About Granny Bakes

Granny Bakes is a small collection of the recipes that used to live on index cards in a biscuit tin. No air fryers, no protein powder, no 47-step viral bakes. Just the things that get made when the grandchildren are coming round.

Every recipe uses plain ingredients in metric weights, with oven temperatures given for conventional, fan and gas ovens. If a recipe is here, it has been made more than once and eaten every time.

Got a recipe of your own granny's?

We would love to add it. Send it to hello@grannybakes.com with a line about who made it and when.

Photo credits

Recipe photographs are by generous home cooks who shared them under Creative Commons licences. Thank you to:

• Classic Victoria Sponge: gordonplant, CC BY 2.0
• Proper Buttermilk Scones: rawpixel, CC0 1.0
• Bread and Butter Pudding: avlxyz, CC BY-SA 2.0
• Scottish Shortbread: David Jackmanson, CC BY 2.0
• Bramley Apple Crumble: Burger Baroness, CC BY-SA 2.0
• Lemon Drizzle Loaf: Nick J Webb, CC BY 2.0
• Treacle Tart: jbracken, CC BY 2.0
• Rock Cakes: Eljay, CC BY 2.0
• Golden Syrup Flapjacks: Speculum Mundi, CC BY 2.0
• Jam Tarts: dichohecho, CC BY 2.0
• Welsh Cakes: zingyyellow...!, CC BY 2.0
• Sticky Gingerbread Loaf: amandabhslater, CC BY-SA 2.0
• Bakewell Tart: avlxyz, CC BY-SA 2.0
• Coffee and Walnut Cake: dichohecho, CC BY 2.0
• Home page photo: jfiess, CC BY 2.0
• Baked Rice Pudding: moonlightbulb, CC BY 2.0
• Fairy Cakes: Gavin Tapp, CC BY 2.0