These delicious recipes all feature ingredients from trees, such as cinnamon, dates, pine nuts, pecans and chocolate. Tree Aid is a charity which helps people in Africa's drylands to become self-sufficient by growing and looking after trees. This Christmas, they are asking people to help raise money by baking and selling tree-inspired cakes.
Fig and ricotta cake by Antony Worrall Thompson
For the cake
vegetable oil
unsalted butter - 250g
caster sugar - 250g
8 eggs
zest of 2 oranges
zest of 3 lemons
roasted pine nuts - 125g
chopped dried dates - 200g