Cake recipes
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Greatest Recipes Ever: Apple Dessert CakeThomasina 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 CakeThis 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 cakeThomasina 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 cakeCharles 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 cakeTom Aitkens reveals his recipe for the perfect Victoria sandwich cake.
By Country Life Published
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Light apple cakeAn 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
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Madeira cakeSurprisingly, 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
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Seed cakeVery 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

