Who wouldn’t love homemade biscuits? A bespoke box of chocolates with all your fav flavours or your very own jar of gooey <a href="/recipes/salted-caramel-sauce-three-ways">salted caramel</a>, or even our<a href="/recipes/vegan-shortbread-dough"> hand tied cookie doughs</a> with a personalised Christmas note. 
 
A baked gift of homemade <a href="/recipes/vegan-chocolate-chip-cookies">Vegan chocolate chip cookies</a> or indulgent creamy fudge. <a href="/recipes/peppermint-creams">Peppermint Cream</a> anyone? Not only is it cost-effective to bake your own gifts, but each parcel of joy is also unique, thoughtful and baked with love.&nbsp;

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Homemade gifts go down a storm as thoughtful present ideas, but when they're edible too, it's an extra plus! See our selection of the very best homemade baked gifts.

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This easy chocolate cupcake recipe was created by Mary Berry, and creates&nbsp;rich, indulgent cupcakes that are easy to achieve in your own kitchen.
Whether you're looking for simple chocolate fairy cakes for a party or an easy chocolate cupcake recipe for everyday baking, this chocolate cupcake recipe is soon to be your go-to recipe for 5-star rich, gorgeously-moreish chocolate cupcakes every time.&nbsp;
In just half an hour, this quick and easy cupcake recipe will make a delicious batch of 12 delicious chocolate cupcakes, ready to pipe with your favourite topping. We love whipping up an easy <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/salted-chocolate-buttercream">Chocolate Buttercream </a>flavoured with rich cocoa powder for a satisfying chocolatey hit!
If you love quick and simple cupcakes, then why not give some of our other cupcake recipes a go? Try our <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/chocolate-chip-cupcakes">Chocolate Chip Cupcakes</a> for an easy twist on traditional <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/triple-vanilla-cupcakes">Vanilla Cupcakes</a>. If you’re a&nbsp;Nutella fan, our <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/nutella-cupcakes">Nutella Cupcakes</a> are always a winner for family and friends.
<h3>How to make Halloween cupcakes:</h3>
Turn your chocolate cupcakes into spooky Halloween treats with just a few easy steps! Use Silver Spoon’s chocolate fudge icing sugar and follow the instructions on the pack to whip up the smoothest, most delicious chocolate buttercream. For a fun bat design, top each cupcake with an Oreo for the body, and pipe black and white icing to create little bat eyes. It’s cute, creepy, and absolutely delicious!
<h3>How to make Christmas cupcakes:</h3>
Transform our versatile chocolate cupcakes recipe into adorable Christmas cupcakes. Simply add some edible eyes, a small ball of red fondant icing (or red smartie) and some broken pretzels for antlers and you have the cutest Christmas reindeer cupcakes.&nbsp;
<h3>How to decorate chocolate cupcakes:</h3>
These rich chocolate cupcakes are perfect to decorate for any occasion, all year round. Simply top with chocolate buttercream, then add Mini Eggs. Alternatively, add a quarter of a teaspoon of Hundreds And Thousands to the top of each cupcake's buttercream topping.
<h3>How to make your&nbsp;cupcakes moist and fluffy:</h3>
If you want your cupcakes to stay moist for longer, brush your cooled sponges with a simple sugar syrup made from two parts granulated sugar to one part boiling water. After you’ve added the sugar syrup, top the cupcakes with your buttercream icing and enjoy.
<h3>Reasons to bake:</h3>
⭐Ready in under an hour
⭐Ideal for last-minute gatherings and parties
⭐Brilliant for getting the kids involved

Mary Berry Chocolate Cupcakes

Ever wondered how to make Millies cookies from the comfort of your own home? This recipe is perfect for recreating delicious, chewy, and gooey Copycat Millie’s Chocolate Chip Cookies whenever you fancy them. They bake in less than 10 minutes, so they’re a brilliant idea for a quick dessert - and kids love them.
<h3>The best ways to eat Copycat Millie’s Chocolate Chip Cookies</h3>
Once baked, let them cool down and set for a few minutes before enjoying. Or if you really can’t wait, you can enjoy them whilst they’re soft and warm with a scoop of ice cream.
You can also choose to fill your cookies however you want. Try a combination of milk chocolate chips, white chocolate or dark chocolate. You can even use mini eggs, smarties or M&amp;Ms to make them even more unique
If you prefer a crunchy cookie, leave them in the oven for 10 minutes, as opposed to 7.
<h3>Can I freeze cookie dough?</h3>
You can easily plan ahead with this cookie dough recipe and freeze it to enjoy it anytime. Once you’ve made your dough mixture, roll it tightly in cling film to make sure it’s air-tight, or put it into a container, then pop it into the freezer.
Defrost the cookie dough for around 4-5 hours before you want to make the cookies, roll the defrosted dough into shape and start baking. Or to make things even easier, roll into cookie-sized balls before freezing and bake from frozen; the cookies will still taste just as delicious and hold their shape better due to the quick temperature change from cold to hot.
<h3>How long do Copycat Millie’s Chocolate Chip Cookies keep for?</h3>
These Homemade Millie’s Chocolate Chip Cookies should keep for around 4 days when stored in an airtight container.
If you’ve enjoyed baking our Copycat Millie’s Cookies, you can take some more baking inspiration from the rest of our <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/categories/cookies-and-biscuits">cookie recipes.</a> You’ll find loads of tasty bakes like our <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/biscoff-cookies">Biscoff Cookies</a>, <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/rocky-road-cookies">Rocky Road Cookies</a> and <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/peanut-butter-cookies">Peanut Butter Cookies</a>.
<h3>Reasons to bake:</h3>
⭐Super-simple recipe for novice bakers
⭐Great for getting the kids involved in baking
⭐The dough can be frozen and defrosted in advance

