Fruit cakes and bakes

A light, wonderful and easy sponge cake with cream cheese filling and blueberries. The cake batter is first made with sour cream, giving it a texture that’s wonderfully soft and slightly reminiscent of a yeast cake.

Continuing with the theme of chocolate and orange cakes, today I have a new chocolate meringue cake with hazelnuts and oranges. This chocolate and hazelnut meringue cake with oranges is absolutely wonderful! Intensely crisp, irresistible from the very

Cranberry cupcakes with white chocolate frosting are a delightful combination of tart and sweet flavours in one little cupcake :). Before you begin, remember that the white chocolate frosting needs to be prepared the day before so that it can simply be whipped the next day.

A simple cake with strawberries and lemon icing. Quick to prepare, requiring no mixer, and delicious. I used the recipe for your favourite cranberry and pistachio cake to create a summer version. Its texture is similar to a muffin cake, which is a big advantage if you are

If you enjoy all kinds of tangy fruit curds (such as lemon or passion fruit curd), you will fall in love with this tart filled with cranberry curd. This cranberry tart tastes absolutely incredible! It combines a delicious sweet-and-tart cranberry

A delicious, moist tart with baked Greek yoghurt and summer berries, with the texture of a light cheesecake. The yoghurt filling is very simple to make – it is simply a matter of mixing the ingredients together. A small amount of golden syrup or honey gives the tart

Do you like the combination of bananas and chocolate? This cake is FOR YOU. A deeply chocolatey cake, sticky but not heavy. Bananas add sweetness, aroma and charm. It smells wonderful. This chocolate banana cake is perfect for lifting your

A wonderfully quick tart with chocolate cream and fresh blackberries. I made it in between other baking projects, using leftover shortcrust pastry from previous tarts. There was a tub of mascarpone in the fridge that needed using immediately, and I had just brought

It was a lovely warm weekend and a particularly fruitful one for gooseberry bakes :). This time, it’s a coconut gooseberry cake made with yoghurt and finished with a crunchy coconut topping. Since this is a creamed butter cake, it’s important to follow

This rhubarb and raspberry crumble cake is another wonderful combination of rhubarb and raspberries baked into a simple buttery pastry. One of its biggest advantages is how quick it is to make, while still delivering the classic flavour of shortcrust pastry

The photos do not do this cake justice. It is a wonderfully simple butter cake that is incredibly easy to make. On the first day it is very delicate, almost impossible to slice and serve neatly, but by the following day it becomes beautifully stable while still melting in your mouth

This is the most delicious rhubarb pudding we have ever eaten. Rhubarb baked beneath a blanket of delicate sponge cake and served warm with a scoop of ice cream. Simply incredible! Simple ingredients, quick preparation and a flavour that feels

This rhubarb bake surpasses even the classic apple Tarte Tatin! It contains everything I love: buttery shortcrust pastry, tangy and refreshing rhubarb, and caramel—not too much, just the right amount. Like the traditional Tarte Tatin, this tart is baked upside down:

A fantastic combination of rhubarb and almonds in a simple yoghurt cake. This rhubarb and almond cake is fresh, moist and wonderfully aromatic thanks to the blend of extracts and spices, while the generous amount of rhubarb gives it a lovely refreshing character

Right, this one is going to be easier—but I am not going to let myself become too lazy! 😉 This recipe is quite well known online, although I did not follow it to the letter. The whole simplicity of the method comes down to one thing: the dough is not kneaded

Continuing with the almond and plum theme, here is a wonderfully rustic Italian almond plum cake. It comes together quickly and requires no mixer — simply combine the ingredients with a whisk. Thanks to the generous amount of ground almonds, the cake stays moist

When someone suggested in the comments under my vanilla rhubarb cake that I should try a similar version with a cheesecake layer, I knew it would be a wonderful variation :). And here it is — a vanilla butter cake topped with creamy white cheese filling, juicy strawberries

Chocolate cupcakes made from the same mayonnaise-enriched batter you may already know from chocolate layer cakes. Enhanced with fruit, these cupcakes are wonderfully moist, rich and intensely chocolatey. Because the sponge is quite delicate, it works