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 ...

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 ...

Line a 9in round tin with baking parchment and heat the oven to 180°C. Place the soft butter and the caster sugar into your mixing bowl and whisk until the mixture is light and fluffy. In another bowl ...