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Foodbloggers have risen to the challenge with gusto - with this list of recipes there should be little chance of the Bakewell Tart disappearing into oblivion.

• First-time bakewellier A Self-Proclaimed Foodaholic goes the Jamie Oliver route.
• Sam does too but with individual Bakewell Tarts via a few tweaks to suit her discerning palate.
• Cook Almost Anything Once goes for the full English look; and by-heck it looks great!
• My almondless, strictly traditional Bakewell
• Daydream Delicious goes all lemony on us with a Delia variation - Lancaster Tart
• Rhubarb Bakewell Tart from A Veggie Venture
• Someone HAD to do one; stand-up Suburban Apron Company with a Chocolate Bakewell
• Adapted by Tartelette aux USA: Bakewell Tart from The Green Chronicle
• The Companion to The Old Foodie has a recipe from Eliza Acton's "Modern Cookery for Private Families" (1845).
• Another old recipe tried by Eating Leeds comes from Elegant Sufficiency: A Taste of Edwardian Times
• Baking For Britain delves into the history and origins of the Bakewell.
• The Tamasin Day-Lewis recipe is followed to full effect over at Küchenlatein
• Cosmic Menu of Happiness has a fun time too.
• A Nigella alternative over at Little Bouffe - a Cherry Bakewell. Not traditional but delicious looking.
• Pille at Nami-Nami went for a Bakewell Pudding recipe; and mighty deep and mouthwatering it looks too.
• Finally Xochitl Cooks made three versions for the Henley Bloggers Picnic - the traditional jam version, a honey version and a fig version. All good!

UPDATE: Jeanne at Cooksister has posted her Bakewell recipe details and also includes the hotly contested, if impromptu, grand Bakewell Taste-Off that we held at the Henley Picnic... whose came out best??

UPDATE 2: And they make it sound so easy; they being the Renaissance Monkey.

UPDATE 3: Keiko at Nordljus jumps in (delay due to waiting for home grown berries to ripen;so forgiven) with a wonderful sounding variation using almond cream (frangipane), custard cream and pistachio paste.


Xochitl's Fig Bakewell with my little traditional one in the front.