Italian cake recipes

Treat your guests with this stunning summer dessert, perfect for al fresco dinner parties

Enjoy this honeyed Tuscan dessert with candied peel at the end of a meal with sweet wine or coffee, or wrap up and give as a homemade Christmas gift

A delicious cake from in and around the convents of Sicily

Give your dessert an Italian flavour with this moist and fruity polenta cake

A rustic Italian-style cake made with olive oil as well as butter. Wonderful eaten warm with a scoop of ice cream for pud

Try a blackberry twist on tiramisu with a silky chocolate sauce to finish. It's a great dessert to finish a Sunday lunch menu or for a dinner party.

The perfect cake for Prosecco lovers, with the Italian tipple finding its way into the cake, boozy buttercream and Prosecco-flavoured sweet topping

Prove your baking skills this Christmas with a fluffy, lighter-than-air classic Italian sweetbread, packed with festive flavours and candied fruit

Give your sponge an Italian twist with Jane Hornby's easy-to-make polenta cake

Take lemon meringue to a new level with this caramel-infused sponge filled with lemon curd and topped with Italian meringue

If you’ve been given a panettone over
Christmas but you’re not sure what to do
with it, try this superfast,
special stacked cake

This creamy chocolate and coffee layer cake has real wow factor and is ideal for a celebration

The perfect treat to serve up for Boxing Day brunch, panettone is easy to make if you have a food processor fitted with a dough blade