Sweet recipes, including cakes, tiffins, cheesecakes, trifles & more
This is my take on the Royal Wedding lemon and elderflower drizzle cake. We were going to an all-day party to celebrate Harry and Meghan’s nuptials, and I offered to take a cake. Due to the timing, of course I had to try to replicate theirs …
This malted milk tiffin recipe is the latest in my long line of no-bake slices. It could also be known as a Malteser tiffin recipe, as it also contains those. It isn’t vastly different to my Honeycomb Tiffin recipe, but as well as using Mars bars, Maltesers & malted …
This Eton mess trifle was devised as a gluten free alternative for a friend avoiding the sticky stuff. Instead of using sponge fingers or cake, I thought it would be nice to adorn the top with pretty swirls of meringue and fresh strawberries. It’s one of …
My favourite Australian chocolate bar inspired this easy Cherry Ripe slice, or no bake cake. I miss those a lot (I’m English but lived over there for a while). So I devised this for when my Antipodean cravings strike. Being given a free Cherry Ripe …
My latest tiffin creation is this chocolate mint slice biscuit recipe. I don’t love mint on its own, but throw in some chocolate and I’m happy. As with After Eights. Everyone else says they’re content too – these recipes can do no wrong at the moment. …
Want to make a chocolate KitKat cake? No bake slices like this might not strictly come under the category of cake. They are not baked, agreed – but they are delicious. This fridge cake recipe for a KitKat tiffin is so quick and simple to …
The flavours in this Christmas tiffin recipe are very evocative of mince pies – although there aren’t any actually in it. Waitrose used to sell a chocolate and ginger mince pie that my friend and I adored. Last time I looked they didn’t sell them …
My friends and family are seemingly as hooked as I am on cheesecake recipes – at least that’s what everyone says. This no bake salted caramel cheesecake recipe is my latest offering. It’s easy to make – and even easier to polish off (the lot). …
Hands up if you remember those slabs of cake that you used to eat at school dinner time? Swimming in a shallow bowl of custard? The idea of this old school cake recipe is to replicate those squares of sponge cake that we used to …
An absolute classic from my childhood, these pretty butterfly cakes adorned the buffet table at every child’s birthday party in the 1970s and 80s. Before anyone had heard of cupcakes. You can miss out the jam-and-sprinkles stage in this butterfly fairy cakes recipe and simply …