Bakes

Hairy Bikers focaccia bread has been published three times across their books, and the dough gets wetter each time. This is the Mediterranean Adventure version, made with 500g of strong white flour, 325ml of water and 10g of yeast, baked in a tin rather than on a tray. They explain why there is a new …

The strawberries never go into Hairy Bikers strawberry and black pepper scones raw. They are roasted for an hour and a half at 120°C with sugar and pepper first, then folded into a plain scone dough. It makes 10 at roughly 270 calories each. This one comes from Hairy Bikers’ Best of British, the BBC …

Nothing gets rubbed in for Hairy Bikers ginger and treacle scones. The butter, sugar and treacle are melted together in a pan instead, which is why these come out dark and sticky rather than pale. Brilliant Bakes makes 12 at about 280 calories each. They call these hitting the jackpot in the book, dressed up …

Hairy Bikers tattie scones are fried, not baked, which puts them closer to a griddle bread than to anything else called a scone. Veggie Feasts makes six rounds from 500g of floury potatoes, cut into 24 pieces, at about 300 calories a round. They steam the potatoes rather than boiling them, and the book explains …

Hairy Bikers bacon scones are made with yeast, which is what separates them from every other scone in their books. Big Book of Baking publishes them as pogacsa, built on 250g of streaky bacon, soured cream and caraway seeds. It makes 12 at roughly 340 calories each. They write that pogacsa turns up in Hungarian …

Two eggs go into Hairy Bikers fruit scones, which is what separates them from a plain teatime batch. British Classics builds them on 400g of self-raising flour, 125g of butter and 100g of sultanas, and makes 8 to 12 at about 300 calories each. They open the recipe by counting up what they have baked …

The Marmite never touches the flour in Hairy Bikers cheese and Marmite scones. It gets whisked into warm milk first, until the milk turns the colour of milky coffee, and that mixture becomes both the liquid and the glaze. Veggie Feasts makes 8 to 9 at about 290 calories each. They warn you about overmixing …

Fifteen minutes of mixing and twenty in the oven is all the Hairy Bikers rock cakes ask for. One bowl makes eight craggy buns full of sultanas and glacé cherries, at about 345 calories each. Si bakes these thinking of “the tiny house in Team Valley, near Gateshead, where my Auntie Hilda and Uncle George …

This Hairy Bikers eccles cakes recipe comes from their Perfect Pies cookbook, and it makes 10 to 12 little currant pastries. Each one is about 250 calories, and the whole batch is done in 45 minutes. The same recipe also appears word for word in their Mums Know Best book, so they clearly trust it. …

Clotted cream and fresh strawberries fill this Hairy Bikers victoria sponge, so it eats like a summer dessert. The recipe sits in Brilliant Bakes at about 460 calories a slice, and takes 85 minutes plus cooling. “We doff our caps to the WI for this one,” the book says, “they know what makes a good …