Bakes

There is no flour in Hairy Bikers chocolate hazelnut cake, which makes it gluten free without trying to be. That recipe is in Big Book of Baking, where it serves ten at about 630 calories over 2 hours 18 minutes. It was built as “a birthday cake for Italy”, made by Si and Dave in …

Hairy Bikers chocolate cake exists because readers kept asking for one, and the book says so outright. It is in Everyday Winners, where two 20cm sponges serve eight to ten, and the whole thing comes together in about 2 hours. What lifts it above a standard sponge is that both cocoa and dark chocolate go …

239 calories a slice is printed above the recipe, so the number is theirs and not mine. Hairy Bikers diet carrot cake sits on page 156 of The Hairy Dieters, where it serves ten and takes 1 hour 48 minutes. Si and Dave admit in The Hairy Dieters that you cannot be eating cake every …

Twelve squares come out of one 20cm tin, because Hairy Bikers carrot cake is a tray bake and not a layer cake. The recipe sits in British Classics, and each square works out at roughly 490 calories over a total of 2 hours 3 minutes. “A good old British tray bake that’s dead easy to …

Hairy Bikers ginger sponge is Grandma Sindy’s recipe, passed down through Ruth’s family from Sunday teas at her house. It is in Mums Still Know Best, where eight ingredients make about 12 squares at roughly 175 calories, and only ten minutes of the 1 hour 48 are hands on. Si and Dave write in Mums …

Hairy Bikers ginger cake recipe comes with an instruction most cakes do not, which is to wrap it up and wait. That recipe is in British Classics, where six spices and a jar of stem ginger feed eight at about 550 calories, though the whole thing takes 1 hour 42 minutes including cooling. Dave writes …

Bramleys are the whole point of this Hairy Bikers apple pie recipe, 600g of them sliced thin with cinnamon and cornflour. Perfect Pies calls it the perfect apple pie, and 6 slices come in at about 740 calories after 1 hour 35. Nothing tastes better than an apple pie, Si and Dave reckon, calling theirs …

Hairy Bikers pineapple upside down cake is their peach version from Brilliant Bakes with rings swapped in, because they never published a pineapple one. That base is built on brown butter, so 10 slices come in at 370 calories each across 1 hour 55. Their peach original was, in their words, “inspired by our travels …

Marmalade is what sets Hairy Bikers Dundee cake apart, along with mixed dried fruit, ground almonds and a splash of whisky. Those go into the British Classics version, which gives 10 slices at 520 calories each across 3 hours 35. Arranging the blanched almonds in circles on top is a job Si and Dave call …

Hairy Bikers coffee and walnut cake is a two layer sponge, where Camp chicory and coffee essence flavours both the crumb and the buttercream. That recipe sits in Mums Still Know Best, and it gives 12 slices at 540 calories in about 2 hours 40. Si and Dave call it “one of our very favourite …