For me, Blondies should be made with melted white chocolate in the mixture - just as a Brownie has melted dark chocolate. This recipe gives a fudgy texture. If you prefer them more cakey, add an extra quarter teaspoon of baking powder and leave them in the oven a little bit longer. For the jammy swirl here, you can use pretty much any type of sweet spread from a jar. You don't have to keep it fruity - all supermarkets now have a wide selection of nut butter and chocolat

Banana cake was one of the first recipes I adapted and perfected to my own tastes, back when I opened my little sandwich shop in 2008. The addition of the dark muscovado sugar was a chance I took, when I ran out of caster sugar - and it became my secret ingredient from then on. It elevates it from a decent cake, to a really bloody luvvley cake. By all

This is a great beginner recipe, using the 'egg weigh method' of creating the perfect sponge. If your eggs weigh 370g, or 430g, just measure out the other main ingredients to that weight as well. For perfect results, have EVERY ingredient at room temperature, and mix as lightly as possible once the flour is in there. This buttercream recipe is what's referred to in baking circles as ABC - American buttercream, but it's the classic buttercream we all grew up