Pop the bubbly and pass round love heart cookies at the Engagement party. Say it with biscuits when asking ‘will you be my bridesmaid?’ and decorate your venue with delicate <a href="/recipes/love-heart-biscuits">wedding favours</a>. 
 
Add a personal touch to your homemade wedding cake. From trendy naked cakes to tiered chocolate sponges or fruit cakes. We'll transform you into a wedding cake guru, guiding you on <a href="/baking-tips/how-to-layer-a-cake">how to layer a cake</a> to decorating and covering with marzipan, royal icing and more.

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This moist, rich cake is perfect for all special occasion, it is delicious on its own or covered with marzipan and sugar paste or royal&nbsp;icing.

Rich Fruit Celebration Cake

This vegan biscoff cheesecake recipe is simple&nbsp;to make.&nbsp;Making a vegan version of a biscoff&nbsp;cheesecake is easy if you use the coconut based cream cheeses.&nbsp;I use Violife, it’s perfect and sets well with the biscoff so NO other ingredients except a little sugar are needed to give you a perfect cheesecake!
To make mini cheesecakes:-
You can also make mini versions too, simply spoon the cheesecake base into loose bottomed cupcake, mini cake tin or individual ramekins and layer the filling and topping on top as per the recipe. If you don't have a loose bottomed tin you can use a cupcake baking tin and before filling with the cheesecake biscuit base put a thin 1cm strip of parchment paper inside the cupcake case (allow some of the paper to overhang the sides) When the cheesecake has chilled, you can run a knife around the edges and lift the paper strips to gently release your mini cheesecakes.&nbsp;

Vegan Biscoff Cheesecake

Weddings can be expensive business so why not challenge yourself to bake and decorate your own beautiful personalised showstopper. The beauty of this cake is that the sponges can be baked and frozen up to 3 months in advance, simple allow 24 hours to defrost and before adding the marzipan and icing.

Three tier sponge wedding cake

The simple, stripped-back naked vanilla celebration cake allows the taste to really do the talking and the velvety Nielsen-Massey vanilla buttercream says it all. Sleek and stylish. Sweet and moreish. This cake works on so many levels; ideal for bakers less confident in cake decorating or tasters who aren’t that fond of fondant.

Naked Vanilla Celebration Cake

There's cake then there is the Nielsen Massey&nbsp;Ultimate Vanilla Celebration&nbsp;Cake. A classic 4 layer Vanilla sponge cake, infused with a Vanilla syrup to make it extra moist, filled and covered with an indulgent Vanilla Bean buttercream. The pièce de résistance are the <a data-item-id="d4674f69-97e5-5a63-a5e9-ec22eae39bc0" href="">Rose Water Meringue Kisses</a> and <a data-item-id="2e8bf232-3c9a-5452-82aa-6ebf654124cc" href="">Macaron</a> decorations. Whilst this cake looks like a real showstopper it actually isn't as complicated as you would think (but your guests don't need to know that!)&nbsp;

Ultimate Vanilla Celebration Cake

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

Our friend Juliet Sear has developed this wonderfully tasty elderflower and lemon cake recipe for you.

Elderflower & Lemon Cake

Traditionally Churros are made by deep frying batter and coating the individual Churros in cinnamon flavoured sugar. Not everyone has a deep fat fryer (or wants to use one) so we put together this recipe for Baked Churros. We can all breathe a sign of relief, no extra oil added when it bakes in the oven. This classic Spanish sweet snack goes a long way to putting smiles on faces and even better, we've made a chocolate dipping sauce to go with them. We've included a simple step by step video above to run you through the steps. These baked churros are also good served with our own <a data-item-id="982ac7b6-4e43-5b7f-aa2a-7a97760f9248" href="">Marshmallow Fluff</a> recipe.

Baked Churros

This moist light muscovado carrot cake is an ideal spring time treat, whether it be an Easter celebration or simply enjoyed with a warm cup of tea. This cake is bursting with flavour from hints of mixed spices, coconut, walnut and carrot, the caramel undertones of Billington's light muscovado sugar and drizzled with a sweet, zesty orange syrup. And if that wasn't enough it is topped with a fluffy cream cheese frosting with a refreshingly twist of lime running through it. &nbsp;Simply moreish!

Light Muscovado Carrot Cake

This zesty lemon cheesecake is deliciously refreshing and would be a great dessert choice for any occasion. The base is packed with the flavours of gingernut biscuits and Billington's molasses sugar and topped with a smooth, creamy layer of lemon infused cream cheese&nbsp;making this no ordinary cheesecake. One slice of this and we guarantee you will be coming back for more.

