Baking

• Recipe collection
• Cake

Five zingy lemon cakes to bake this weekend

Pro tip: Use your fingertips to rub the zest into the sugar to release the oils and enhance the citrus flavour.

• Lemon

Double-lemon loaf cake with sugar crust

Danielle Alvarez’s lemon cake of dreams also happens to be dairy-free.

• 1-2 hrs
• Danielle Alvarez

• Pastry

Tartiflette galette (cheese and potato tart)

Two classic French recipes combine to create this open-faced, cheese-and-potato pie.

• 1-2 hrs
• Helen Goh

• Cream & milk

Adam Liaw’s citrus syrup yoghurt loaf

This simple stir-and-bake loaf cake makes excellent use of abundant winter citrus.

• 1-2 hrs
• Adam Liaw

• Coconut

Lime and triple coconut sheet cake

This tropical traybake will brighten the dreariest winter’s day.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Julia Busuttil Nishimura

• Recipe collection
• Biscuit

Five old-fashioned biscuit recipes to bake this weekend

Take a (melting) moment for yourself this weekend with a freshly baked bikkie and a cup of tea.

• Nuts

Almond shortbread jam (or marmalade) drops

You can use any kind of jam, but I recommend a particular kumquat marmalade for these thumbprint biscuits.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Helen Goh

• Winter warmer

Helen Goh’s lemon self-saucing pudding with extra zing

This pudding works equally well as a soothing, warm dessert on a cold night or as a satisfying end to a Sunday-lunch roast.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Helen Goh

• Recipe collection
• Banana

20 sweet and squishy dishes to go bananas over

Whether you pair the fruit with caramel, chocolate or keep it simple, you’re sure to find an agreeable recipe among this bunch.

• Banana

Helen Goh’s next-level banoffee pie with miso caramel, double banana and rye-cocoa crust

The only downside to this banana and caramel tart is you’ll end up eating more of it than you’d planned.

• 1-2 hrs
• Helen Goh