Baking recipes

12 tried-and-tested baking recipes to cook from, with quantities you can scale and steps you can tick off.

• Soft Oat Breakfast Cookies — Three big, soft oat cookies for breakfast, sweetened only with dates and banana, held together with peanut butter and…
• Whole Mandarin Cake — A cake made by blending three whole mandarins, peel and all, with the eggs, olive oil and sugar, then folding in…
• Biscoff & White Chocolate Banana Bread — Banana bread with Biscoff spread and white chocolate in the batter, more biscuits on top and melted Biscoff poured…
• Whole Orange Blender Cake — A cake made by blending a whole orange, peel and all, with eggs, oats, yoghurt and maple syrup. There's no flour or…
• Banana Doughnuts — Little doughnut bites made from one ripe banana and some self-raising flour. No yeast and no deep frying, just six…
• Chocolate & Guinness Loaf Cake — Chocolate Guinness cake baked in a loaf tin. You can't taste the beer once it's baked, but it makes the cake dark and…
• Kiwi Drizzle Cake — A loaf cake made by blending whole kiwis with the eggs, sugar and oil, so there's no creaming or mixer needed. It's…
• Sugar Cookies — Soft vanilla cookies that keep their shape in the oven, so they're good for cutting into shapes and decorating with…
• School Cake — The vanilla traybake from school dinners, with a thick layer of white icing and rainbow sprinkles. It makes plenty for…
• Avocado & Banana Muffins — Soft muffins made with avocado and banana and sweetened with maple syrup or honey. Good for breakfast or a snack, and…
• Chocolate Chip Banana Bread — A moist banana bread with chocolate chips. A good way to use up overripe bananas.
• NYC Chocolate Chip Cookies — Big, thick, gooey chocolate chip cookies in the New York bakery style.