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Baking

Baking in an ovenproof serving dish makes for a beautiful dessert to serve at the table on Father’s Day.

Sticky date pudding with tahini butterscotch sauce

The sesame paste imparts a deliciously nutty flavour to this classic dessert.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Plain old lemon tart.

How to make this elegant lemon tart from cult Melbourne pastry shop Tarts Anon

This fragrant, zingy dessert is the perfect balance of creamy sweetness and sour refreshment.

  • Gareth Whitton and Catherine Way
Saint Phanourios cake includes walnuts and orange and spiced with cinnamon and cloves.
EASY

Saint Phanourios cake (aka fanouropita) with orange, apple and walnut

You won’t easily forget this cake “for lost things”.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Mocha mug cake.
EASY

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
Julia’s tip: You can use baby spinach in the filling but English spinach has a far superior flavour.

20 crowd-pleasing Julia Busuttil Nishimura recipes for every occasion

The Good Weekend and Good Food columnist and master of wholesome home cooking shares 20 golden recipes the whole crowd will love.

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Helen Goh’s French onion loaf.

French onion loaf

Helen Goh transforms the classic French soup into a soft and tasty loaf.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Emelia Jackson’s perfect black forest cake.

This retro celebration cake will never go out of fashion. Here’s the secret to whipping up a great one

Bring out a black forest cake – a high-rise stack of airy chocolate sponges, sweet-sour cherries and clouds of cream – then stand back and soak up the accolades.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Emelia Jackson
Danielle Alvarez’s double lemon cake with vanilla sugar.
  • Recipe collection
  • Cake

Five zingy lemon cakes to bake this weekend

Pro tip: Use your fingertips to rub the zest into the sugar to release the oils and enhance the citrus flavour.

Danielle Alvarez’s double lemon cake with vanilla sugar.
EASY

Double-lemon loaf cake with sugar crust

Danielle Alvarez’s lemon cake of dreams also happens to be dairy-free.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Helen Goh’s tartiflette galette.

Tartiflette galette (cheese and potato tart)

Two classic French recipes combine to create this open-faced, cheese-and-potato pie.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh