Chocolate layer cake with passion fruit icing

Great British Bake Off winner Jo Wheatley shares her never-fail sponge recipe in this layered cake with a zingy butter icing

Chocolate, raspberry & rose Battenberg gateau

Traditional Battenberg is given a bakeover with this chocolate, rose and raspberry chequerboard cake

Hedgehog cake

A celebration cake with a touch of woodland style, this chocolate cake is decorated with edible spikes, buttercream and chocolate details

Toasted marshmallow & ginger cake

Decorative Italian meringue masks a spicy, moist ginger cake layered with ginger buttercream- an amazing bake!

Utterly nutterly caramel layer cake

The toffee nut topping gives this sponge the edge- we used Brazil nuts, hazelnut, pecans and almonds

Cappuccino cake

If you’ve offered to bake a treat for a stall or your local coffee morning then this cake stall classic is just the thing

Chocolate birthday cake

We used colourful candles rather than artificial sweets to brighten up this tasty birthday cake

Catherine Berwick’s Parsnip & maple syrup cake

The winner of Good Food’s 20th birthday cake competition, we think this is the new carrot cake

Louise Read’s Coffee crunch cake

This recipe pairs a nutty meringue with coffee-flavoured Victoria sponge. No wonder it made it into the top three in our 20th birthday cake competition

Banoffee marshmallow cake

This fun cake won the 11-17 age group in our 20th birthday cake competition