High tea at your favourite hotel is a special experience but when time and geography get in the way it’s just as easy to have your own at home. Get the kettle bubbling, bring out the old silverware, we’re bringing back the tea party with food fit for a queen.
These saffron sticky buns by Yotam Ottolenghi are bunbelievably good
Time to update your afternoon tea roster? Yotam Ottolenghi is here to help. These sweet buns – lightly spiced and brushed with syrup – will become your coffee’s new best friend.
Lemonade drizzle scones with lemon curd
Adding lemonade to the scone dough creates an ultra-fluffy result.
Chocolate and ginger teacake with cream cheese frosting
“Ginger, tea and dark chocolate are perfect partners for this rich teacake." – Lucy Busuttil.
Dried apricot and white chocolate buns
Preheat your oven, because Phoebe Wood has given us the best sweet bun recipe thus far, and it makes the most of what's already in the pantry.
We've taken the best parts of a ploughman's board and turned it into scones
These ploughman's scones pack a punch with extra cheese.
Mini gugulhupf cakes with cinnamon sugar
Serve these mini cakes while they are still warm for maximum enjoyment.
Forget sourdough, here's how to make sticky maple and pecan scrolls
Valli Little has really outdone herself this time.
Plum tray bake with white chocolate custard
We're never too full for plump plums in a bake, covered with oozing white chocolate custard.
Cherry, pistachio and marzipan cake
Fragrant and fresh, this beautiful fruit-laden cake is ideal for morning or afternoon tea, or as a special Christmas treat.
Macadamia and orange cake with burnt butter icing
If you've never indulged in browned butter before, you're in for quite a treat. Slowly heated until it transforms into a caramel colour, the butter becomes nutty, sweet and infinitely more-ish. Don't say we didn't warn you.
Roasted strawberry and cream pie
This pie plays on the classic combination of strawberries and cream that you grew up on as a child. This adults version is perfect for relaxed weekend entertaining.
Vegemite and smoked cheddar scrolls
Take your breakfast plans to the next level with these Aussie-as Vegemite and cheese hot cross scrolls.
It's impossible to stop at one of our vanilla cream scones with rhubarb-strawberry jam
Melt-in- your-mouth scones with homemade jam takes this recipe to another level.
Pumpkin lemonade scones
Two classic scone ingredients combine, in this pumpkin and lemonade recipe.
Blueberry scones
These scones are even more delicious with the addition of a punnet of blueberries.
Mixed apple and berry sponge pudding
This fruity winter pudding is perfect for cooler evenings.
It doesn't get more Aussie than these Vegemite and cheese scones
Love it or hate it, you can’t get much more Aussie than vegemite!
Coconut sponge with raspberries and mascarpone
Fluffy sponge, sweet raspberries and smooth mascarpone - this cake is pretty much heaven on a plate.
Rainy weekend? Time to get your retro bake on
Excuse us while we have a childhood flashback. These pink icing and coconut drizzled finger buns are super cute, and remind us of an old-school bakery. The best bit? Not only are they dead easy, but we have the fool-proof recipe right here.
Cinnamon pull-apart Easter bread
Part Easter bread, part hot cross bun, this icing-drizzled, cinnamon-scented bread is guaranteed to produce happy smiles and sticky fingers.
Blackberry and ginger pie
This recipe calls for frozen blackberries meaning it can be enjoyed year round.
Blackberry meringue pie
A dramatic and almost regal pie.
Spiced cherry and strawberry pie
Pie – is there anything more comforting or delicious? Golden, buttery pastry. Bubbling, sweet fruit. A generous dollop of cream (or ice cream!) on top... and coffee on the side. Now all you need is that new season of The White Lotus.
Jamie Oliver's baked berry cheesecake
Think you've had your fill of berry cheesecakes? Think again. This quick and easy recipe by Jamie Oliver is perfect served warm or cold - either way, you won't be able to resist going in for seconds.
Espresso martini layer cake
Warren Mendes takes an all time favourite co*cktail -the espresso martini, and turns it into a show-stopping crowd pleaser.
The new Black Forest cake
Decadent, rich and ready for a celebration - this cake is the ultimate showstopper. We've taken everything you love about the classic and upped the ante, including a Swiss meringue buttercream icing and a panna cotta filling. This one really is the cherry on the cake.
Banoffles - cookie dough waffle sandwiches with banoffee cheesecake
Take a lazy Sunday breakfast and pair it with rich banoffee cheesecake, and voila: the banoffle is born.
Naked pumpkin pie cheesecake with salted caramel
A pumpkin pie cheesecake with salted caramel? Need we say more? This sweet sensation will surely knock your socks off.
Gluten-free rose and pistachio cake
A few teaspoonfuls of rosewater, a handful of pistachios and a scattering of rose petals elevate this simple cream filled sponge to something exotically redolent of a Persian flower garden.
Matt Moran's panna cotta lamington cake with strawberry jam
Matt Moran's modern take on an Australian classic .
