Every Mary Berry Cake Recipe in One Delicious Place – Inspired by Mary Berry.
I was trying to impress my northern mother-in-law—the kind who grew up on proper Lancashire bakery Eccles cakes. “Don’t mess about with the filling,” she told me. Naturally, I did the opposite. I used store-bought puff pastry, stuffed them too full, and sealed them half-heartedly. The result? Currant blowouts and soggy bottoms. Once I finally […]
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The first time I made this cake, it nearly broke me. I was helping a friend cater her micro-wedding, fully confident I could “just follow the recipe” and everything would turn out fine. What I didn’t anticipate? The weight of three dense chocolate layers, the nerve-wracking transport, and my butter refusing to soften in a
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This cake is one of those recipes where you bake it once, and it lasts forever. The first time I made it, I skipped the overnight fruit soak (huge mistake), used whatever dried fruit I had on hand, and baked it in a cheap tin that scorched the edges. The result? Dry, uneven, and more
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The first time I made this was in mid-December, when I was short on time and completely done with recipes that needed overnight soaking or constant boozy feeding. I simply wanted a fruitcake that tasted like Christmas without the hassle. That’s when this recipe came into play. I whipped it up during a snowstorm (no
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When I first tried making this cake, I wasn’t expecting much. I had a nearly expired tin of condensed milk and a stash of leftover raisins and cherries from Christmas—so I thought, why not? Turns out, quite a bit can go wrong if you don’t let the boiled fruit mixture cool before adding the eggs
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The first time I baked this was during peak strawberry season. I’d just come back from a day at the tennis—sunburnt, inspired, and craving something light and summery. “Just a sponge and some fruit,” I thought. Simple, right? Not quite. I didn’t separate the eggs properly, stirred the whites too aggressively, and ended up with
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The first time I attempted Mary Berry’s rainbow cake, I seriously considered giving up halfway through. I had optimistically thought, “How tricky can it be to bake a few colourful layers and add some frosting?” Oh, how naïve I was. By the third layer, things were already going sideways. One came out dry as a
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I first baked this Banana and Honey Loaf on a chilly Wednesday afternoon—the kind where the sky darkens by 2 p.m., and you crave something golden and comforting in the oven. I had two overripe bananas begging for attention and a half-empty jar of honey hiding in the cupboard (you know the one—slightly crystallized, probably
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Mary Berry’s Fruit Loaf Recipe If you’ve ever baked a fruit loaf that seemed perfect in theory but ended up sinking or soggy in reality, you’ll know the struggle. I had that moment with Mary Berry’s fruit loaf recipe, but with a bit of patience, I figured out how to get that beautiful, golden, light,
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The first time I baked this marmalade loaf, I was confident—it had simple ingredients and that classic Mary Berry charm. What could possibly go wrong? Well… quite a bit, actually. I made the rookie mistake of not rinsing the cherries—they bled into the batter like little red ink blots. Then, feeling overconfident, I added an
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