Dairy Free Sponge Cake
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Top Tips: Using cocoa powder turns this plain sponge into chocolate cake. Cooking times vary based on how big the baking trays are. When making 30 servings, we’d recommend splitting this into three large trays.
Coffee Sponge
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Apple Cheesecake
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Top Tips: Switch out the apple for any fruit you’ve got in the cupboards Mix up your choice of biscuit – ginger nuts, bourbons or whatever you fancy! If you want to save yourself the washing up, make it directly in your serving bowls as a deconstructed kind of dessert
Pear Cake
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Top Tips: To make the cake vegan use dairy-free margarine, replace the eggs with pureed pears (this works with other fruit too, such as bananas, apples or apricots), increase the flour slightly and add an extra dash of baking powder.
Pineapple Upside Down Cake
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Carrot Cake
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Top Tip: Cool on wire rack and ice with cream cheese icing when cool.