Lemon Cheesecake

This three tier fruit wedding cake is simply gorgeous, looks amazing and will be the perfect centrepiece on the bride and grooms special day.

Three Tier Fruit Wedding Cake

Who doesn't love a vanilla cake? We sure do and we guarantee that after trying our easy Vanilla cake recipe no other cake will compare.&nbsp;
3 dreamy layers of vanilla sponge cake, flavoured with Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract, infused with a dreamy vanilla syrup and coated in the fluffiest vanilla bean buttercream. We dare you to resist sneaking a bit before sharing with your family and friends.&nbsp;
Once iced, the cake is a blank canvas for you to let your creativity free; sprinkles, melted chocolate or leave it plain and simple. This cake is sure to be a crowd pleaser.

Easy Vanilla Cake

These delicate cupcakes&nbsp;contain orange syrup&nbsp;made with Nielsen-Massey orange extract, perfect for special occasions.

Orange Cupcakes

Indulgent vanilla homemade fudge could just be the most perfect gift we could think of. This fudge can&nbsp;last up to 2 months when stored in an air tight container so you can get ahead of the game by making these way in advance.&nbsp;
These light treats would make a great wedding favour or Mother's Day/Father's Day gift. Explore our other <a data-item-id="189e3883-46f3-5422-9251-206ee50aa586" href="">wedding treats</a>.

Vanilla Fudge

The perfect homemade gift for any cookie lover! Simply layer the jar up as per the recipe, add a ribbon and finish off with these downloadable <a data-asset-id="7945de2a-a688-432b-94eb-8408d3d84dad" href="https://assets-eu-01.kc-usercontent.com:443/559bb7d3-88a4-01c1-79a3-dd4d5b2d2bb0/433b6e84-78c6-41a2-80f4-45f65df6fb94/Cookies-In-A-Jar-PDF.pdf">PDF instructions</a> to give the gift of delicious fresh cookies. Perfect for Christmas or any other occasion throughout the year.

Cookies in a Jar

These sweet love heart biscuits can be used as wedding favours, hen party gifts, valentines day treats or simply just to let the one you love know your feelings. Decorated with pastel shades of royal icing you can personalise each biscuit with your own message whether it be cheeky, sweet or even a marriage proposal... &nbsp; Take a look at our alternative anti-Valentine's Day messages, perfect if you're single for Valentine's Day and have your friends round!

Love Heart Biscuits

These vibrant rainbow meringues are sure to brighten up everyone's day. There are really simple to make and once baked in the oven can be left for hours to dry out whilst you put your feet up. These rainbow meringues can also be sandwiched together with a cream filling for an extra indulgent twist.

Rainbow Meringues

These Vegan Hi-Hat's aren't the only thing that'll be on a high once you whip these out at your next party. Lovingly created by Project Vegan Baking, his rich and gloriously plant-based cupcakes are topped with the fluffiest cloud-like swiss meringue buttercream, and dipped generously in a dark glossy chocolate coating. Once popped into the fridge to chill, these delicious vegan cupcakes have a distinctive 'crack' when biting into them - better go preheat your oven!&nbsp;
*Once baked, these cupcakes store in an airtight container at room temperature for 1 week.

Hi-Hat Cupcakes

We can't shout about this easy no-bake vanilla cheesecake recipe enough. Not only is it a bakeless cheesecake, giving you (and the cheesecake) chilling time while it's in the fridge, it's also blooming scrumptious.&nbsp;
A crisp and buttery&nbsp;<a data-item-id="277bd7f0-7430-57af-9334-fded3414bbc4" href="">vanilla shortbread</a> base, topped with creamy vanilla goodness - what more could you want?
To get the depth of flavour we love, we've used Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Bean Paste. It's the perfect vanilla choice for no-bake vanilla cheesecakes, giving your pudding the rich flavour from a vanilla extract and the beautiful vanilla seed flecks throughout that you would normally have to fiddle about with a vanilla pod to achieve. It really is one of baking's best-kept secrets!

No Bake Vanilla Cheesecake

This genoise sponge cake will make&nbsp;a beautiful centre piece&nbsp;for any dinner party&nbsp;and is delightful serve as a celebration cake on a special occasion. This recipe was created by Eric Lanlard and feature in the first series of Baking Mad with Eric Lanlard on Channel 4.