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A store cupboard staple – use up a tin of pineapple and swap butter for olive oil to make this lovely pineapple upside down cake

Strawberry deliciouness in a dessert cake which is enriched with yogurt and heart-healthy olive oil.

Moist and delicious blueberry and mascarpone loaf cake, enriched with honey and Cointreau

Summer season nectarine baked cheesecake with a biscuit and pink peppercorn base

Heavenly orange and olive oil cake with marmalade glaze and Limoncello icing

In another lead-up week to the start of the Great British Bake Off, The Baking Nanna and Rob Allen hosted another #GBBOTwitterbakealong and asked for a vote.

Rich and silky baked mango cheesecake with a layer and topping of mango compote and a biscuit base

Geometric spiral cake with marbled sponge, including full recipe, instructions and pdf template

Gluten free Italian orange polenta cake with a citrus, honey and anise syrup

Unctuous and tangy baked cheesecake flavoured with Limoncello and with large dollops of lemon curd and a biscuit base

This was developed for a dinner with some friends, after doing some gardening and tending the herbs on my patio including my large tub of spearmint.

This is an amazingly bouncy walnut sponge topped with a lemon buttercream – this is a change to the traditional coffee and walnut combination but goes beautifully together.

This cake was borne out of another Daring Bakers challenge for a ‘surprise inside’ cake.

Esterházy cake is a dacquoise layer torte originating in Budapest in the late 1800s.