1. Simple carrot cake
This simple carrot cake is the final word weekend bake to get pleasure from with a day cuppa. The sponge is frivolously spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg and a touch of orange zest. Unfold a beneficiant dollop of frosting excessive and enhance with chopped walnuts.
When you’re plant-based, worry not: we even have our vegan carrot cake with coconut and cashew icing to please you. Or discover extra enjoyable carrot concepts with our assortment of carrot cake recipes.
2. Vegan banana bread
Deplete some blackening bananas with this straightforward, vegan recipe. Toast thick slices and unfold with peanut butter or jam to maintain you going over the lengthy weekend.
We even have our traditional banana bread if you wish to hold issues conventional, in addition to our assortment of banana bread recipes together with an indulgent sticky toffee hybrid.
3. Chocolate fudge crinkle biscuits
Our top-rated chocolate fudge crinkle biscuits are good for emergency candy cravings – they’re easy, fast and use storecupboard components. The crinkle impact comes from coating the cookie dough in icing sugar earlier than baking.
For extra speedy and easy treats, try our fast cake recipes, together with a microwave espresso & walnut cake and simple chocolate cupcakes.
4. Simple blondies
A batch of those foolproof blondies are assured to brighten the lengthy weekend. The gooey, golden squares are made further particular with moreish chunks of white chocolate dotted all through. They’re going to hold in an hermetic container for 3 days or you’ll be able to freeze them for later.
When you’re extra into the brownie selection, take a flick thru our assortment of brownie recipes – it will be laborious to withstand making our gooey salted caramel brownies.
5. Basic cheese scones
Change up the candy bakes for these savoury cheese scones. Our extremely rated recipe is assured to be successful with the entire household. Use mature cheddar and add a pinch of cayenne pepper for a delicate warming kick. They’re nice served alongside soups and you may freeze them for later use.
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When you’re a day tea addict, we have our favorite non-traditional scone recipes which you will fall in love with. We do after all have our ever-popular traditional scones, piled excessive with jam and clotted cream.
6. Caramel apple cinnamon buns
Channel the flavours of a toffee apple with these decadent cinnamon rolls, topped with comfortable cheese frosting and salted caramel. Unfold a easy dough with cinnamon butter and stewed apple items. Roll into a good spiral, lower into slices and bake till golden brown.
When you just like the sound of the above, we’ve lots extra sticky and candy bun recipes so that you can get pleasure from: see our cinnamon pecan sticky buns, sourdough cinnamon buns and sticky date buns.
7. Simple lemon layer cake
Lemon cake was made for afternoon tea on a financial institution vacation weekend. Golden, citrussy sponge is drenched in lemon drizzle and topped with creamy, candy comfortable cheese icing and candied lemon zest.
When you’re an enormous fan of lemon-flavoured desserts, we’ve lots extra lemon cake recipes so that you can attempt, together with these fluffy lemon & poppyseed cupcakes.
8. Chewy chocolate chip cookies
You do not want many components to make this straightforward cookie dough, which is greatest left in a single day earlier than baking for the optimum flavour and texture. Ten minutes within the oven and also you’re rewarded with crispy-on-the-outside, chewy-on-the-inside cookies.
Fulfill your cookie craving with our simple cookie recipes, from chocolate chunk pecan cookies to vegan peanut butter cookies and extra…
9. Simple caramel cake
This attractive caramel cake screams ‘lengthy weekend’. Fabulously foolproof and irresistibly indulgent, it is also fast and makes use of storecupboard components. For chocolate lovers, add three tablespoons of cocoa to the cake batter and drizzle over melted and cooled chocolate as an alternative of caramel.
For extra gooey caramel bakes, try our assortment of the perfect caramel bakes together with our epic caramel-drizzled banoffee bake and caramel ardour fruit slice.
10. Faculty-days sprinkle sponge
This financial institution vacation, make a journey down reminiscence lane with a traditional school-days cake, topped with colored sprinkles and served with a dollop (or two) of heat custard.
We’ve got lots extra nostalgic retro truffles so that you can re-discover: how does this black forest arctic roll sound?
11. Cheese & pesto whirls
These tacky tear & share whirls are perfect for packing right into a picnic. Fill the dough with contemporary pesto, sundried tomatoes, grated mozzarella, parmesan and a handful of basil leaves.
Check out extra of our savoury baking recipes, overlaying all method of tacky bakes reminiscent of our tacky sausage rolls and gruyère & onion tear & share.
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