If you haven't yet discovered the delicious and surprising combo of beetroot and chocolate cake, this is the perfect introductory recipe. Try it with a dollop of crème fraîche.
Author: Nigel Slater
This is our most perfect chocolate brownie recipe. It's everything you want in a brownie - fudgy, dark and chocolatey. Serve these brownies warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and you'll understand...
Author: BBC Food
Our really easy chocolate cake recipe is perfect for birthdays. It's so moist and fudgy and will keep well for 4-5 days. For buttercream quantities, instead of ganache, use our cake calculator. Each serving...
Author: Rachel Manley
Simon Rimmer's recipe for homemade jaffa cakes is well worth the effort.
Author: Simon Rimmer
This Swedish layer cake is great fun - bright green and full of custard, jam, marzipan, and a mound of whipped cream! Equipment and preparation: for this recipe you will need a piping bag with a 1cm/½in...
Author: Mary Berry
Traditional spiced, sticky glazed fruit buns with pastry crosses. Served as a classic Easter treat, the buns can also be enjoyed at any time of year. Each serving provides 313 kcal, 8.5g protein, 57g carbohydrates...
Author: BBC Food
Our easy sponge cake recipe is foolproof. With only five ingredients this basic cake recipe just needs your favourite icing and you're sorted. It's a small sponge cake, made in an 18cm or 7in cake tin....
Author: BBC Food
Lebkuchen are traditional German Christmas cookies. Whether you make traditional circles or cut into stars and hearts, friends and family will love these Christmas biscuits. You can decorate them in so...
Author: Sophie Whitbread
This is my idea of a perfect cake: simple, beautiful, fragrant and beguiling. I've been making this sort of cake, in one form or another, since my clementine cake in How To Eat, and I can't help but feel,...
Author: Nigella Lawson
Dried fruits are soaked in tea to plump them up and add moisture to this simple, tasty cake.
Author: Silvena Rowe
Nigella's jam roly-poly pudding is complete comfort food. It's baked to make cooking a little less challenging, leaving you with a slightly crisp edge rather than complete steamy stodge.
Author: Nigella Lawson
This wonderfully simple lemon drizzle cake recipe is super-quick to prepare and perfect for weekend baking with the kids. This recipe makes a lemon drizzle loaf, but if you want to make a lemon cake in...
Author: Becca Spry
This easy layered traybake is inspired by American coffee cakes - which contain no actual coffee, but are meant to be eaten with your morning cuppa. If you were really pushed for time, you could use a...
Author: Emily Angle
Mary's decadent ginger pudding makes a delicious alternative to Christmas pudding. Equipment: You will need a 1lb/450g loaf tin.
Author: Mary Berry
I love anything with lemon in it so when I found out we had to make a drizzle cake lemon was the first thing that came to mind, but I spiced it up a bit to make it special. For this recipe you will need...
Author: Benjamina Ebuehi
Parkin the a classic Yorkshire ginger cake, and James Martin's recipe is as Yorkshire as he is! Make this a few days in advance to mature if you can bear to wait.
Author: James Martin
Taking tea in muffin form seems ideal for breakfast, and the warm spices of chai bring scented richness without heft. I've made these dairy-free, but if you want to, you can easily use semi-skimmed milk...
Author: Nigella Lawson
This kitsch dessert is made up of jam-filled Swiss roll with a set egg custard flavoured with raspberries, strawberries and raspberry liqueur.
Author: Mary Berry
These moist, yummy muffins are packed with goodness and are perfect for the kids' lunchboxes.
Author: Kate Morris and Sally Brown
Perfect with a cup of tea and a smear of creamy butter, this Chelsea bun recipe is great for a tea-time treat.
Author: BBC Food
Norwegians love their bread and loaves made with rye flour are particularly popular. This wonderful bread tastes a bit like sourdough - only better. We like it made with a mixture of white flour and rye...
Author: The Hairy Bikers
Mary's chocolatey custard tart is marbled with a pretty orange-flavoured white chocolate topping.
Author: Mary Berry
This recipe was sent in by my mum. It is impossible to eat just one of these deliciously moreish biscuits, as I can clearly remember from my childhood! If you cook these just a bit longer than stated below...
