Summer pudding recipe: buttery pistachio tarts
The very best pistachios might be costly, but they make a suitably sumptuous pudding.
Cake recipes
There is genuine happiness in homemade cake at teatime. Shop-bought cake is all very well for pudding, but homecake cake is right and proper for tea.
Anyone can bake a cake and enjoy it-all you need is sugar, eggs, flour, butter, a little time and a modicum of patience. Cakes don’t like to be hurried, which is just as well, as it’s the process itself-beating, folding, mixing, tipping, spreading, waiting-that brings the warm glow of a job well done, making it all worthwhile. And if the end result isn’t quite perfect-well, who needs perfection anyway? It’s the thought that counts.
Discover some of our favourite cake recipes here at Country Life, from chefs including our kitchen garden cook: Melanie Johnson, Thomasina Miers, Elisabeth Luard and more.
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Recipe: Floral strawberry shortcake perfect for summer
Nothing represents our glorious British summer quite like sweet and juicy strawberries.
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How to make hummingbird carrot cake, an traditional favourite with a twist
Carrot cake, with a tropical twist from out kitchen garden cook.
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How to make chocolate-and-orange upside-down tea cake, with orange whipped cream
So much more than marmalade – our kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson finds delicious things to do with oranges.
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How to make quince-and-walnut crumble cake
Our kitchen garden cook bakes quince-and-walnut crumble cake, a delicious autumnal pudding which will satisfy seasonal glut.
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How to make salted-caramel, apple and roasted-hazelnut galette
A fail-safe French pudding recipe from our kitchen garden cook.
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How to make Frances Quinn’s banoffee tumbler trifle
Try this delicious pudding from former GBBO winner at your very own candlelit supper and 'Shine for ShelterBox.'
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Perfect pud: Cherry clafoutis with kirsch compote
Try this speciality of the Limousin region.
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Recipe: Fig, walnut and maple-syrup cheesecake
The subtle flavour of figs works well in both sweet and savoury dishes.
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Strawberry, rose and pistachio dacquoise
The perfect pudding to round off a lazy alfresco lunch.
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Carrot, blood-orange and hazelnut cake with cream-cheese frosting
Carrot cake, but not as you know it.
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387 hours for the icing alone: Derbyshire village recreated in cake
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Cherry, almond and chocolate drip cake with mini meringues
A pretty cherry cake, perfect for afternoon tea in the garden.
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How to make perfect chocolate cake
Elizabeth Luard reveals her favourite chocolate cake recipe.
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Gluten-free carrot cake with cinnamon-and-maple mascarpone frosting
A recipe for gluten free carrot cake, and a couple of other delicious recipes with carrots.
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Fig, pistachio and honey tea cake
Baked into tea cake or served with Parma ham and burrata salad, just two of our favourite fig recipes to try.
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Lavender and lemon layer cake with vanilla mascarpone icing
Baked into a lemon layer cake or sandwiched between chocolate kisses, just two of our favourite lavender recipes to try.
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Make delicious rose cake
Make Mrs Foyle's delicious rose cake this summer and celebrate the beauty of our garden roses.
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Gluten free chocolate cake
This rich, moreish chocolate cake is ideal for dinner parties, a picnic or afternoon tea, and is gluten free.
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Apricot crumble cake
Nigel Slater offers a grown-up version of the classic crumble.
