Baking

• Recipe collection
• Savoury pies & tarts

Five hot, new pies to bake this weekend (starring the ultimate beef and Guinness filling)

All-day baking projects, speedy cheat’s pot pies, plus an extra-fruity sweet treat.

• Bread

Vietnamese banana bread pudding with coconut caramel sauce

A twist a traditional bread-and-butter pudding, this Vietnamese-inspired version uses coconut milk and bananas for a flavour blast.

• 1-2 hrs
• Helen Goh

• Pastry

Adam Liaw’s cheat’s banoffee millefeuille

Millefeuille means “thousand leaves” and, while this cheat’s version only has one layer of pastry, the multiple layers within a good-quality puff pastry still give a layered texture.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Adam Liaw

• Recipe collection
• Best of

Get your bake on: The 25 most popular recipes of July 2023

Chicken pot pies, a retro loaf cake with a secret ingredient and a simple and sweet vanilla and ricotta cake – whether sweet or savoury, we loved our baking recipes this month.

• Cookbook extracts

Give an old-school loaf cake a 1950s twist with this wonderful and slightly wacky secret ingredient

Don’t ask retro baker B. Dylan Hollis why adding a can of tomato soup works so well in this vintage recipe.

• July 24, 2023
• B. Dylan Hollis

• Better baking

Emelia Jackson’s step-by-step guide to making the perfect sweet tart pastry (and the secret to avoiding a soggy bottom)

This buttery and rich pastry is a little more foolproof than a traditional shortcrust.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Emelia Jackson

• Eggs

Vanilla and ricotta cake with lemon icing

This is a super-simple cake that I like to make for my children’s birthdays since it’s delicious (of course!) but also stays very moist, thanks to the extra virgin olive oil and ricotta. I love the contrast of a light cake with zingy lemon icing; for topping, choose slivered pistachios, flaked almonds or celebratory sprinkles.

• 1-2 hrs
• Julia Busuttil Nishimura

• Quick & easy

Adam Liaw’s 20-minute cheesecake

The thickened cream includes gelatin and the icing sugar mixture contains cornstarch, both of which help to set this easy cheesecake.

• < 30 mins
• Adam Liaw

• Recipe collection
• Savoury pies & tarts

Five deliberately rustic savoury galettes to flake out over

Sour cream, cream or cream cheese adds richness to many of the flaky pastries used to encase these perfectly imperfect free-form vegetarian tarts.

• Mushrooms

Mushroom, comte and mascarpone galette

A free-form tart with the flakiest pastry filled with a classic combination of mushrooms, thyme and cheese.

• 1-2 hrs
• Julia Busuttil Nishimura