Taste test: sweet biscuits
Nuts about ginger, digestives or shortbread? Lily Vanilli blind-tests Britain’s best cookies
OFM Awards 2015 best readers’ recipe: Selma Jeevanjee
A delicious masala chai banana bread with coconut, cream cheese and cardamom icing
David Tanis’s Mediterranean winter feast
Moroccan-spiced lamb, pan-roasted parsnips, almond honey cake – these brilliant Mediterranean recipes add spice to the Christmas season. By David Tanis
How to make perfect edible Christmas gifts
Claire Ptak: Cookies, nougat, truffles and more: bake and wrap for brilliant, personalised presents
OFM awards 2014 best reader’s recipe: Gavan Knox’s smokin’ pig licker brownies
‘A rasher of bacon coated in chocolate’ — a deliciously piggy, American-inspired twist on an old favourite from Gavan Knox in London
The Great British Bake Off: ‘Now we’re on BBC1, Mary Berry demands a golden throne’
Jay Rayner meets the show’s stars – Paul Hollywood, Mary Berry, Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc – for a no-holds-barred discussion about fame, baking and randy squirrels
Paul and Mary’s favourite Bake Off recipes
Chocolate roulade, pork pie with quail's eggs, tarte au citron: Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood choose their all-time favourite recipes from The Great British Bake Off
Justin Gellatly: I want to know that every loaf is perfect
The star baker on his new book – and his brilliant doughnuts. Interview by Rachel Cooke
How to make your own sourdough starter
Justin Piers Gellatly, who made his name as the in-house baker at St John, on the essentials for soughdough – takes a week, lasts for ages. Interview by Tim Lewis
St John Bakery doughnut recipe
Justin Gellatly: the genius behind the St John Bakery and his recipe for the legendary doughnut
Dwight Henry: from New Orleans baker to Hollywood’s rising star
Dwight Henry was working nights in his bakery when Hollywood came calling. Now his film, Beasts of the Southern Wild, is up for four Oscars. But he's still manning the ovens
Bake Off’s Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry: ‘We argue over every cake’
Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood are the year's unlikeliest TV stars after the success of The Great British Bake Off. But even they're not sure why it's been such a huge hit. Interview by Elizabeth Day
Lorraine Pascale: ‘I spent all my pocket money on chocolate brownies’
The queen of TV bakery tells John Hind about her formative food experiences
Rachel Khoo: ‘My parents thought I was mad to go off baking cakes in Paris’
The star of The Little Paris Kitchen is refreshingly unfussy on screen – but it's taken determination and willpower to get there, writes Elizabeth Day
Sweet and savoury tart recipes
Lemon tarts, bacon and leek tart, rhubarb and whitecurrant tart recipes by master baker Richard Bertinet