Bakes

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 …

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 …