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Bake a cake for dad on Father's Day

Coffee and/or booze-splashed bakes and desserts to make for your old man this weekend, whatever his tipple of choice may be, from a cup of tea to whisky.

20 recipes
Serve this orange cake with cold custard or cream.

Warm orange and whisky upside-down cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Andrew McConnell
Coconut chocolate marble cake, with a chocolate bourbon glaze, by Dan Lepard.

Coconut chocolate marble cake with chocolate bourbon glaze

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Dan Lepard
Peanut butter cream pie.
EASY

Peanut butter and banana cream pie

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Maple glazed baked cheesecake.

Karen Martini's maple and walnut baked cheesecake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Helen Goh's Irish coffee cake recipe.

Irish coffee cake with Bailey's filling

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Chocolate, licorice and caramel cake.

Chocolate licorice loaf cake with choc-licorice crumb and caramel

  • Katrina Meynink
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Dan Lepard's sticky, boozy coconut rum cake.

Molasses and coconut rum cake with vanilla and coconut icing

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Dan Lepard
Danielle Alvarez's milk-soaked cake decorated with soft Swiss meringue and dulce de leche.

Banana, caramel and rum tres leches cake

  • 2 hrs +
  • Danielle Alvarez
Coffee crumble cake.

Coffee crumble cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Walnut, macadamia and honey tart.

Walnut, macadamia and honey tart

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Chocolate layer cake with pecan and coconut icing.
EASY

Adam Liaw's 'German' chocolate cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Irish tea cake.

Irish tea cake

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Flat white tiramisu.

Flat white tiramisu

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
bread butter pud

Rum, raisin and chocolate bread and butter pudding

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Luke Mangan
Jill Dupleix's take on Russian sharlotka with whisky toffee sauce.

Russian apple cake with whisky toffee sauce

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
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Three Blue Ducks' "too good to share" chocolate and walnut brownie with whisky cream.
EASY

Chocolate walnut brownie with hazelnut whisky cream

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LeBrooy
Helen Goh's next-level banana cake with coffee caramel.

Banana and coffee bundt cake with coffee caramel

  • Helen Goh
Next-level pecan pie with a layer of dark chocolate ganache.

Chocolate ganache and espresso, buckwheat and pecan caramel pie

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Helen Goh's apple cake, icing and praline optional.

Apple cake with maple cream cheese icing and caramelised walnuts

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Date and whisky cake

Date and whisky cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jane and Jeremy Strode
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