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 ...

100g caster sugar 1 cinnamon stick 3 pears about 400g total weight 1 tbsp arrowroot 1 tbsp pear liqueur or eau de vie You will need 6 x 150ml capacity ramekins and a baking tray to sit them on. Place ...

For the cheesecake mixture: Mascarpone cheese A mix of icing sugar and caster sugar. Icing sugar contains a small amount of ...

Preheat the oven to 190°C. Grease and flour a 23cm cake tin and set aside. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat the butter and half the caster sugar together on high speed until light and ...

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line the bottom of sandwich tins with greaseproof paper. Brush the bottom and sides with melted butter and dust with flour. Cream the butter until soft. Add caster sugar and ...