45+ Easy Baking Recipes
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45+ Easy Baking Recipes
There's been a marked increase in the amount of people baking at home recently. No wonder, it's very therapeutic and provides a much needed distraction at a time like this. However, since certain ingredients are harder to obtain these days, we recognise the demand for low-ingredient or storecupboard ingredient orientated recipes.
We have collected our favourite easy or low ingredient bakes. From bread to crumbles, and cakes to cookies, there are plenty of recipes to get you started on your baking journey!
Once you've mastered these recipes, why not get creative and start swapping out certain ingredients that you don't have, for ones that you do! We have noted on the recipes that this can be done with. For example, brownies, apple crumble and jam sponge pudding to name a few.
Use this time to become and expert and hone in on your skills. We have written a few guides to help you perfect your recipes;
- 6 of the most common mistakes when baking bread
- 12 of the most common cake baking mistakes fixed
- Cake decorating: 3 expert tips
Can't get hold of eggs? No problem, we have you covered.
It's time to get baking!
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Peanut Butter Loaf Cake
A light loaf perfect for any peanut butter addicts! We’ve added a jam drizzle, but leave out if you like for an unadulterated peanut butter hit.
Recipe: Peanut Butter Loaf Cake
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Any Way You Want Cookies
A fantastic cookie dough that you can adapt to make your favourite flavour cookies – with crisp outsides and chewy middles.
Recipe: Any Way You Want Cookies
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Chocolate Orange Pudding Recipe
This self-saucing orange pudding is a real treat! It’s the perfect way to end your Sunday lunch.
Recipe: Chocolate Orange Pudding Recipe
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Three Ingredient Chocolate Oreo Fudge
This easy 3 ingredient fudge requires no scales – most chocolate comes in 100g or 200g bars, so you can add it without needing to weigh it.
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Layered Cinnamon Scones
Best eaten on the day they’re made (or frozen to enjoy later), these easy scones are so fluffy and light they’ll make breakfast or tea into the highlight of your day.
Recipe: Layered Cinnamon Scones
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Self-saucing Biscoff Pudding
When combined with a couple of basic ingredients, you won’t believe that Biscoff spread turns into this gloriously gooey and fluffy pudding, but it really works!
Recipe: Self-saucing Biscoff Pudding
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Three-ingredient lemon pudding
A surprise ingredient makes this saucy lemon pudding really flavoursome!
Recipe: Three-Ingredient Lemon pudding
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Easy Chocolate Fudge Cake Traybake
A chocolate traybake perfect for a birthday cake, celebration cake or something for a bake sale; it's a total crowd-pleaser!
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Apple and Raspberry Tarte Tatin
This simplified version of the French classic makes a stunning finish to any meal.
Recipe: Apple and Raspberry Tarte Tatin
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Easy Jam Sponge Pudding
Try this easy sponge pudding recipe that's the ideal dessert for when it's cold outside.
Recipe: Easy Jam Sponge Pudding
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Three-ingredient Biscoff tray bake
This Biscoff tray bake cake is probably the simplest bake you’ll ever make - it only has three ingredients!
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Chocolate Apple Betty
A classic American pudding, easy to make and a joy to eat.
Recipe: Chocolate Apple Betty
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Honey and Spice Loaf
This loaf cake cuts beautifully and is at its best when spread with butter and served with a cup of tea.
Recipe: Honey and Spice Loaf
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Lucky Dip Cookies
Mix and match treats to create your own personalised cookie – use anything from chocolate chunks to dried fruit and nuts… Even pretzels!
Recipe: Lucky Dip Cookies
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Bread and Butter Pudding
Comforting and perfect for autumn, this is our classic bread and butter pudding recipe.
Recipe: Bread and Butter Pudding
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Brown Sesame Soda Bread
Making bread can be a faff - but this yeast-free loaf is in the oven in minutes.
Recipe: Brown Sesame Soda Bread
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Three-ingredient Orange Loaf Cake
This cake recipe only needs three ingredients and it's also egg-free.
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Easy Lemon Drizzle Traybake
This simple, classic cake is a perennial favourite and is perfect for feeding a crowd or whipping up for a bakesale.
Recipe: Easy Lemon Drizzle Traybake
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Cheat's Lemonade Scones
The easiest scone recipe ever, using just three ingredients.
