles in hot Chocolate are a great dessert. AND they just melt in the mouth.

Preparation: 20 Minutes
Cooking: 20 Minutes
Rocky Road

Rocky Road seems to be a 'modern' name given to a home make crunchy chocolate "cake" that my mother used to make when we were kids.

Preparation: 15 Minutes
Cooking: NIL
Sally's Short-lived Shortbread

This shortbread is scrummy, more-ish and terrible for your waistline. It also encourages you to sneak into the fridge when no-one is looking.

Preparation: 35 Minutes
Cooking: 25 Minutes
Savoury Cheese Biscuits

Ideal for entertaining, you can load these savoury biscuits with cream cheese or use them as a snack source with a slice of tomato on top.

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 10 Minutes
Savoury Chive Biscuits

Ideal for entertaining, you can load these savoury biscuits with cream cheese or use them as a snack source with a slice of tomato on top.

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 10 Minutes
Scotch Pie

There are some amazing things in Scotland... men in kilts, haggis, deep-fried Mars bars, the Loch Ness Monster and Scotch Pies served with mushy peas!

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 45 Minutes
Shortbread Biscuits

A well known Scottish export, shortbread biscuits are sweet and yummy! This recipe is to make round ones, but you can soon adapt it to make fingers.

Preparation: 10 Minutes
Cooking: 30 Minutes
Rich Cream Scones

These scones get their light flaky texture from the butter that is layered into the dough. An absolute delight with a cup of tea on a summer afternoon

Preparation: 20 Minutes
Cooking: 20 Minutes