Desserts

What’s not to love about banana bread? Quick to make and always tasty, it goes easily from breakfast table, to lunch box, to after dinner treat with tea. And many of us have a family recipe we’ve been making for so long we could do it with our eyes closed. So why not give your go-to recipe a break and give our chocolate-walnut banana bread a try? With all the familiar flavour you expect from this potassium-rich treat, our version ups the healthy factor with the addition of flax seeds and whole-wheat flour. Plus, we’ve added enough chocolate chips to make sure it appeals to those with a sweet tooth, and the protein-packed walnuts balance the sweetness.

Instructions A lesson on butter Soft butter: when butter and sugar are creamed together, air is incorporated evenly in the base of...

It starts its life, simply, as a flat sponge cake in a baking sheet. Rolled up and covered in silky buttercream, it looks rather like a barrel. Cut into it, however — revealing the stripes! — and it looks like a whole lot of vertically inclined (and very colourful) fun. - Yotam Ottolenghi & Helen Goh, Sweet.

Use chocolate chunks instead of chips in this update to a classic recipe.

Canadian Lauren Toyota's behind the popular YouTube channel Hot for Food. But now the former MuchMusic VJ is sharing her recipes offline with her new cookbook Vegan Comfort Classics. With plant-based versions of your favourite dishes — including Philly cheese steaks, bacon mac and cheese and this cheesecake — it'll make you completely rethink vegan food.