Bakes

This Hairy Bikers rough puff pastry recipe cuts cold butter into strong bread flour, then rolls and folds it six times for flaky layers. Plus one Perfect Pies batch lids a pie for 4 to 6 in 90 minutes with chilling, and I estimate 360 calories per sixth. They promise it “rises beautifully, is flaky …

This Hairy Bikers flapjack recipe packs porridge oats with butter, golden syrup and chopped dates, then studs them with raisins, glacé cherries and pecans. And one British Classics tray makes 10 big slices at about 630 calories each by my estimate, in 45 minutes plus cooling. Dave says flapjacks were “one of the first things …

This Hairy Bikers granola recipe bakes porridge oats, coconut and cashews in maple syrup and stem ginger, then mixes in raisins and dried mango. So the One Pot Wonders batch takes about 75 minutes plus cooling, and by my estimate makes 12 bowls of roughly 280 calories before milk. Writing their first Hairy Dieters book, …

This Hairy Bikers orange and almond cake recipe folds two whole boiled, blitzed oranges into whisked eggs, sugar and ground almonds instead of flour. So this Mediterranean Adventure cake serves 8 to 10, at about 365 calories a slice for ten by my estimate, taking up to 3½ hours. “A real sunshine cake” is their …

A Hairy Bikers soda bread recipe needs no yeast at all, because bicarb and buttermilk raise this brown Irish loaf of white and wholemeal flour. So cut into 12, the Brilliant Bakes round is roughly 175 calories a slice and on the table in about an hour. “Whenever we cook soda bread we wonder why …

This Hairy Bikers sticky date cake boils dates, raisins, sultanas and currants with butter and condensed milk, then bakes them slowly with marmalade. So at my 16 squares, rather than the 6 in Mums Know Best, it’s an estimated 385 calories a square and takes over 4 hours. A lady in a supermarket gave them …

This Hairy Bikers coffee kisses recipe rolls a rubbed-in coffee dough into small balls, then sandwiches the baked cookies in pairs with vanilla butter icing. Once paired, the Mums Know Best batch makes about 24 kisses in 70 minutes with cooling, at roughly 100 calories a kiss by my estimate. The recipe came from the …

This Hairy Bikers rocky road recipe melts Mars bars with butter, then stirs in shortbread chunks, marshmallows and Rice Krispies before it sets. With my 2-hour chill, the Mums Know Best tray takes 2 hours 20 minutes, and I cut 9 squares of an estimated 290 calories. Their verdict is “so easy to make and …

Cornflour keeps this Hairy Bikers empire biscuits recipe short, with seedless raspberry jam between two rounds and optional icing and a cherry on top. So their Mums Know Best batch makes 12, taking about an hour by my timings, with around 250 calories per twelfth by my estimate. The recipe is Mrs Miller’s, a lifelong …

For Hairy Bikers Viennese whirls, a dough of butter, icing sugar, flour and cornflour is piped into swirls, then filled with buttercream and cherry jam. With their Brilliant Bakes recipe you get about 16 sandwiches in 1 hour 35 minutes plus cooling, and my estimate is 305 calories a sandwich. Two of their books carry …