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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Madeira cake
Surprisingly, this cake is a light concoction of flour and lemon and does not contain a single drop of Madeira. It is so called because it was traditionally enjoyed with a glass of fortified wine.
By Country Life Published

