Bakes

This Hairy Bikers easy tarte tatin recipe caramelises 300g of apricots under puff pastry, and it serves 6 at 355 calories a slice. Since Si and Dave first baked it in France for Bakeation, it has sat in Big Book of Baking, and it needs 65 minutes. Si and Dave call apricots “sunshine on a …

Hairy Bikers parkin recipe is a soft, syrupy ginger cake built on self-raising flour rather than the usual oatmeal. So 115g of golden syrup and one teaspoon of ground ginger carry the whole thing, which gives eight slices at roughly 275 calories. That version is theirs from Meals on Wheels on BBC Two, and it …

“A really grown-up dessert” is how they put it in Brilliant Bakes, and Hairy Bikers key lime pie began with gin and lime cordial. So it serves six at around 620 calories, though most of that time is the pie sitting in the fridge. Dave’s mam drank gin and lime cordial, and the chocolate lime …

Golden syrup soaks into white breadcrumbs in Hairy Bikers treacle tart, and a whole 454g can goes in. So the Perfect Pies version serves eight at around 495 calories, and it is done in about an hour and a half. They are blunt about the name in Perfect Pies, writing that “it’s always called treacle …

Eight egg yolks set the filling in Hairy Bikers lemon meringue pie, which is double what most recipes ask for. So the Perfect Pies version serves eight at around 655 calories, and the whole thing takes about two hours. A deep fluted tin matters here, because they wrote in Perfect Pies that this is “as …

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 …