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35 great rainy day baking recipes

Too wet to pop to the shops? Try these simple bakes using pantry staples, instead.

35 recipes
Serve this apple cake with double cream.

Warm apple, brown butter and almond cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
This recipe was a closely-guarded secret, until now.
EASY

Helen Goh's favourite orange cake

  • 2 hrs +
  • Helen Goh
These gooey-centred brownies just so happen to be gluten-free.
EASY

Gluten-free chocolate, buckwheat and sea salt brownies

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Chocolate layer cake with pecan and coconut icing.
EASY

Adam Liaw's 'German' chocolate cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
This crumble-topped loaf cake is inspired by Anzac biscuits.

Helen Goh's Anzac cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Upside down caramel pear cake

Upside down caramel pear cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Caroline Velik
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Adam Liaw's Chocolate Monte Carlos.
EASY

Chocolate Monte Carlos biscuits

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Peanutty brownies with a hidden caramel centre.

Dark chocolate, peanut butter and dulce de leche brownies

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Strawberry and yoghurt cake.
EASY

Strawberry and yoghurt cake

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Chocolate and coconut banana bread.
EASY

Chocolate and coconut banana bread

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Cinnamon crumb pound cake.

Cinnamon crumb pound cake recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Jill Dupleix's favourite chocolate cake.

'Incredibly Wonderful Chocolate Cake'

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
Peanut butter and chocolate cookies.
EASY

Peanut butter cookies with oats and dark chocolate

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Dense or fluffy – you choose.
EASY

White chocolate and roasted macadamia blondies

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
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EASY

Chocolate butterfly cakes

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
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Lemon yoghurt syrup cake

Lemon yoghurt syrup cake

  • < 30 mins
  • Caroline Velik
Coconut chocolate marble cake, with a chocolate bourbon glaze, by Dan Lepard.

Coconut chocolate marble cake with chocolate glaze

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Dan Lepard
Pair a piece of cake with a glass of port.
EASY

Portuguese orange, olive, honey and almond cake recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Helen Goh's next-level banana cake with coffee caramel.

Banana, coffee and cardamom bundt cake

  • Helen Goh
Dan Lepard's plain butter cake.
EASY

Vanilla butter birthday cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Dan Lepard
Helen Goh's Moroccan spiced tea loaf recipe.
EASY

Moroccan spiced tea loaf

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Helen Goh's desert island cake.
EASY

Helen Goh's lemon and raspberry loaf cake recipe

  • Helen Goh
Chocolate rose marble cake.

Gluten-free chocolate rose marble cake

  • 1-2 hrs
Toasted almond madeira cake.

Toasted almond madeira cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Dan Lepard
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Thin and crispy choc-chip bikkies.
EASY

Thin, crisp choc-chip biscuits recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Dan Lepard
Simple coffee and cream sponge cake.

Simple coffee and cream sponge cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Lamington cupcakes

Lamington cupcakes

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Caroline Velik
Orange cake

Orange cake

  • < 30 mins
  • Caroline Velik
Adam Liaw's carrot cupcakes with dill.

Carrot cupcakes

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
A new take on pineapple upside-down cake.

Helen Goh's salted pineapple and brown sugar cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
This blueberry bake is somewhere between a pudding and cake.
EASY

Blueberry spoon cake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
If you have a sweet tooth, these salted honey and tahini shortbreads will help you limit your after dinner snacking.
EASY

Salted honey and tahini shortbread

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Bacon, beer and onion quickbread.
EASY

Helen Goh's bacon, beer and onion loaf

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Lemon yoghurt cupcakes.
EASY

Lemon yoghurt cupcakes

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Butter cake with a golden Anzac biscuit topping.
EASY

Adam Liaw's biscuit cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
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