Copycat Chocolate Chip Millie's Cookies

Our no-bake rocky road recipe is simple, delicious and fun to make. It’s filled with gooey marshmallows and crumbly biscuits, then covered in rich, velvety chocolate.
<h3>What does rocky road have in it?</h3>
Typically, rocky road contains dark and milk chocolate, with chunks of marshmallow and biscuit inside. However, variations also contain peanuts, raisins, almonds, or anything else you like! We’ve also drizzled ours in white chocolate, but you could also do this with Nutella or caramel sauce.
<h3>How did rocky road get its name?</h3>
Rocky road takes its name in reference to the chunks of biscuits and chocolate packed into the recipe.
<h3>What’s the difference between tiffin and rocky road?</h3>
Often, rocky road is known as ‘rocky road’ in the US and known as ‘tiffin’ in the UK. However, the difference between rocky road and tiffin is how the chocolate mixture binds together, as well as the ingredients used.
Some tiffin recipes often use condensed milk and cocoa powder, then add the chocolate on top. <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/tiffin">Tiffin</a> also tends to contain a medley of fruits, rather than the marshmallows found in rocky road. Rocky road is typically made using melted chocolate and syrup to hold the ingredients together.

Rocky Road Recipe

This easy glace icing recipe creates smooth, glossy glace icing that's rich and spreadable, making it the very best topping for <a data-item-id="690f5b77-5fcc-59f6-95c6-f8cebf7ff34a" href="">biscuits</a>, <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/categories/cookies-and-biscuits/cookies">cookies</a>, <a data-item-id="871653dc-08b9-5901-bc1e-575c64eccc2b" href="">sponge cakes</a> and <a data-item-id="be5e00be-896a-5754-8ecb-67cdad7c88a0" href="">finger buns</a>.
This quick and easy icing for <a data-item-id="3bb99ae0-0582-534c-901d-78a4b8473bf4" href="">biscuits and cookies</a> also sets with a subtle, smooth sheen, making it an ideal edible ‘glue’ for decorating your baking creations.
We love using Silver Spoon Icing Sugar for a glossy, lump-free glace icing recipe that works every time. Using just water and icing sugar, this simple cupcake icing recipe is perfect for drizzling on cupcakes or dolloping on sprinkle sponge cake.
<h3>Which bakes can I decorate with glace icing?</h3>
Glace icing is a simple way to add decoration to your bakes - it’s usually drizzled over cakes, cookies, and pastries to add a sweet, shiny coating. It also works beautifully on cinnamon rolls, scones, fruit tarts, and even doughnuts. Glace icing can also be used to decorate gingerbread houses or to create intricate designs on sugar cookies.
<h3>What can I use icing sugar for apart from icing?</h3>
Icing sugar, also known as powdered sugar or confectioner's sugar, is a versatile ingredient used for sweetening and decorating bakes. However, it has several other uses:
<ul>
 <li>Sweetening: Sift icing sugar over cakes, cookies, and doughnuts for a sweet dusting and a professional-looking finish.</li>
 <li>Decorating: Use icing sugar to make royal icing for decorating cookies, cakes, and gingerbread houses. Mix it with egg whites and flavourings for a smooth, pipeable icing that hardens when dry.</li>
 <li>Thickening: Use icing sugar to thicken fruit fillings for pies and tarts. You can also sprinkle freshly-cut fruits, such as berries, with icing sugar to soak up any moisture.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Reasons to make our glace icing:</h3>
⭐Ready in minutes
⭐Can be made ahead of time and stored in the fridge
⭐Only uses two ingredients

Glace Icing

Your furry friends deserve to know just how much you love them with these ultimate treats - freshly baked dog biscuits made with simple dog-friendly ingredients and a whole lot of love.
Homemade dog biscuits are super easy to make, and ours are drizzled with a delicious peanut butter topping - your four-legged friend will go ‘barking mad’ to get their chops around this scrumptious snack!
Our dog biscuits recipe are quick and easy, making dog-friendly snacks in just 30 minutes - so your dog won’t be waiting too long to get their paws on this tasty treat.
Please note:
These dog treats are not a meal substitute, and should only be given as part of a healthy balanced diet. Your dog should have plenty of fresh clean water available at all times.
Substitute the flour in this recipe for oats if your dog is sensitive to wheat.

