Type: Nut-free
Tessa’s spice cake
This is a simple spiced pound cake, but one that is seriously moist, with a lovely fine crumb. There’s enough going on,…
Lemon and poppy seed cake (National Trust version)
However ambitious and discerning Helen’s palate, this light lemon cake is the one she’d take with her to a desert island if…
Celebration cake
All cakes are cause for a certain degree of celebration, but certain celebrations are cause for a cake with layers! This is…
Pineapple and star anise chiffon cake
This cake is as light as it is large – the benefit being, of course, that everyone can have a great big…
Coffee and cardamom pound cake
These next two (companion) recipes are adapted from the ‘Perfect Pound Cake’ recipe in Rose Levy Beranbaum’s Cake Bible. As it really…
Neapolitan pound cake (for the family)
We’ve gone for the classic Neapolitan colours – brown, white and pink – with a pink icing. It’s basically heaven for the…
Lemon and blackcurrant stripe cake
We had a momentary wobble as the recipes for Sweet were coming together that there was not enough colour. Yotam ran off…
Take-home chocolate cake
The recipe for this first appeared in an article written about Helen when she ran her café, the Mortar & Pestle, in…
Vineyard cake (aka Cleopatra cake)
This cake originally came from Yotam’s friend Kit Williams (who herself found it in Gourmet magazine) during her time at Baker &…