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Helen Goh's favourite orange cake.

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More baking recipes from Helen Goh

Pastry chef Helen Goh is a talented Melburnian who works in London alongside superstar chef Yotam Ottolenghi.

49 recipes
Grilled cherries with zabaglione.

Grilled cherries with plum wine zabaglione

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Limoncello mousse topped with berries and served with optional coconut wafers (left).

Limoncello mousse with berries and coconut wafers

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
This pretty cake is perfect for afternoon tea.
EASY

Strawberry, elderflower and pistachio cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Really good cheese and pepper crackers.
EASY

Cheese and pepper crackers

  • < 30 mins
  • Helen Goh
The addition of chocolate in this cake might convert fruitcake-haters.

Helen Goh's chocolate and amaretto fruitcake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Helen Goh's summery cheesecake.
EASY

Mango, lime and macadamia cheesecake bars

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
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This cake is like a tray-baked cinnamon doughnut.

Moravian sugar cake with walnuts and cinnamon

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
Pastizzi with a cheesy pea filling.
EASY

Easy-peasy pea pastizzi

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
This cake swaps carrot for beetroot - but keeps the cream cheese icing.

Beetroot, pineapple and coconut cake with cream cheese icing

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Serve these potato farls alongside soup.
EASY

Baked potato farls

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Spiced lentil and vegetable pasties sprinkled with cumin seeds.

Spiced lentil and vegetable pasties

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
Helen Goh's pineapple skillet cake.

Helen Goh's pineapple and ricotta skillet cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Galician almond tart aka tarta Santiago.

Galician almond tart

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Star-spangled sponge traybake.

Star-spangled cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
This recipe was a closely-guarded secret, until now.
EASY

My favourite orange cake

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
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Serve a slice of this malt loaf with butter and a cup of tea.
EASY

Malt loaf with pear and rooibos

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Ginger-infused custard with roasted rhubarb.

Helen Goh's ginger creme brulee with roasted rhubarb

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Anzac biscuit-inspired oat slice with coconut caramel topping.
EASY

Helen Goh's caramelised Anzac bars

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Swedish-style cream buns with almond and cardamom.

Helen Goh's semlor buns

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
Helen Goh: "I do urge you to try the bay seasoning in this strudel."

Helen Goh's apple, blackberry and bay leaf strudel

  • Helen Goh
Irish whiskey-soaked fruit cake.
EASY

Helen Goh's Irish whiskey fruit cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Cherry, pistachio and lemon cake.

Helen Goh's cherry, lemon and pistachio loaf cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Helen Goh's simplified take on the Hungarian chocolate cake.

Helen Goh's Rigo Jancsi cake (flourless chocolate mousse cake)

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
These sweet, sticky sesame rice balls often roll around on yum cha trolleys.

Helen Goh's jian dui (crispy sesame balls)

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
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And for our next trick: this spicy, nutty caramel popcorn will disappear.

Helen Goh's caramelised sriracha popcorn

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Peach trifle with raspberries and sweet riesling custard.

Helen Goh’s peach trifle with raspberries and sweet riesling custard

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
No-churn roasted strawberry and mint ice-cream with almond brittle.

No-churn, roasted-strawberry and mint ice-cream

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
A portable traycake with passionfruit icing.
EASY

Passionfruit picnic cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Coconut and almond macaroons.

Coconut and almond macaroons

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
Napkin cakes with kaya and pandan.

Helen Goh's pandan napkin cakes with coconut custard

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Coconut sponge sandwiched with papaya compote and coconut cream.

Helen Goh's coconut sponge with lime and papaya compote

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
The medieval English ritual of 'souling' involved children going door to door, offering a prayer for the departed in return for a sweet soul cake.

Soul cakes

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
This loaf is packed full of seasonal vegetables.

Helen Goh's zaatar and spring vegetable loaf

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Bread-and-butter pudding meets flourless orange cake.

Helen Goh's blood orange portokalopita

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
With a little acidity from the yoghurt, a clove of garlic, a handful of cheese and chopped jalapenos, these scones are packed with flavour.

Helen Goh's jalapeno and cheddar scones

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Brownie pudding with poached pears.

Helen Goh's pear and ginger brownie pudding

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh