Cakes, Muffins and Scones for Afternoon Tea

This collection of Cakes, Muffins and Scones for Afternoon Tea is perfect for anyone who likes something homemade with a cup of tea.

There are loaf cakes, muffins, cookies, brownies and three bakes made in the air fryer. Number 10 needs a night in the fridge before you can cut it. Save this list for the next time you want to bake.

Plum Cake Recipe

This plum cake is a soft, buttery sponge baked with fresh plums. The sugar on top bakes into a thin, crunchy crust.

Get the recipe: Plum Cake Recipe

Walnut Cookies

These walnut cookies use four ingredients and take about 25 minutes. There are no eggs in the dough, so they're short and crumbly, and you mix it by hand.

See the method: Walnut Cookies

Air Fryer Raspberry and White Chocolate Muffins

These muffins are baked in the air fryer, so there's no oven to heat up. They take less than 20 minutes and go well with a cup of tea. If you prefer blackberries, number 8 is a muffin with an oat crumble on top.

Full recipe here: Air Fryer Raspberry and White Chocolate Muffins

Easy Carrot Cake Recipe

This carrot cake is spiced and topped with cream cheese frosting. Bake it for a birthday or Easter, or just to have a slice with tea.

Read the recipe: Easy Carrot Cake Recipe

Fudgy Dark Chocolate Brownies

walnut chocolate brownie slices — Ayla Clulee

These brownies are made with cocoa powder and pieces of dark chocolate. They have a soft centre and a crisp top.

How to make it: Fudgy Dark Chocolate Brownies

Lemon Blueberry Coffee Cake

blueberry crumble cake recipe — Ayla Clulee

This coffee cake has blueberries in it and a lemony crumble on top. Lemon juice and zest go into the cake as well. For another crumble topping, number 17 adds cinnamon apples.

Find the recipe here: Lemon Blueberry Coffee Cake

Nutella Babka Bread

This babka is a soft brioche loaf filled with Nutella instead of a cooked chocolate filling. The dough rises twice, and the rest of the work is quick.

Make it yourself: Nutella Babka Bread

Blackberry Streusel Muffins

Freshly baked muffins with a crunchy oat topping stacked in red liners. — Ayla Clulee

These muffins have blackberries, white chocolate and a crunchy oat topping. Fresh or frozen blackberries both work, and they take about 40 minutes. The orange and cranberry muffins at number 16 are the festive version.

To learn more: Blackberry Streusel Muffins

Air Fryer English Scones Recipe

These English scones are made in the air fryer and come out soft and fluffy inside. Serve them warm with clotted cream and jam, or just with butter.

Get the recipe: Air Fryer English Scones Recipe

Medovik - Russian Honey Cake

Medovik is a Russian honey cake made with thin biscuit layers and a sour cream frosting. It isn't too sweet, and the dough comes together in one saucepan. It needs a night in the fridge before you cut it.

See the method: Medovik - Russian Honey Cake

Fig Cake

This fig cake is soft and lightly sweet, and it's ready in under an hour. Serve it plain or with Greek yoghurt, fresh figs, pistachios and a little honey. Number 17 is a crumb cake made with apples.

Full recipe here: Fig Cake

Key Lime Cookies with Glaze

These key lime cookies are chewy and a little tangy, with a sweet glaze on top. They use a handful of basic ingredients.

Read the recipe: Key Lime Cookies with Glaze

Chocolate Chip Banana Nut Bread

moist banana bread with chocolate slices — Ayla Clulee

This banana bread has ripe bananas, chocolate chips and walnuts in it. The bananas make it sweet and keep the loaf soft.

How to make it: Chocolate Chip Banana Nut Bread

Cranberry Cheesecake Brownies

These brownies combine the fudgy dark chocolate brownies on this list with a creamy cranberry cheesecake mix. Make them for a special occasion when you have guests. There's one more chocolate bake at number 18.

Find the recipe here: Cranberry Cheesecake Brownies

Air Fryer Lemon Cake with Raspberries

This lemon cake has raspberries and chocolate in it, and it's baked in an 18 cm (7 inch) cake tin in the air fryer. It serves up to 10 people.

Make it yourself: Air Fryer Lemon Cake with Raspberries

Orange Cranberry Muffins

lightly spiced cranberry orange muffins — Ayla Clulee

These muffins are made with buttermilk, orange and cranberries, so they're sweet and a bit sharp. Fresh cranberries work best when they're in season. Stay for number 17, a crumb cake you can bake on a weeknight.

To learn more: Orange Cranberry Muffins

Apple Crumb Cake

This crumb cake has a soft cake at the bottom, cinnamon apples in the middle and a thick crumb on top. You don't need a mixer, so it's easy enough to bake on a weeknight.

Get the recipe: Apple Crumb Cake