Dog Biscuits Recipe

These Mini Christmas Cakes might be small, but they packed full of the rich, fruity flavour you'd expect from a classic christmas cake recipe. Let's be honest, it can often be hard to finish a whole classic Christmas Cake, so these mini twists on the classic version are the perfect solution. These simple mini cakes are wonderfully rich thanks to <a data-item-id="d193ac5e-ef83-41f9-9476-d02613db3031" href="">Billington's</a> Light Muscovado Sugar which gives subtle hints of warm honey and creamy fudgy flavour, making it one of the finest light brown sugars in the World, and exactly what your Christmas baking deserves this festive season.&nbsp;
How to decorate my Christmas Cake? 
Golden in colour, these mini cakes are delicately covered with a thin marzipan layer, brushed with sweet and sticky apricot jam and tidied up with a final layer of white fondant icing leaving your Classic Mini Christmas Cakes ready to decorate however you'd like. The key to ensuring your Christmas Cake is smooth and uniform in shape is using an icing smoother (which you can pick up at most baking stores online), as well as ensuring your apricot jam is applied smoothly without any chunks of fruit. This way you'll create the perfect white canvas to decorate your Christmas Cakes as beautifully as possible. Why not pop a ribbon on your cakes to give them the final 'wow' factor? This is also a nice hack for covering up any untidy edges to your white fondant icing. We used red and green ribbon tied with a bow to give our Mini Christmas Cakes an extra festive finishing touch.&nbsp;

Mini Christmas Cakes

These cookies are a twist on the classic rocky road and classic cookie. We've merged them together to make a soft, chewy cookie filled with everything you'd get if you were making a rocky road.&nbsp;

Rocky Road Cookies

These funfetti shortbread biscuits not only look bright and colourful they also taste delicious too, with flavoursome hints of vanilla. A great one to share at your next coffee morning.

Funfetti Shortbread Bites

These vegan peanut butter chococlate chip cookies are thick and delicious. These rich decedent vegan cookies are crispy on the edges and soft in the centres. They are loaded with Proper Nutty peanut butter and chocolate chunks.&nbsp;

Vegan Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Is there anything better than the firery flavour of a proper ginger biscuit? These ginger biscuits really pack a crunch and a punch.

Ginger Biscuits

These chocolate brownie cookies are a true melt in your mouth moment. The outside is slightly crisp, holding together a softer, gooey centre similar to a chocolate brownie. The Billington's unrefined light muscovado sugar adds to the gooiness, and rich flavour. If you're feeling super indulgent, replace the dark chocolate pieces with chunks of Terry's Chocolate Orange or After Eight, so good you'll want every last cookie to yourself!

Chocolate Brownie Cookies

Cosying up with a warm bowl of humble crumble and a generous drizzle of custard is one of the finer things in life. Whether yours is served with ice cream, fresh cream or vanilla custard, we're yet to find a baker who doesn't love diving into a cosy crumble with their spoon on a drizzly day.&nbsp;
We add Billington's Golden Caster Sugar to our apple filling for the caramelly, glossy texture you'd expect from an ultimate apple crumble filling. Oh, and don't stop there with your Billington's sugar - use Billington's Unrefined Demerara Sugar in your crumble topping for a rich, crunchy finish. Just you wait to see the golden browned top glistening when you reveal this hearty bake from your oven.&nbsp;

Easy Apple Crumble

This recipe is sure to tempt the taste buds. Using Silver Spoon Preserving Sugar, this marmalade is simple to make. It has a spot of whisky in it which compliments the sharp orange taste and becomes the perfect marriage, we think this marmalade recipe is the ultimate because of this.&nbsp;You can always skip the whisky addition if you don't fancy it. Treat the whole family to home made marmalade on toast for a great start to the day.

The Ultimate Whisky Marmalade

Enjoy the simple things in life. Like the perfect vanilla cupcake. Make Silver Spoon’s easy vanilla cupcake recipe, your go-to cupcake of choice. With the lightest, fluffy vanilla sponge topped with the smoothest, vanilla buttercream, courtesy of Silver Spoon Icing Sugar, you are on to a winner. 
 
