Pancakes, Crepes & Waffles

We would eat pancakes for breakfast, lunch and dinner if we could. We have the best pancake recipes, whether it’s a <a href="/recipes/basic-pancakes">basic pancake</a> recipe or the fluffiest <a href="/recipes/american-pancakes">American pancakes</a>. 
 
Blintzes, swirls, crepes or scotch pancakes, the hardest decision you will have is deciding which to try first. Our 5* <a href="/recipes/vegan-pancakes">vegan pancakes</a> are second to none, some may even say they are ‘flipping’ awesome.

Pancakes aren't just for Shrove Tuesday, you know. Whether you like them with maple syrup, jam, fruit or chocolate, our pancake recipes will have you making pancakes all year round.

Pancake Recipes

From breadsticks to brioche, sourdough to pizza dough - we have a medley of bread and dough recipes to see you through from breakfast to dinner.&nbsp; 
 
Love a 'pop in the breadmaker' bake? Or perhaps more of a 'get stuck in and sticky' <a href="/recipes/bacon-and-cheese-loaf">hand baked loaf</a>? Whatever type of baker you are, bread baking apprentice to artisan extraordinaire we have the best bread recipes.

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Making your own bread from scratch is incredibly satisfying. We also have pizza dough recipes, doughnuts and so much more. Try them out today.

Bread Recipes | Easy & Delicious Bread & Dough Recipes

Fill your house with the aroma of freshly baked bread

Bread & Dough

There are lots of ways to make a cake; dress it up with decorations or celebrate its full naked glory. A ‘drop of vanilla’ birthday cake, "one more slice" banana bread or decadent chocolate cake recipes. Rolled. Stacked. Filled. You bake the rules. 
 
For beginners, the classic <a href="/recipes/lemon-drizzle-cake">Lemon Drizzle cake</a> is the perfect crowd-pleaser. Or for more experimental bakers, stack the tiers high and fill the cakes with hidden surprises. When cake is life, not just for birthdays, we say let’s get baking.

Cookie, Oreo & Brownie Layered Cake with a slice cut out of it. 

Baking a cake is a fine art, but one that can be mastered by many. Browse through our cake recipes and find the perfect one for you.

Cake Recipes | Easy Cake Ideas

Old Favourites & Classic Cakes

Cakes

Chocolately truffles, creamy fudge, the fluffiest marshmallows, we defy not to become giddy like a child in a sweet shop with these sweet recipes.&nbsp; 
 
From nostalgic sweets, <a href="/recipes/white-chocolate-snowies">snowies</a> and <a href="/recipes/chocolate-nutella-mice">chocolate mice</a> to <a href="/recipes/turkish-delight">Turkish delight</a> and <a href="/recipes/peppermint-creams">Peppermint Creams</a>, the hardest decision will be which one to try first. Pick n Mix to your hearts delight or share the love creating the greatest Willy Wonkeriffic edible gifts for friends and family.

Top view of Rainbow Meringues in a bowl, with Rainbow Meringues scattered around next to a bag of silver spoon caster sugar

The most exciting confectionery and sweets recipes including Turkish delight & chocolate fondant are on Baking Mad. Pick your favourites and make them today

Confectionery Recipes | How to Make Homemade Candy Sweets & Chocolates

Try your hand at making homemade confectionery recipes

Confectionery

Crunch, snap or dunk. However you like to eat your biscuits, we have something for everyone. Our irresistible 5* Millies <a href="/recipes/copycat-chocolate-chip-millie-s-cookies">chocolate chip cookie recipe</a> is a must for all cookie lovers. You call it eating the whole batch, we call it taste testing.&nbsp; 
 
When it comes to biscuit recipes, go simple with <a href="/recipes/shortbread-fingers">shortbread</a> or spice up your life with <a href="/recipes/gingerbread-dough">gingerbread</a>. There's even a <a href="/recipes/dog-biscuits">dog biscuit recipe</a> for your pampered pooches.

