What's inside the magicians hat? Abracadabra the rabbit! This cake is perfect for little magicians and magic themed birthday parties.

Redback spiders. Image: Rob Shaw/bauer syndication.com.au. Styling: Jane Collins. Preparation: Carla Do Carmo.

Get creative this spooky season with this decadent wacky web halloween cake! Tastes even better than it looks!

This vibrant rose pink vertical stripe cake is full of colour and delicious, sweet flavour - the perfect cake for your next party, family gathering, or celebration!

What has eight legs and tastes delicious? This recipe for spider cake pops! Create your own as a spooky Halloween treat

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This is a gorgeously comforting cake. It makes an ideal dessert option when served warm with fresh bananas. Photography by Todd Eyre

When I grow up - For the little dancers who want to be prima ballerinas dancing in the Royal Ballet.

Periodically, it's my birthday! This is a great cake for all those little scientists out there.

Green goodness and absolutely delicious! These vege-quarian pea and prawn patties can be made a day ahead, and served with our watercress salad and lemon mustard dressing.

Sparky the fire-breathing dragon, lives in the sky! Sparky the dragon is a really fun cake and sure to be a hit with all the boys and girls.

Sammy the shark lives under the sea with big sharp lolly teeth, blowing, marshmallow bubbles. Perfect cake for an underwater themed birthday party.

This Hansel and Gretel inspired, magic forest house cake is a fun one to get the kids involved. They can get creative and decorate the house with all the lollies.

This Winter wonderland birthday cake has a frozen jelly lake and covered in coconut snow!

Calling all little dog lovers! Frankfurt, the sausage dog is a delicious and easy chocolate covered sponge roll. Don't forget to add his bowl of M&M's dog food!

Who's a cute doggie, then? No one will be able to resist these cute doggie cupcakes, when they also taste delicious too!

Indulge in this sweet and decadent strawberry chequerboard loaf, topped with delicious buttercream icing and fresh fruit. The perfect dessert for your next party.

Full of sweet, creamy flavour, this decadent orange passionfruit toffee cake makes the perfect dessert, morning tea, or afternoon treat.

I wanna be a Popstar! Get everyone singing Happy Birthday with extra edible Popstar microphones for party guests to sing along with.

Emergency response fire squad birthday cake, for our firefighting heroes!

Surf's up little dude! This summer birthday cake is perfect for beach bums and surfer dudes.

Do you have a young doodler? This birthday cake is fun and colourful, perfect for any young aspiring doodling artist.

Piggy, the money maker! Piggy is a cute, fun birthday cake. Be sure to have lots of chocolate money left over to share around. Oink Cha-ching, oink oink!

A night in the forest! A cool camping themed birthday cake for a outdoorsy camper.

Crazy scientist experiment birthday cake for your little scientists! Fill the cone flasks with lollies so the children get a surprise when they lift the cone flasks!

The start of the BIG BANG! These firecracker cakes are filled with popping candy - watch the children's faces when the candy spills out cutting the cake!

Get the kids involved and let them go crazy and draw pictures on the icing cake, or draw their favourite character!

I'm watching you! These cake eyeballs in jelly are fantastic for kids birthdays and for Halloween parties. Scary and delicious - BOO!

A-B-C fun with letters! This birthday cake is perfect for preschool and early primary kids.

Play edible checkers with this game cake! Use pink lamingtons for a pink themed checkerboard cake, if you prefer.

Peacock pomp and pageantry. Fan that tail! Make as many lolly skewers as there are children at the party so they can each have their own part of the peacock tail.

Quiet as a mouse. This cute heart shaped mouse is a fun animal birthday cake.

This sweet and sticky recipe is a little tart with home-grown Granny Smith apples. Photography by Jani Shepherd.

There’s nothing greater than a slice of good gingery cake, cool vanilla ice cream and creamy caramel sauce. This sticky loaf style cake is perfect for taking on trips and it freezes well. Just warm each slice for a few seconds in the microwave before adding the ice cream and warm sauce.

Long gone is the dried handful of nuts & raisins we grew up with - this moist dense cake will without doubt sustain all your explorers. It contains goodness from walnuts, almonds and dates but isn’t without decadence – she sports a sweet creamy caramel coconut topping. Just the thing to enjoy with a thermos of hot tea on the riverbank or even with friends and a cuppa at home.

