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Cheese, Vegemite and spring onion pull-apart loaf.

Cheese, Vegemite and spring onion pull-apart loaf

This fun-to-make-and-eat bread makes a great accompaniment to soup or a tasty starter on its own.

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
Matilda biscuits.
EASY

Meet the Matilda biscuits: they’re tough, spicy, and they’ll last, just like our soccer stars

Jill Dupleix baked a batch of biscuits and called them Matildas. Because they’re winners.

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Weekday lemon cake.

A sweet lemon cake so simple you can make it any day of the week

This melt-and-mix number is perfect for when cake is in order, but fuss is not.

  • Tilly Pamment
“There was always the scent of cooking in the air at home.”

Celebrity chef Poh on reconnecting with her food heritage after the death of her mum

The Malaysian-Australian cook and TV presenter credits her mum’s passion for making cakes and a family love of cooking for driving her own obsessiveness in the kitchen.

  • Jane Rocca
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s vanilla and ricotta cake.
  • Recipe collection
  • Cake

Hot from the oven: 10 new cake recipes to add to your to-bake list

Syrupy citrus cakes, flourless chocolate or seasonal fruit - you choose!

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Family-size beef and Guinness pie.

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.

Vietnamese banana bread
pudding with coconut caramel
sauce.

Vietnamese banana bread pudding with coconut caramel sauce

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

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Cheat’s banoffee millefeuille.
EASY

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
Curtis Stone’s pies filled with Irish beef and Guinness stew.

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.

Baking Yesteryear.

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.

  • B. Dylan Hollis