Author: Paul Hollywood
This is a good last-minute Christmas cake as it doesn't need time to mature. Fragrant, spiced and with a light golden crumb. The natural decoration looks incredibly impressive too. Equipment and preparation:...
Author: The Hairy Bikers
This citrus-infused sweet bread, topped with toasted almonds, is based on the flavours of the Italian Colomba di Pasqua (an Easter celebration bread).
Author: Paul Hollywood
An easy cherry loaf cake that's moist and tender with ground almonds that just needs a cup of tea. Remember to coat the cherries in a little flour so they don't all sink to the bottom of the cake.
Author: Annie Rigg
Tamal takes the rich indulgent flavours of sticky toffee puddings to make a cake with a difference. For this recipe you will need a 20cm/8in cake tin, a sugar thermometer and a large baking tray.
Author: Tamal Ray
The star here is the buckwheat, not only because it makes these cookies gluten-free, but mainly because I feel it brings its own nutty flavour and unique texture, creating a cookie that has softness and...
Author: Nigella Lawson
These moreish chocolate truffles are strictly for sweet-toothed chocoholics - keep them under lock and key as they're addictive and almost too easy to make.
Author: Angela Hartnett
Mary Berry's traybake is such an easy cake to make, and very quick to mix using the all-in-one method. It makes lots of portions so if you are cooking for a bake sale or party this is the one for you!...
Author: Mary Berry
This recipe makes twice as much lemon curd as you need, but you can store the rest in a sterilized jar in the fridge for up to a week.
Author: Selasi Gbormittah
With sweetness from dried fruit and agave nectar, and speckled with seeds and nuts, these flapjacks make a great snack or a worthy school fete bake. Each serving provides 372 kcal, 6g protein, 30g carbohydrates...
Author: Tom Kerridge
A Christmas cake and pudding in one simple cut out! Frances Quinn's ingenious Christmas cake combines two classics in one with this simple technique.
Author: Frances Quinn
These double chocolate chip muffins are more cake-y than some versions, but that means they keep for longer. Ideal if you're making for hungry mouths who have a few days off school.
Author: Sarah Cook
Once you've made your own sourdough 'starter' and produced a few loaves using it, there'll be no going back to supermarket bread.
Author: Paul Hollywood
Matt Tebbutt's amaretti are small and perfectly formed. These are great with coffee or as an after dinner treat. A low-FODMAP portion is 1 biscuit.
Author: Matt Tebbutt
This recipe uses tinned pears and apricot jam - making it perfect for winter when there's little fresh fruit in season.
Author: Paul Hollywood
Everyone's favourite baker Mary Berry gives you the lowdown on making the perfect royal icing.
Author: Mary Berry
Feed this spicy, fruit-packed Christmas cake right up until the last minute for an extra-special festive treat. For this recipe you will need a 20cm/8in non-stick savarin cake tin.
Author: James Martin
Make your life easier this Christmas and try this quick and delicious recipe - a great alternative to mince pies.
Author: BBC Food
An English classic, the custard tart is perfect for a little smackerel of something at elevenses.
Author: Alan Bennett
Light up the Christmas table with a stunning croquembouche that everyone will still be talking about next Christmas. Preparation: you will need to make a 50cm/20in tall cone made out of cardboard with...
Author: The Hairy Bikers
Enjoy this homemade loaf of ciabatta as a sandwich with mozzarella, basil, tomato and prosciutto, or simply ripped into pieces and dipped in olive oil and good-quality balsamic vinegar.
Author: Paul Hollywood
An authentic roti bread recipe, brilliant to serve with curries, making a good alternative to rice.
Author: Helen Mills
These light and very almondy amaretti are crisp on the outside and slightly chewy inside. Whip up a batch for edible presents - you can dust them with icing sugar for a pretty finish.
Author: Gino D'Acampo
This classic tart has a lattice top, which looks impressive, but is easy once you get the hang of it. For this recipe you will need a 23-25cm/9-10in tart tin.
Author: Matt Tebbutt
Mary's easy recipe for oh-so-pretty fruit tarts uses a regular bun tin to make things just that little bit easier.
Author: Mary Berry
Battenberg cake is a true classic for afternoon tea. The Hairy Bikers' recipe makes it foolproof.
Author: The Hairy Bikers
Try this easy pastry cream (or "creme pat") as a lining for fruit tarts or a sandwich cake filling.
Author: BBC Food