Side on view of a stack of vegan and gluten free chocolate chip cookies

Cookies and biscuits can often be confused, but either way, they are delicious and easy to make. We have loads of recipes for you to try out. Happy baking

Cookies And Biscuit Recipes | How to Make Easy Biscuit & Cookies at Home

Fill up your biscuit tin!

Cookies & Biscuits

Mini or mighty, one in a jar, for the best cupcake recipe you needn't look that far.&nbsp;Vanilla, Oreo, Biscoff? Chocoholics, all hail the 5* <a href="/recipes/mary-berry-chocolate-cupcakes">Mary Berry chocolate cupcake recipe</a>.&nbsp;Keep kids busy with <a href="/recipes/chocolate-cake-pops">cake pops</a> and <a href="/recipes/simple-fairy-cakes">fairy cakes</a>. We even have <a href="/recipes/feta-cheese-and-herb-cupcakes">savoury cupcakes</a> to jazz up lunchtime. 
 
Mad about muffins? From blueberry to banana muffin recipes; the tastiest way to sneak in your 5 a day. <a href="/recipes/gluten-free-chocolate-and-cherry-muffins">Gluten free muffins</a>, <a href="/recipes/vegan-blueberry-muffins">vegan muffins</a>, you will be spoilt for choice.

Nutella Cupcakes with glass bottle of milk in the background

Cupcakes and muffins both have a place in our hearts and they’re similar in looks and how they’re baked. Here are our favourite cupcake and muffin recipes.

Cupcakes & Muffin Recipes | Easy Recipes & Best Bakes

Bake a batch & share with friends!

Cupcakes & Muffins

All about the heavenly desserts? Whatever the season or occasion we have dessert ideas from summery meringues, pavlovas to panna cottas. In winter snuggle down with warming and comforting puds, whether it be&nbsp;a humble crumble or creamy rice pudding. 
 
If cheesecake is your kryptonite we suggest you look away now - from <a href="/recipes/new-york-baked-cheesecake">New York Vanilla</a> to <a href="/recipes/toblerone-cheesecake">Toblerone</a>, our selection is guaranteed to leave you weak at the knees.

2 glass jars of eton mess, raspberries, edible flowers and vanilla extract

Desserts come in many shapes and sizes. Baking Mad has a full collection of dessert recipes that you simply have to try. Get them here.

Dessert Recipes | Easy Desserts for Every Occasion

Browse dessert recipes for every occasion

Desserts

Ice cream recipes have never been simpler, no ice cream maker needed! Maple fudge, strawberry ripple, mint choc chip and rum – no need to be so vanilla (although this is also yummy). Serve in an <a href="/recipes/arctic-roll">arctic roll</a>, <a href="/recipes/fruity-knickerbocker-glory">knickerbocker glory</a>, <a href="/recipes/ice-cream-cookie-sandwich">cookie sandwich</a> or an indulgent ice cream cake, guaranteed smiles all round.
It’s not just ice cream recipes; granitas, sorbets, frozen yoghurts and ice lolly recipes. Lots of icy delights, so free up your freezer.

Bowl of ice cream, apple and slices, brown sugar packet

Discover the perfect homemade ice cream & ice lolly recipes with the latest tips, and learn how to make anything from vanilla ice cream to an ice lolly.

Ice Cream & Lollies | Easy Frozen Homemade Treats

There's nothing better than homemade ice cream...

Ice Cream & Lollies

Fluffy <a href="/recipes/buttercream-icing">basic buttercream </a>(or frosting) really is the icing on any cake. Simple to whip up, satisfying to gobble up. Master a buttercream recipe and experiment with flavours, or add cocoa for the best <a href="/recipes/salted-chocolate-buttercream">chocolate buttercream</a>. 
 
From rainbow buttercream, roses or ruffles, we have the piping tips and techniques to grow your decorating skills. More of an icing traditionalist?

Try one of our many icing & buttercream recipes and make something delicious today Learn how to make the perfect icing or buttercream filling for your cake.