This is a nice alternative to a classic chocolate log.

Coffee and walnuts are old friends. In these cute little cakes, the sour cream adds an extra richness and ensures a wonderfully moist crumb. The recipe makes 8 small cakes or 10-12 muffins.

There is only one size for this baked cheesecake - big! It keeps well, but I guarantee it won't last long. It's best to make this cheesecake the day before you intend to serve it to allow it to settle.

The classic combination of strawberries and cream, and the goodness of gluten-free. A delicious dessert or sweet treat everyone can enjoy!

This old-fashioned moreish cake from Nantucket Island in the US can be served at breakfast time. Photography by Jani Shepherd.

We have created a lemon twist on a classic favourite - the Lamington. We've even made this recipe gluten-free, and nut-free, so everyone can enjoy!

Rich and decadant fruit cakes loaded full of sweet fruits and flavours - perfect for morning or afternoon tea!

Rise and shine with these delicious raspberry hotcakes with honeycomb butter! An easy reason to get out of bed in the morning!

This deliciously fresh and creamy summer trifle is the ultimate dessert for any occasion! Anna Polyviou from The Shangri-La Hotel shares her recipe from The Great Australian Cookbook.

Get creative in the kitchen with these sweet and sugary meringue ghosts, the ultimate 'treat' this Halloween!

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This is for the serious chocolate lover, a rich chocolate cake base layered with chocolate cream frosting. If you like, serve with coconut whipped cream and raspberry coulis. Raw desserts are one of the best ways to showcase the amazing flavours you can achieve with raw ingredients. It’s hard to imagine when eating this cake how it could possibly be raw; it just tastes insanely decadent and chocolatey. What is really brilliant about it, other than being full of chocolate, is that you now have a use for all that nut pulp you have left after making nut milk.

It can be just as much fun to decorate a cake with extravagant flowers as it is to eat the end result. The tang of raspberries and sumptuous cream cheese icing in this cake are a truly satisfying combination, and guests will be impressed with its looks, too. Photograph by Mike Rooke.

You can serve 18 guests a slice of this generously proportioned three-tier cake, which is bursting with citrus. The cake is then delicately garnished with lavender, lemon or lime curd and roughly chopped pistachios. Photograph by Mike Rooke. Props and styling by Mike Watson.

These cute little cakes are stuffed with tender vanilla poached pears to create a dainty treat, perfect enjoyed with a cup of tea.

Surprise your family this festive season with this incredible cake, filled with chocolatey Easter eggs that can be revealed when you 'smash' the top.

These pretty little cupcakes are delectable. They are light and dainty and the easy icing is tinted with beetroot juice – not artificial colouring – so your little ones won’t turn into chandelier-swinging monsters after eating them.

This spongy, almondy cake is another way of dealing to excess stone fruit. Make one, two or three layers, sand­wiched with aromatic cinnamon cream (if making a single layer, just cut it in half once cooled), and use whatever fruit you have lots of – small apples and pears work well, too. Photograph by Jani Shepherd and styling by Fiona Hugues – Gatherum Collectif.

As kids, if we were ever feeling shattered from sport, school or riding ponies, Mum would make a huge bowl of tiramisu, the classic Italian mamma’s pick-me-up. I adored it even though it was probably a little on the boozy side! My kids were born with my tiramisu adoration, but being half-French they also have a hereditary addiction to Nutella. In this recipe, I’ve combined the two. These little jars (individual servings lessen the squabbles for the last spoonful) of chocolatey, hazelnutty goodness are less eggy than Mum’s original recipe. I also add whisky, not the usual Marsala, for a smoky note or maybe just to stamp my Scottish heritage on it. Delizioso. Photograph by Jani Shepherd and styling by Fiona Hugues – Gatherum Collectif.

Get creative with this decadently divine white chocolate and raspberry roulade - the perfect dessert for any occasion!

These gorgeously zesty carrot, orange and ginger cakes have a lovely moist texture. This wholesome recipe calls for coconut sugar, which gives a nice caramel flavour. Topped with pure and plain mascarpone, these cakes make a wonderful afternoon treat with a cup of tea. Photograph, props and styling by Eleanor Ozich

The feijoa slices on top of these delicious little tangy lemon syrup cakes will caramelise as they cook.

Get into the 'spirit' of Halloween with these delicious choc cobweb cupcakes!

These spooky ghost cakes are sweet, buttery and simply divine! The perfect sweet treat for this Halloween!

Find the hidden treasure! These creative pirate treasure chest cakes taste as good as they look! The perfect sweet treats for this Halloween!

Easy to make and delicious to devour - these heavenly chocolate hazelnut fairy cakes make the ultimate weekend sweet treats!

Sweet, moist, indulgent vanilla buttercake. A crowd pleasing dessert, and the perfect treat for morning or afternoon tea.

Indulge in this deliciously eye-catching cake. The perfect dessert or sweet treat for someone special!

Sweet, cute and delicious. These mini rose pink ombre cakes are perfect for any special occasion, or to simply bake over the weekend!

Attention chocolate lovers - this mouthwatering chocolate curl cake is rich, sweet and oh-so-decadent. A little slice of heaven.

These delightful frozen peanut butter cheesecake pops are quick, easy and delicious! Enjoy for dessert or as a sweet afternoon treat!

Consider yourself a bit of a sweet tooth? Then you will love this orange almond Victoria sponge - sweet, decadent and simply divine!

This incredible layered chocolate cake is beautiful topped with a rich fudge sauce and sweet marshmallows. It's easy to make, but looks (and tastes) really impressive!

This super-sized cake fits the bill for those times when you just need a hit of sugar. It’s got all those wonderful caramel-sweet flavours in there to cure a sugar craving good and proper. Photograph by Jani Shepherd.

This cake channels the finer points of a Bounty bar – coconut dacquoise rounds are layered with coconut-chocolate truffle filling and given a boozy hit of coconut liqueur for good measure.

A classic dessert with an extra delicious topping. Photography by Rob Shaw/bauersyndication.com.au

Get creative in the kitchen with this decadent cardamom and orange flourless cake - finished with creamy cinnamon mascarpone cream, this cake makes the ultimate dessert or afternoon treat!

This flourless chocolate cake with pear, macadamia & crème chantilly is rich and moist. The bittersweet dark chocolate complements the soft sweet baked pears beautifully.

Escape to summer with this delightfully sweet summer lemon and berry pudding! Fruity, creamy, and simply divine!

Indulge in this heavenly white chocolate berry cheesecake - filled with everything your heart desires. This delightful cake is the perfect dessert for any occasion!

This is a gorgeously gooey and crunchy chocolate meringue, loaded with dried fruit, nuts and chopped chocolate. Regardless of how messy it is to serve up, it’s a dream of a dessert!

If you’re looking for something different and delightfully sweet, canelés are perfect.

I like to kid myself that this wonderful chocolate cake is so full of quinoa, I can eat as much as I like! For the refined sugar-free version, skip the frosting.

Fresh and fruity - this watermelon cake is the perfect summer dessert! Layered with fresh fruit and served with creamy ice-cream, this cake is a little slice of summer-heaven!

Satisfy your sweet tooth with this sweet and creamy passionfruit and mango cheesecake - sweet, creamy and fruity! This is the perfect dessert for any night of the week!

Drizzled with a creamy yoghurt topping and sticky orange syrup, this honey muscat syrup cake is simply irresistible! Enjoy a little slice of heaven with your morning cuppa.

Indulge in these decadent beer and pretzel cakes with coffee cream - sweet, rich and so delicious, these little treats taste even better than they look!

Sweet and nutty - these picture-perfect pistachio and pomegranate cakes (now there's a mouthful!), are simply divine! Enjoy for dessert or as a sweet afternoon tea treat!

Hands up all chocolate lovers - this one's for you! Sweet, rich, and oh-so-decadent double chocolate mousse cheesecake. A little slice of chocolate heaven!

Indulge in this decadent tradition Italian ricotta cheesecake for dessert tonight - rich, sweet and so delicious!

This decadent cake bursts with the flavours of rosemary and citrus! It’s gluten-free, making use of the humble potato and a little almond flour to produce a moist and delicious treat.

Love gluten but find it doesn't love you back? No problem! This decadent and flavoursome coconut jam cake is gluten free, and will no doubt be loved by the entire family!

These scrumptious lemony cheesecake tarts topped with summer fruits make for the perfect treat with your afternoon cuppa. Simply divine!