Recipe: Cheat's Lemonade Scones
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Easy Carrot Cake Traybake
This fail-safe carrot cake is delightfully soft and fluffy and perfect when you have lots of guests to feed.
Recipe: Easy Carrot Cake Traybake
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Three-ingredient Chocolate Cake
This light cake is like a set mousse – you can even hear the bubbles pop as you slice it! We recommend using Green & Black’s chocolate, as it has the right percentage of cocoa solids.
Recipe: Three-ingredient Chocolate Cake
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Cookies and Milk
Chewy and certainly chocolatey, these nostalgic canapés are sure to bring a smile to your guests’ faces
Recipe: Cookies and Milk
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Easy Chocolate Cupcakes
These yummy chocolate cupcakes are simple to make and only take 35 minutes.
Recipe: Easy Chocolate Cupcakes
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Coffee and Walnut Cake
We gave this classic combination a flavourful twist with ground cafetière coffee and icing in the cake mixture.
Recipe: Coffee and Walnut Cake
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Three-ingredient Apple Tarts
So delicious and impressive, your guests will never know you took shortcuts! These taste great with a ball of vanilla ice cream or some pouring cream.
Recipe: Three-ingredient Apple Tarts
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Plum and Almond Tray Bake
Serve this tray bake cake recipe at room temperature with a cup of tea, or warm with ice cream for a comforting dessert.
Recipe: Plum and Almond Tray Bake
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Baked Chocolate Cheesecake
Recipe: Baked Chocolate Cheesecake
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Three-ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
These quick peanut butter cookies are the perfect treat when you need something sweet in no time at all. They’re also gluten and dairy-free!
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Easy Easter Simnel cake
If you're not in the mood to create a full simnel cake, this easy traybake is ideal.
Recipe: Easy Easter Simnel cake
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Lemon Drizzle Cake
This lemon drizzle cake recipe is an absolute classic. This version is also gluten-free.
Recipe: Lemon Drizzle Cake
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Easy Chocolate Cake
Perfect for birthdays, this foolproof chocolate cake is indulgent and impressive.
Recipe: Easy Chocolate Cake
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Three-ingredient Chocolate Orange Cake
This chocolate orange cake, from Sarah Rainey's Three Ingredient Baking recipe book, is gooey and decadent.
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Lemon and Poppy Seed Cake
Made with yogurt, this failsafe lemon and poppyseed bake is easy to master and a true classic.
Recipe: Lemon and Poppy Seed Cake
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Brown Bloomer
A wonderful bread for everyday. Letting the dough rise twice before the prove helps to give it a lighter texture.
Recipe: Brown Bloomer
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Chocolate Oat Biscuits
These oaty treats are set to become a tea-time must-have
Recipe: Chocolate Oat Biscuits
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Courgette Cake
This delicious courgette cake recipe will take just over an hour to make.
Recipe: Courgette Cake
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Ultimate Chocolate Brownies
Looking for the perfect brownie recipe - glossy on top, and dense and fudgy in the centre? Look no further that this classic bake.
Recipe: Ultimate Chocolate Brownies
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Easy all in one banana bread
This banana bread recipe requires minimum effort. Put all the ingredients into the food processor and whiz before baking.
Recipe: Easy all in one banana bread
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Apple Crumble
Is there a more comforting dessert recipe than apple crumble with lashings of custard? This recipe couldn't be easier.
Recipe: Apple Crumble
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Cheat’s Chocolate Cake
This delicious chocolate cake is simple to make, using only 4 ingredients.
Recipe: Cheat’s Chocolate Cake
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Marshmallow Melts
A delicious vanilla biscuit with melted marshmallow in the buttercream, which firms to a glossy, decadent filling.
Recipe: Marshmallow Melts
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White Bread
Watch our step-by-step video to find out the secret to making perfect bread.
Recipe: White Bread
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3-ingredient Nutella brownies
The easiest fudgy brownie you could imagine. Bake for longer to make a light chocolate hazelnut cake.
Recipe: 3-ingredient Nutella brownies
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Nutella Sandwich Cookies
Simply stir together 3 ingredients to make these super easy cookies.
Recipe: Nutella Sandwich Cookies
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Biscoff and Cinnamon Apple Puff Pockets
These mini apple pies are cooked with Biscoff spread so they have a wonderful spiced biscuit flavour throughout. Be careful when tucking in, as the filling gets very hot!
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