Icing & Buttercream Recipes | Simple & Easy Sweet Toppings

From royal icing to fondant icing and flooding, we have it all

Icing & Buttercream

You can’t beat homemade, bursting with fruit and veg. <a href="/recipes/lemon-curd">Lemon curd</a>, <a href="/recipes/orange-and-whisky-marmalade">Orange and Whiskey marmalade</a>, <a href="/recipes/glitter-strawberry-jam-with-champagne">glitter Strawberry jam</a> - your toast has never tasted so good. 
 
Revolutionise your tarts and pies with chutneys, curds, jams and jellies that will have your friends begging for the recipe. It couldn't be simpler with our friendly tutorials, you'll know how to make jam in no time.

Discover jams, marmalade, chutneys & other preserve recipes on Baking Mad. Jams & preserves are a key part of many traditional cuisines all over the world.

Jams & Spreads | Easy Homemade Preserves

Are spreads and preserves your jam?

Jams & Spreads

Traditionally <a href="/recipes/basic-pancakes">thin crepes</a> or thick and fluffy <a href="/recipes/american-pancakes">American Pancakes</a>? Stack with berries, maple and bacon, or fill with spinach and ricotta. 
 
Keto, Vegan or Gluten Free, the humble pancake is flipping fabulous whatever the occasion. For the ultimate batter indulgence, a mountain of waffles drizzled with syrup or a plate of cinnamon Churros dipped in chocolate. Heavenly.&nbsp;

Stack of american pancakes covered in maple syrup and topped with fresh berries

Pancakes aren't just for Shrove Tuesday. From crepe to American style, discover the variety of exciting pancake and pancake batter recipes on Baking Mad.

Pancakes are for life, not just for Pancake Day

Whether you need a simple shortcrust pastry recipe, fabulous filo or puff perfection, we have something for everyone. Even Vegan potato pastry. 
 
Learn <a href="/baking-tips/how-to-blind-bake-pastry">how to blind bake pastry</a> and once you have mastered the basics, tart it up to your hearts delight. Travel the world from Danish pastries to French Pastries, Austrian Strudels to Greek Spanakopita. Sweet or savoury. Steak pie or apple pie. We have more swirls, rolls and turnovers than a gymnast.

Looking for a easy, tasty pastry recipe? You've come to the right place From Yorkshire puddings to apple pies, discover the many recipes on Baking Mad.

Pastries, Pies & Tart Recipes | Easy Ideas for Best Savoury Bakes

Grab your rolling pins and let’s get baking.

Pastries, Pies & Tarts

How to make scones has never been easier with our foolproof tips and tricks on how to rub together butter and flour. Whether you’re “jam then cream” or vice versa there's something for everyone. 
 
Sweet or savoury. Cheese scones galore. Marmite lovers will go crazy for our <a href="/recipes/cheese-and-marmite-scones">Cheese and Marmite scones</a> - the ultimate taste sensation. Bring your ‘A’ game to afternoon tea with these easy scone recipes. The yummiest fruit scones, calorie conscious, buttermilk and <a href="/recipes/gluten-free-afternoon-scones">gluten free scones</a>.

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Discover our easy scone & shortcake recipes from Baking Mad & find your favourite scone recipe. Learn the secrets of this traditional English treat

Scones & Shortcake Recipes | Baking Mad

Once they’re scone, they’re scone

Scones & Shortcakes

We have the perfect accompaniment to any pud - velvety <a href="/recipes/vanilla-custard">vanilla custard</a>. Or for a touch of nostalgia, a spoonful of feel-good <a href="/recipes/pink-custard">pink custard</a>. 
 
For ultimate indulgence, our <a href="/recipes/salted-caramel-sauce-three-ways">salted caramel sauce</a> is pure heaven. Drizzle on ice cream, or hide inside melt-in-the-middle puds; it’s also tasty eaten secretly by the spoonful. Gift these sweet sauces to your loved ones and you will be guaranteed friends for life.

Find the most delicious sweet sauces recipes on Baking Mad. Whether you're looking to make bread, caramel or cranberry sauce, you can try one here today

Sauces & Condiments | Simple Homemade Sauce Recipes

Feeling Saucy?

