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10 juicy fruit-filled bakes to celebrate the start of summer

What better way to bring in summer than to fill the kitchen with sweet, berry and cherry-laden baking aromas?

10 recipes
Lemonade scone slab with strawberry jam, cream and fresh strawberries.
EASY

Scone slab with chunky strawberry jam and cream

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Helen Goh's desert island cake.
EASY

Helen Goh's lemon and raspberry loaf cake recipe

  • Helen Goh
Helen Goh developed this recipe after a friend's take on her chocolate cake converted her to traybakes.
EASY

Raspberry, pistachio and lime traybake with cream cheese icing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
These financiers use olive oil instead of the traditional beurre noisette.

Cherry, lemon and olive oil financiers

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Scones meet strawberry shortcakes - the creme fraiche makes for a deliciously tender dough.

Strawberry, lime and creme fraiche scones

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s lemon ciambella (Italian ring cake).
EASY

Lemon ciambella (Italian ring cake)

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
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This pretty cake is perfect for afternoon tea.
EASY

Strawberry, elderflower and pistachio cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Refreshing and fruity: passionfruit syrup cake with mango salsa.

Passionfruit syrup cake with mango salsa

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Strawberry and almond cream tart.

Strawberry and almond cream tart

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
This blueberry bake is somewhere between a pudding and cake.
EASY

Blueberry spoon cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez