Sometimes you just need a show-stopping dessert to impress your family or guests but you don’t want to have to heat up the oven to bake a cake. Enter the Crock-Pot Express Multi-Cooker.

The dump cake is the lazy baker’s best friend. Whether you bake the fluffy cobbler-like dessert in the oven or use your Crock ...

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You can freeze an un-iced carrot cake for up to 3 months, well-wrapped in clingfilm. Carrot cake is very forgiving. As an oil-based cake it's very easy to throw together without much advance warning.

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Roll out a third of the almond paste to make a circle 18cm/7in in diameter and reserve the remainder for the cake topping. Preheat oven to 140C/120C Fan/Gas 1. Grease and line a 18cm/7in cake tin.