Sweet Sauces

Can we tempt you with a traybake? Breath-taking brownies, blissful blondies, fabulous flapjacks. Maybe our millionaires shortbread recipe? Crunchy biscuit base, velvety caramel and sweet chocolate to finish. 
 
Is your mouth watering yet? Traybakes are a cinch with kids - like our ‘anything goes’ <a href="/recipes/biscoff-rocky-road">Rocky Road recipes</a>, simple to make and scrumptious to snuffle. You're in the right place for the yummiest traybake recipes.

Salted Caramel Cookie Traybake pieces stacked on top of each other with a hand reaching for the top piece. A bottle of milk in the background and jar of caramel sauce in the foreground

Traybakes are a delicious collection of baked cakes, slices and squares that are baked in a tray and then sliced up into portions. Find your traybake match here.

Traybake Recipes | Easy Flapjacks & Best Brownies

Deliciously simple traybake recipes

Traybakes

Fruit cake, sponge cake or a single cupcake, we have the birthday cake recipes to make the day special. Kids will love our fun cakes from unicorns, castles and barbies to rainbow showstoppers. 
 
Heavenly <a href="/recipes/best-chocolate-cake">chocolate cake</a> and <a href="/recipes/boozy-margarita-cake">boozy bakes</a> for the adults. Even <a href="/recipes/number-cake">number cakes</a> for those who don’t mind their age. Make the birthday with nibbles galore. Scotch egg or sausage roll anyone?

Looking to bake the perfect birthday cake for family or friends? Explore Baking Mad's wide selection of birthday cake recipes to get inspiration

Birthday Cakes & Bakes | Baking Mad

Whether you're 1 or 100 we all deserve a birthday cake on our big day

Birthday Recipes

Recipes

Tips & Tricks

Our easy American style pancakes are light, fluffy and perfect for an indulgent breakfast. Whip them up in 10 minutes, stack them and serve with syrup, bacon or fresh fruits
What's the main difference between British and American pancakes? 
 
The&nbsp;difference between British and American pancakes is a raising agent. The&nbsp;British-style&nbsp;pancakes don't use one, whereas the American-style pancakes do – typically baking powder, or whipped egg white, or both. We've used both in our recipe below.

American Pancakes

If you're after big fluffy light vegan pancakes then this vegan pancake recipe is for you. These vegan pancakes go so well with maple syrup and fresh fruit.&nbsp;

Vegan Pancakes

These vegan pancakes are also gluten free. You can substitute eggs for&nbsp;bananas, apple sauce , flax or chia seeds. We've used banana in this vegan gluten free recipe. This recipe is the best we've ever made so we're happy to share this with you. Please leave a review and share how you got on.&nbsp;

Vegan Gluten Free Pancakes

The perfect dog treat recipe, these doggy pancakes are sure to get tails wagging. Whether its a poochy brunch, celebration or just a weekend treat spoil your furry friends.
Packed with banana and peanut butter this homemade dog treat recipe will be a guaranteed favourite. A super simple pancake recipe that can also be frozen and enjoyed at a later time.&nbsp;

Dog Pancakes

Recipe from Flipping Good! by Sudi Pigott. "Pancake Puffs" is what Aebleshiver is also known as and they are a traditional dutch pancake with a distinctive shape of a sphere. The name means 'apple slices' in Danish. Today's version doesn't typically contain apple slices -&nbsp;it's more like a pancake meets Yorkshire pudding. They are solid like a pancake, but fluffy and light.&nbsp; Delicious.&nbsp;

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Russian pancakes are a popular Russian dish. These are&nbsp;&nbsp;especially eaten during the Maslenitsa festival in Russia. These pancakes are particularly versatile. You can make them sweet or savoury, fold them into triangles or roll them. However you wish to consume pancakes, you can!&nbsp;&nbsp;

Russian Pancakes

Jazz up the traditional pancake with a hint of chocolate and serve with bananas, cream and chocolate sauce. This is definately a dish for a chocoholic. 
 
For those of you who prefer fruity pancakes, give our <a data-item-id="a49cff5f-084d-5d96-82c6-beaefa3ecb85" href="">blueberry and ricotta pancakes</a> a try!

