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Olive oil can be used in all types of cooking, including baking, as in this orange, almond and olive oil cake.

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Simply the zest: The 25 most popular cakes and bakes of 2023

This year, Good Food’s annual recipe advent calendar counted down the year’s most clicked cakes and bakes. Here are the top 25.

25 recipes
20-minute cheesecake.
EASY

25. Adam Liaw’s 20-minute cheesecake

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Quince, cinnamon and ginger cake. Styling by Hannah Meppem. Food preparation by Breesa Swann.
EASY

24. Helen Goh’s quince (or apple), cinnamon and ginger cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Adam Liaw’s big, fat Easter egg cookies. Styling by Hannah Meppem.
EASY

23. Adam Liaw’s big, fat Easter egg cookies

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Emelia Jackson’s lemon syrup loaf cake.
EASY

22. Emelia Jackson’s lemon syrup loaf cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Emelia Jackson
Adam Liaw’s banana biscuits.
EASY

21. Adam Liaw’s banana biscuits

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Helen Goh’s flourless chocolate crater cake.

20. Helen Goh’s flourless chocolate crater cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
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Helen Goh’s bran muffins with date molasses and kefir.
EASY

19. Helen Goh’s healthy bran muffins to make today and enjoy during the week

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Helen Goh’s Brazilian-inspired carrot cake.
EASY

18. Helen Goh’s Brazilian-style carrot cake with coconut and ginger

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s blueberry sour cream cake.
EASY

17. Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s simple blueberry sour cream cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Chocolate loaf with vanilla cream.
EASY

16. Adam Liaw’s chocolate loaf with vanilla cream

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
RecipeTin Eats’ strawberry cheesecake sundae pots.
EASY

15. RecipeTin Eats’ strawberry cheesecake sundae pots

  • < 30 mins
  • Nagi Maehashi
Chocolate and almond pasticcini
EASY

14. Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s chocolate and almond pasticcini

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Serve without the whipped cream for a dairy-free dessert.

13. Helen Goh’s flourless fig, hazelnut and chocolate torte

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Brown butter, macadamia and white chocolate blondies.
EASY

12. Danielle Alvarez’s golden ‘blondie’ slab with white chocolate and macadamia

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Seed, date, walnut and maple breakfast loaf
EASY

11. Karen Martini’s seed, date, walnut and maple breakfast loaf

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
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Helen Goh’s raspberry and lemon curd cake.
EASY

10. Helen Goh’s raspberry and lemon curd cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Adam Liaw’s apple and pear cake.
EASY

9. Adam Liaw’s apple and pear cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Emelia Jackson recipe: Perfect chocolate eclairs.

8. Emelia Jackson’s eclairs (and the secret to her MasterChef-famous choux pastry)

  • 2 hrs +
  • Emelia Jackson
Vanilla and ricotta cake.
EASY

7. Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s vanilla and ricotta cake with lemon icing

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
This classic dessert covers caramel and custard techniques.

6. Adam Liaw’s classic creme caramel

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Mandarin and yoghurt cake with cardamom syrup.

5. Helen Goh’s mandarin and yoghurt cake with cardamom syrup

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Emelia Jackson’s Chocolate and malt self-saucing pudding.
EASY

4. Emelia Jackson’s no-stress, soft-centred chocolate puddings make a deliciously simple dessert

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Emelia Jackson
Emelia Jackson’s spiced apple layer cake with burnt butter cream cheese icing.
EASY

3. Emelia Jackson’s apple layer cake with brown butter icing

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Emelia Jackson
Matilda biscuits.
EASY

2. The Matilda biscuits are tough, spicy and they’ll last, just like our soccer stars

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
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Adam Liaw’s orange, almond and olive oil cake.
EASY

1. Adam Liaw’s orange, olive oil and almond cake

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
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