Light and moreish, this is just what you are looking for in a fluffy vanilla cupcake recipe. You are definitely going to want to snuffle more than one of these vanilla cupcakes, for research purposes obviously… 
 
Sneak a peek at our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfNOC9Mfsog" title="How to make vanilla cupcakes">‘how to make vanilla cupcakes’</a> video for extra tips and find out below how you can make our delicious vanilla cupcakes from scratch!
If you are looking for a quick shortcut for your buttercream with maximum flavour, try Silver Spoon's new Creamy Vanilla Flavour icing sugar or Chocolate Fudge Flavour icing sugar and simply beat together with butter, following the instructions on pack for a delicious, speedy frosting.&nbsp;
 
Tips for making the best homemade vanilla cupcakes: 
 
1. Do not overfill your cupcakes 
For the perfect-shaped cupcake with a lovely golden dome, only fill 2/3 to 3/4 of the way up the cupcake liner. If it's too full it looks messy and sometimes, it can even sink.&nbsp;As a rule, we say it's better to underfill rather than overfill. 
 
2. Best buttercream for cupcakes 
We recommend using our delicious vanilla <a data-item-id="02f6382a-d0f5-58f7-8c17-0acd82570e30" href="">buttercream recipe</a>, but if you're after something a little different on top of your vanilla cupcakes, try out our <a data-item-id="9e283dc4-6386-57a3-b79f-1979ee83461c" href="">citrus buttercream</a> or <a data-item-id="e7750934-e4bf-59a0-bf85-d3283ed9b73e" href="">maple buttercream</a>. 
 
3. How do I store my vanilla cupcakes? 
Once your cupcakes are cool, get them into an airtight container as soon as possible. Cupcakes can last for around 4 days before losing their freshness. Cupcakes with buttercream/frosting on top will need to be stored in the fridge.

Easy Vanilla Cupcakes

Our Christmas Chocolate Yule Log recipe is a real crowd-pleaser. Also known as a Bûche de Noel, this classic, traditional and festive dessert is made with a fluffy Swiss roll and indulgent chocolate buttercream. It’s simple to bake and great for getting kids into the Christmas spirit.
Find out how to make our Christmas Chocolate Yule Log recipe below. You can also see our video on <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/chocolate-yule-log">how to roll a Swiss roll.</a>

Christmas Chocolate Yule Log Recipe

Birthdays are such a special occasion that it is only right to celebrate with our Ultimate Birthday Drip Cake. With four decadent layers of fluffy vanilla sponge, decorated with smoothed vanilla buttercream, chocolate ganache drips, and mounds full of chocolate goodies, such as Bueno, Kit-Kats and Minstrels - chocolate lovers, meet your match.

Ultimate Birthday Drip Cake

Our rocky road brownies are a fully loaded twist on two classics: <a data-item-id="599707c9-2024-5397-ad77-e58ffe4bc965" href="">Rocky Road</a> and our favourite <a data-item-id="e8dc4fab-3f74-5dd4-8feb-0464527961e3" href="">Billington's Brownie recipe</a>, some would say its a match made in Baking Mad heaven. Perfect for a charity bake sales, party treats or even a midweek pick me up. One thing's for sure, you'll be sneaking back into the kitchen for just one more slice.

Rocky Road Brownies

If you’re a fan of sweet and zesty lemon-flavoured bakes, you can’t go wrong with our Lemon Curd Cake. Our soft, citrusy sponge really is easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy to whip up - it's filled with <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/lemon-curd">fresh lemon curd</a> and a light, fluffy lemon buttercream, and will soon become a family favourite. For some extra indulgence, double up your buttercream ingredients to coat the entire cake with lemon buttercream.
If lemon curd is your jam, you are also going to love our <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/lemon-curd-rolls">Lemon Curd Rolls</a>. Think cinnamon rolls, but oozing with fresh lemon flavour. Adding citrus fruit to your bake is one of the best ways of adding natural flavouring, to elevate your biscuits, cakes or even cookies.
Speaking of biscuits, cakes and cookies - get your lemon squeezers at the ready, as we have a whole host of citrus bakes just for you. Try our <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/lemon-drizzle-swiss-roll">Lemon Drizzle Swiss Roll</a>, keep it sweet with some <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/citrus-gingerbread-cookies">Citrus Gingerbread Cookies</a>, or stack 'em high with some <a href="https://www.bakingmad.com/recipes/turmeric-and-lemon-pancakes">Lemon &amp; Turmeric Pancakes</a>.

Lemon Curd Cake

Looking for a new homemade jam recipe? Give our damson jam recipe a go. Damsons are often the unsung hero of British fruits and make excellent preserves. Damsons are generally not eaten raw due to their sour flavour, this, however, means they are the perfect fruit for preserving.

Damson Jam

Add a bit of sparkle to your Christmas this year with this simply gorgeous glitter strawberry jam with champagne. This jam would make an excellent gifting idea and will look beautiful on your Christmas morning toast!