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Chocolate loaf cake topped with mascarpone icing, red jam and flowers.

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Home baker’s dozen: 13 fabulous new cakes to make for Mother’s Day

Does your Mum love Ab Fab? She’ll love Danielle Alvarez’s absolutely fabulous chocolate loaf loaded with hand-whipped icing swirled with jam and strewn with flowers – it’s gorgeous, no matter how messy its decoration gets. These recipes range from child’s play (most of the loaves) to proper roll-up-your-sleeves weekend baking projects (see: Beatrix Bakes).

13 recipes
Danielle Alvarez’s chocolate loaf cake with mascarpone icing.
EASY

Danielle Alvarez’s Mother’s Day chocolate loaf cake with mascarpone icing and jam

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s Earl Grey loaf cake with lemon icing.
EASY

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s Earl Grey loaf cake with lemon icing

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura

Scandinavian ‘Runeberg cakes’ with Biscoff, almond, orange and cardamom

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Any citrus works well here, but the pink grapefruit is particularly lovely.

‘Le Weekend’ loaf aka Helen Goh’s French-style pound cake with pink grapefruit

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
EASY

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s spiced apple cake with mascarpone-maple frosting

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Everyday chocolate cake with whipped cocoa cream.
EASY

Helen Goh’s ‘world’s best chocolate cake’ version 2.0 (with whipped cocoa cream)

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
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Helen Goh’s berry and custard traybake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Cocoa sour cream layer cake from Beatrix Bakes: Another Slice by Natalie Paull (Hardie Grant Books, RRP $50.

Melbourne bake shop Beatrix’s cocoa sour cream layer cake with raspberries

  • Natalie Paull
French apple cake.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s French apple cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Apple and pecan crumble cake.

Helen Goh’s apple and pecan double-crumble loaf cake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Vanilla and ricotta cake.
EASY

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

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura

This lovely layered lemon cake combines two favourite citrus recipes in one

  • Eleanor Ford
Chocolate loaf with vanilla cream.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s chocolate loaf with vanilla cream

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw

Original URL: https://www.watoday.com.au/goodfood/recipes/home-baker-s-dozen-13-fabulous-new-cakes-to-make-for-mother-s-day-20240509-p5ir1j.html