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Easy Recipes for the Home Cook

Discover easy to make recipes for the home cook and new baker. Find recipes for the perfect Afternoon Tea, weekend bake, bake sales and more. From a simple Victoria Sponge Cake to a delicious Vanilla and Coconut Cake or a super simple Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownies

Sheet Cakes and Tray Bakes feature heavily with a variety of toppings and No bake recipes for times when you don't want to use the oven.

Latest Recipes

  • Buttered Chocolate Chop Scone on a white platescone
    Chocolate Chip Scones with Buttermilk
  • Buttered treacle and Ginger scone on a plate
    Treacle and Ginger Scones
  • Cheese and Herb Scones with butter on the side.
    Cheese and Herb Scones
  • Plate of scones with slices of banana
    Buttermilk and Honey Scones
  • Blueberry scone with fresh fruit and cream on a white plate
    Blueberry and Lemon Scones
  • Slices of Peanut Butter Brownies
    Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownies
  • Sweet scones with butter and jam on a white plate
    Master Scone Recipe
  • Jar of jam with a blue fabric lid.
    Easy Homemade Strawberry Jam

Easter Baking

Try these Easter Baking recipes. Have fun making an Easter Bundt cake decorated with chocolate ganache/chocolate glaze and fondant filled creme eggs.

  • Branflake chocolate easter nests
    Chocolate Easter Nests
  • Chocolate Bundt cake topped with ganache and chocolate eggs
    Easter Bundt Cake
  • Chocolate Cake with Lindt Hazelnut chocolate spread filling. Decorated with mini sugar coated eggs.
    Chocolate Cake filled with Hazelnut chocolate spread.
  • Simnel Cake with Hollow Chocolate Eggs.
    Simnel Cake topped with Marzipan and Hollow Chocolate Eggs

Popular Recipes

Here are some of the most popular recipes that people are baking.

  • Overhead shot of flapjacks inside a red tin
    Easy Chewy Flapjack Recipe
  • Ground Almond Cake with flaked almonds and chocolate Drizzle. on a cake rack
    Ground Almond Cake with a Chocolate Drizzle
  • Chocolate marble Cake with a slice cut out
    Chocolate and Vanilla Marble Cake
  • Coffee and Walnut Cake Sliced
    Easy Coffee Walnut Cake
  • Yorkshire Tea Loaf, cup of yorkshire tea
    Yorkshire Tea Loaf
  • Sponge pudding served on a white patterned dish
    Apple Sponge Eve's Pudding
  • Slices of biscuit bars
    Chocolate Tiffin
  • Chocolate cake on a blue plate
    Easy Chocolate Glaze

Sheet Cakes and Tray Bakes

A selection of easy to make recipes such as Flapjacks, Cookie Bars, and Chocolate rich sponge cakes with an easy to slice chocolate topping. Each recipe uses a sheet cake or traybake style tin. These are ideal for batch baking or feeding a crowd. 

  • White Chocolate and Candy cake with a slice cut out.
    White Chocolate and Candy Traybake
  • Tin containing Fruit and Nut chocolate bars
    Homemade Fruit and Nut Chocolate Bars
  • Close up of gingerbread squares
    Gingerbread Traybake
  • Christmas Cake Bars on a glass cake stand
    Christmas Cake Bars
  • overhead shot of vanilla sheet cake topped with a white chocolate frosting, fresh strawberries and white chocolate chips.
    Vanilla Sheet Cake with White Chocolate Frosting and Strawberries
  • Pecan Cake with a slice cut out.
    Caramel Pecan Cake
  • Slices of Chocolate Squares
    Coconut Chocolate Squares
  • Pastry tart on baking parchment with knife and rolling pin on the side.
    Easy Mincemeat Squares Recipe
Browse Sheet Cakes and Tray Bakes

Cookies, Muffins, Brownies and Bars

  • Chocolate chip cookies in a tin
    Chocolate Chip Cookies with chocolate drizzle
  • Close up of mocha chocolate chip cookies
    Mocha Chocolate Chip Cookies
  • Chocolate covered shortbread
    Double Chocolate chip shortbread
  • Heart shaped biscuits on a plate and red serving mat
    Easy Vanilla Shortbread Biscuits
  • Mini Melting Moments piled high on a glass cake dish
    Mini Melting Moments Recipe
  • Treacle Muffin on a plate with a fork by the side
    Treacle, Ginger and Oat Muffins
  • muffins and a red apple.
    Cinnamon Apple Muffins
  • Shortbread biscuits on a blue square plate.
    Lebkuchen Shortbread
Browse More Cookies, Muffins, Brownies and Bars Recipes
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Welcome to Traditional Home Baking

Here you will find easy to make, often step by step recipes that everyone can make at home.

Find recipes for the perfect Afternoon Tea, weekend bake, bake sales and more, including tried and tested easy recipes for the home cooks.

If you're new to baking or want to get started with some simple easy recipes, a good place to start is with a classic Victory Sponge Cake recipe or a traditional Yorkshire Tea Loaf. Both are crowd-pleasers.

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Easy Loaf Cake Recipes

Easy to make cakes using either a 1lb or 2lb loaf tin.

  • Cake on a grey plate with dishes and forks
    Orange Cake with Marmalade Glaze
  • Vanilla Loaf cake with a slice cut out on a grey plate.
    Vanilla Loaf Cake
  • Sliced loaves on a chopping board
    Date and Coffee Loaves
  • Close up of slices of cake on a grey plate
    Coffee and Almond Cake
  • side shot of a cake with a slice cut out. White dish in the background.
    Orange Madeira Cake Recipe
  • Sliced Cherry and Coconot cake on a grey plate
    Cherry and Coconut Cake
  • Strawberry cake on a grey dish with fresh strawberries
    Fresh Strawberry Pound Cake
  • Cake on a grey patterned tray
    Homemade Lemon Yogurt Loaf Cake
Browse More Loaf Cake Recipes

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