Cupcakes & muffins

• Baking

Adam Liaw’s white chocolate and caramel muffins

The addition of caramel chips along with the white chocolate helps to give these muffins an extra-rich flavour.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Adam Liaw

• Recipe collection
• Baking

Five sweet and juicy ways to celebrate summer stone fruit (feat. Adam Liaw’s mix-and-pour peach cake)

Blink and you’ll miss stone fruit season. From cardamom-spiced plum cakes to a cheeky riff on an American classic, here are five ways to get your fix.

• Cookbook extracts

Chrissie Swan’s cafe-style white chocolate and raspberry muffins are perfect for lunchboxes

Bake these treats in brown paper liners for muffins that look, and taste, every bit as good as the expensive cafe varieties.

• Chrissie Swan

• Baking

Helen Goh’s nectarine, pistachio and brown-butter friands make the perfect January treat

These little nectarine and brown-butter cakes suit January’s rhythm perfectly: hot days, long matches on TV, slow drifting between indoors and out.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Helen Goh

• Baking

When you need cake in two minutes flat, it’s Adam Liaw’s mocha mug cake to the rescue

Make a batch of this mug cake mix and keep it in the pantry and you’ll never be more than two minutes away from a delicious, freshly made dessert.

• < 30 mins
• Adam Liaw

• Olympics

The hottest item at the Olympics is a chocolate muffin

On a quest to fuel himself with thousands of calories a day, Olympic swimmer Henrik Christiansen found an unexpected delight and shared it with the world.

• Remy Tumin

• Baking

Morning Glory breakfast loaf

The hefty, healthy apple, pecan, carrot and raisin muffins never go out of style, says Helen Goh. Here she adapts her recipe into a loaf cake.

• 1-2 hrs
• Helen Goh

• Baking

Terrible at small talk? How baking can break down barriers and win friends

Miss your old mates, or need fresh ways to find new ones? Baking queen Katherine Sabbath shows how the social power of a handmade treat can work wonders.

• Megan Johnston

• Baking

Scandinavian baking project: Runeberg cakes with Biscoff, almond, orange and cardamom

These little cakes from Finland are traditionally made in tall, cylindrical moulds, but a muffin tin will also work.

• 1-2 hrs
• Helen Goh

• Baking

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

Don’t like bran muffins? Helen Goh’s rich and deeply flavoured recipe might change your mind.

• 30 mins - 1 hr
• Helen Goh