Cake recipes
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Greatest Recipes Ever: Apple Dessert Cake
Thomasina Miers recommends Mary Berry’s apple dessert cake as one of her greatest recipes ever.
By Country Life Published
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Recipe: Chocolate and Vanilla Layer Cake
This cake sandwiches a vanilla sponge within two chocolate cakes to create a truly fun effect.
By Country Life Published
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Greatest Recipes Ever: Northumberland lardy cake
Thomasina Miers picks Elizabeth David’s Northumberland lardy cake as one of her greatest recipes ever.
By Country Life Published
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Greatest Recipes Ever: Constance Spry’s Belvoir Ginger Cake
Rose Prince chooses Constance Spry’s Belvoir Ginger Cake as one of her greatest recipes ever.
By Country Life Published
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Greatest recipes ever: Mrs Asquith’s cup-of-tea cake
Charles Campion picks Mrs Asquith's cup-of-tea cake as one of his greatest recipes ever.
By Country Life Published
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The perfect Victoria sandwich cake
Tom Aitkens reveals his recipe for the perfect Victoria sandwich cake.
By Country Life Published
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Seed cake
Very popular with the Victorians, this cake fell out of favour in the Edwardian era - which is a pity because it is exquisite.
By Country Life Published
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Saffron cake
A Cornish speciality which brings welcome relief from the pasty.
By Country Life Published
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Light apple cake
An apple cost Adam and Eve the Garden of Eden, and caused the siege of Troy in Homer's Iliad. Find out what is so irresistible about this simple yet luscious fruit.
By Country Life Published