Purple velvet cupcakes with blackberry frosting

Use up an abundance of blackberries with these irresistible chocolate and berry cupcakes – they’re almost too pretty to eat

Blackberry & apple frozen yogurt cake

Layers of frozen yogurt are given a crunchy contrast with an oaty biscuit base in this impressive pud – a great alternative to cheesecake

Courgette & orange cake with cream cheese frosting

Forget the carrot cake, this light, moist courgette cake is packed with flavour and it goes perfectly with a cup of tea

Orange & apricot loaf cake

A classic fruit sponge cake with apricots and citrus shared by reader Ann Turner – it’s perfect with a cup of tea

Peach & red berry ice cream cake

This dessert is one seriously cool customer – layer vanilla sponge with mascarpone fruit ice cream and berries

Cherry brownie babycakes

Beautiful individual chocolate brownie cakes with a dollop of softly whipped cream and extra fruit for garnish

Raspberry caramel ombre cake

This stunning layer cake with coloured cream cheese frosting is perfect for a birthday, wedding or other special occasion

Brazilian chocolate truffles – brigadeiro

Roll up these traditional South American sweets and coat in traditional pistachio nut, almond and coconut crumble

Chocolate cherry Bakewell cake

An irresistible almond sponge, studded with juicy cherries and chocolate chunks, that’ll keep in your cake tin for a few days – if it lasts that long!

Frances Quinn’s Summer’s day wedding cake

Frances creates her own version of the latest bridal trend – the ‘naked’ cake. She skips the traditional fondant icing for mascarpone seasonal berries.

Gooseberry coconut cake

Creamy coconut complements tart fruit really well. The gooseberries disappear into the cake batter keeping the sponge extra moist

Chocolate fondants

It doesn’t get much more indulgent than these classic melt-in-the-middle chocolate desserts, serve them at your next dinner party