Chocolate Pancakes

This delicious recipe featured in the 2012 edition of The Little Book of Treats as The&nbsp;Fabulous Baker Brother's&nbsp;favourite. This would make a delicious dessert any time of the year - don't just wait for pancake day!&nbsp;

Banana & Vanilla Ice Cream Pancakes

This pancake cake is super cute and would work great as an alternative celebration cake for a pancake fan. This recipe turns the modest pancake into a spectacular show stopping cake.

Indulgent Vanilla Pancake Cake

These delicious light fluffy pancakes served with crispy bacon and drizzled with maple syrup are a great breakfast treat or simply served for dinner as a savoury alternative to the traditional pancake enjoyed on Shrove Tuesday. Once you have mastered this recipe, breakfast will never be the same - you might also like to try making your own soft <a data-item-id="c6eb7edb-d9c4-5b0a-869f-48936a5af8b9" href="">crumpets</a> to smother with creamy butter.

Pancakes with Maple Syrup & Crispy Bacon

The possibilities for pancakes are endless and we've added one more to the list. Our Lemon and Raisin Pancakes make a really simple breakfast, or they can be wheeled out on pancake day. Because these pancakes have raisins in they may be a little more tricky to flip.

Lemon & Raisin Pancakes

Push the boat out this Pancake Day with this indulgent stack of pancakes layered with whipped cream and topped with delicious mixed berry and raspberry Treat sauce.

Mixed Berry Pancakes with Cream

These vegan protein pancakes are great to make and have a great rise to them. The pancakes are not only vegan, but are protein packed and really fluffy.&nbsp;This recipe is a good choice a few hours before a workout or shortly after one.

Vegan Protein Pancakes

These easy pancakes are so versatile and quick to make with this fool proof recipe taking just 7 minutes. Keep it classic with a sprinkling of sugar and lemon or alternatively you top with your favourite sweet or savoury flavour combinations.&nbsp;

Basic Pancakes

We're going all continental in the world of pancakes! This is officially known as a German Pancake, another name for it is a Dutch Baby Pancake. It looks like a giant Yorkshire pudding but has the taste and consistency of a custard tart. You have many choices for serving suggestions. We recommend any of the following: blueberries, lemon slices, Billington's maple syrup, cream, yoghurt or creme fraiche and icing sugar.

Dutch Baby Pancake

If like us you can't resist a Cinnamon Roll then you really have to try this Cinnamon Swirl Pancake recipe. This recipes combines the best of two delicious breakfast treats and is one the whole family will enjoy. Not only does they look great but they taste amazing too, especially when drizzled with our <a data-item-id="dd29ab30-c85f-51e2-ae49-1ab2784ae822" href="">cream cheese icing.</a>&nbsp; 
 
If you enjoyed this recipe, check out our <a data-item-id="d06d5fc5-718e-58f6-9e15-69e37b6bb680" href="">cinnamon swirls recipe</a>.

Cinnamon Swirl Pancakes

Who says you are only allowed to enjoy pancakes one day of the year? These delicious red velvet heart pancakes are the perfect treat for an indulgent weekend breakfast or even to surprise your loved one on Valentines day. They taste great, complimented by a scoop of ice cream or just simply drizzled in chocolate. So moreish you will want to keep the whole batch to yourself.

Red Velvet Heart Pancakes

Pancakes or Crepe's should not be saved for just one special day a year. This is a recipe you will want to bring out time and time again. These crepes are sweetened with Truvia Calorie Free Sweetener making them a lighter, guilt free bake.&nbsp;

Chocolate Crepe

We flippin' love these pancakes, because you can pile these pancakes high and not have the guilt of all the extra calories. For these simple low calorie pancakes, we've simply substituted some of the milk of a traditional pancake with water and we've used a low cal spray (1 cal per spray) instead of oil or butter to grease the pan which is a super easy way of reducing the calories per portion in this recipe. &nbsp;

Low Calorie Pancakes

These delicious buttermilk pancakes are very easy to make and have a lovely smooth vanilla flavour. Serve with fresh figs and a drizzle of your favourite honey.

Pancakes

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