Cupcakes & muffins
Adam Liaw’s orange and almond mug cake
This super-simple mug cake can be made in minutes using ingredients you might already have in your fridge and pantry.
- < 30 mins
- Adam Liaw
Karen Martini shares the secrets to her best-ever banana bread and next-level muffins
The savoury-leaning chef yields to sugary cravings with these moreish bakes – essential afternoon treats plucked from her new cookbook.
- Karen Martini
School holiday baking: Adam Liaw gives choc-chip muffins a little change-up
Two other types of chocolate chips help give these muffins an extra-rich flavour.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Adam Liaw
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- Baking
Five sweet and juicy ways to celebrate summer stone fruit (feat. Adam Liaw’s mix-and-pour peach cake)
Blink and you’ll miss stone fruit season. From cardamom-spiced plum cakes to a cheeky riff on an American classic, here are five ways to get your fix.
Chrissie Swan’s cafe-style white chocolate and raspberry muffins are perfect for lunchboxes
Bake these treats in brown paper liners for muffins that look, and taste, every bit as good as the expensive cafe varieties.
- Chrissie Swan
Helen Goh’s nectarine, pistachio and brown-butter friands make the perfect January treat
These little nectarine and brown-butter cakes suit January’s rhythm perfectly: hot days, long matches on TV, slow drifting between indoors and out.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Helen Goh
When you need cake in two minutes flat, it’s Adam Liaw’s mocha mug cake to the rescue
Make a batch of this mug cake mix and keep it in the pantry and you’ll never be more than two minutes away from a delicious, freshly made dessert.
- < 30 mins
- Adam Liaw
The hottest item at the Olympics is a chocolate muffin
On a quest to fuel himself with thousands of calories a day, Olympic swimmer Henrik Christiansen found an unexpected delight and shared it with the world.
- Remy Tumin
Morning Glory breakfast loaf
The hefty, healthy apple, pecan, carrot and raisin muffins never go out of style, says Helen Goh. Here she adapts her recipe into a loaf cake.
- 1-2 hrs
- Helen Goh
Terrible at small talk? How baking can break down barriers and win friends
Miss your old mates, or need fresh ways to find new ones? Baking queen Katherine Sabbath shows how the social power of a handmade treat can work wonders.
- Megan Johnston