Easy cake recipes
From chocolate to carrot cake, here are our easiest cake recipes. They are guaranteed to make your time in the kitchen efficient and effortless!
Do you fancy a sweet treat but want a quick fix? Do you find yourself with very few ingredients in your storecupboard and are unable to get to the shops but need to provide a cake for family and friends? Or are you new to the whole baking thing and want to start somewhere but find it too daunting? We are here to help. We have collected our favourite low ingredient, easy and delicious cakes.
From traybakes to loaf cakes, try our best cheats recipes. Including delicious flavours such as a classic chocolate cake, a three ingredient orange cake, and a simple carrot cake. We have got you covered for any situation you might find yourself needing a cake in!
Jam Slice Traybake
Nostalgic desserts are all the rage right now! We have recreated the school dinner classic of a vanilla sponge topped with strawberry jam and desiccated coconut and it’s every bit as good as we remembered.
Recipe: Jam Slice Traybake
An experienced and highly skilled team of food writers, stylists and digital content producers, the Good Housekeeping Cookery Team is a close-knit squad of food obsessives. Cookery Editor Emma Franklin is our resident chilli obsessive and barbecue expert, who spends an inordinate amount of time on holidays poking round the local supermarkets seeking out new and exciting foods. Senior Cookery Writer Alice Shields is a former pastry chef and baking fanatic who loves making bread and would have peanut butter with everything if she could. Her favourite carb is pasta, and our vibrant green spaghetti is her weeknight go-to. Lover of all things savoury, Senior Cookery Writer Grace Evans can be found eating crispy corn and nocellara olives at every opportunity, and will take the cheeseboard over dessert any time (though she cannot resist a slice of tres leches cake). With a wealth of professional kitchen know-how, culinary training and years of experience between them, they are all dedicated to ensuring every Good Housekeeping recipe is the best it can be, so you can trust they’ll work (and if they don’t – we’ll have the answer for why*) every time (*90% of the time the answer is: “buy an separate oven thermometer”!).
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