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A collection of british bakes and recipes to inspire your inner baker. Cakes, pies, tarts, cookies and pastries with interesting takes.

Ever wondered what it's like to actually make the recipes from The Great British Baking Show? Here are my tips for a successful bake.

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Episode 2 of The Great British Bake Off was Biscuit Week! We saw the Bakers create an array of unusual flavours for the Signature Bake round where they made sandwich biscuits! For the Technical Challenge, Paul Hollywood set the difficult and fiddly task of creating Fortune Cookies! One of the instructions was “to fold then […]

A step up from the free-and-easy Double Marble Cake, the Battenberg uses colouring in a more precise way to make a pretty cake that looks impressive.

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These pillowy balls of dough are filled with homemade raspberry jam. One of the trickiest things about making doughnuts is the frying time – the sugar in the enriched dough means that they brown very quickly, in turn making it tempting to remove them from the oil before they are cooked in the middle. With that in mind, make sure you fry the doughnuts for at least 2 minutes on each side.

Thought to have first appeared in the 1900s, the custard cream is arguably Britain’s most iconic biscuit. Baking your own, with a silky cream filling, takes our favourite teatime treat to a whole new level of moreish dunk-ability.

The original banoffee pie, a British dessert developed in the 1970s, has a pastry crust, rather than a biscuit base. And that’s exactly how Paul wanted this one ─ a nostalgic take on the original ‘banoffi’ pie, with a beautiful finish that makes it fit for an elegant party dessert.

Transform your kitchen into a Parisian Pâtisserie with this homemade version of the classic French ‘Gâteau Opéra’. Made up of layers of light almond sponge, chocolate ganache and a silky smooth French buttercream, this grown up gâteau is perfect for any special occasion.

A recipe from Prue Leith

The Great British Baking Show judge shares a "melt in your mouth" dessert from his new cookbook A Baker's Life

This twist on a traditional walnut whip hides delicious coffee ganache in a bed of fluffy marshmallow all wrapped in a crisp chocolate shell.

Laughter is the best medicine, but freshly baked bread is a close second.

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Fans of the Great British Baking show will love these 12 tent-worthy recipes, such as traditional bakewell tart, English trifle, sticky toffee pudding, hard ginger nut biscuits, and others.

There are as many versions of this classic of French patisserie as there are cheeses! For this version, Prue has added calvados to the frangipane and put the filling in a pâte brisée shell, for its crumbly, buttery texture.