Dessert: Immerse yourself in simplicity and pleasure with our plain cake, a recipe that is as easy to make as it is delicious ...

My new favorite cake has a judgy name. “It’s called lazy daisy cake,” my friend Ursula Reshoft-Hegewisch said as she handed ...

Place the icing sugar, cocoa and butter in a mixing bowl ... In honour of that beautiful tree, and the philosophy of The Plain Cake Appreciation Society – the appreciation of good, simple ...

Whether you’re helping the kids with a Mother’s Day cake or just fancy a weekend treat, these recipes are sweet to eat, yet ...

Grease and line a 25cm/10in cake tin with baking paper. Put the oil, treacle, syrup and sugar in a large ... Put the white icing in a piping bag fitted with a small plain nozzle.

In a separate bowl, cream the butter and sugar together ... court you piped onto the cake). Spoon the remaining white icing into a piping bag fitted with a number 2 plain nozzle and pipe the ...

The frosting is a “lazy” mix of melted butter, brown sugar and coconut — because sluggish bakers deserve nice treats, too.

Dusted with confectioner's sugar, a slice of this dense ... that keeps them somewhat separate — for this cake, that means one full layer of plain batter, then a layer of chocolate, and a final ...

It was so plain it verged on homely ... lighter than butter cake, more tender than spongecake. It was covered with a brown sugar frosting that managed to be both brittle and candylike at the ...