Make-ahead Christmas dessert recipes
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Quick and easy dessert recipes
Sweet filo triangles with cardamom, clementine and pistachios
Fragrant cardamom, sticky citrus, crunchy nuts and crisp pastry – this beautiful, festive dessert can be put together in the time it takes to bake the filo.
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Trifle recipes
Orange and ginger cake trifle
Orange trifle makes a glorious Christmas dessert. Orange jelly is topped with ginger cake, white choc pannacotta and Eton Mess cream.
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Trifle recipes
Traditional English trifle
Raspberry jelly, thick vanilla custard, sherry-soaked sponge fingers and pillowy mounds of whipped cream: it's the ultimate traditional trifle.
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Christmas baking recipes
Mince pie treacle tart
Lola Milne’s sublime yet simple pudding is an amalgamation of treacle tart and mince pie: sticky, spicy, fruity and unashamedly festive.
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Make-ahead Christmas dessert recipes
Mince pie ice cream sandwiches
Looking for an easy but impressive Christmas dessert? Mince pie ice cream sandwiches, served in golden brioche, tick all the right boxes.
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Cheesecake recipes
Orange, barberry and sumac cheesecake
Sweet-sour barberries and the tart, lemony flavour of sumac provide an up-to-date twist on the festive flavours of dried fruit and citrus in this cheesecake.
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Christmas pudding recipes
Christmas pudding made with beer
Packed with plump, moist fruit, this is a fragrant, complex winner, only made better by the addition of dark beer, prunes, figs and dates.
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Cheesecake recipes
Champagne jelly cheesecake
This chic Champagne jelly cheesecake was made for special occasions. A creamy filling is topped with sparkling jelly and edible silver leaf.
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Dinner party dessert recipes
Chocolate orange pithivier
Chocolate orange lovers won't be able to resist this decadent dessert. Our chocolate pithivier has a rich filling encased in golden pastry.
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Make-ahead Christmas dessert recipes
Chocolate coconut meringue wreath
This is one epic dessert. A chocolate coconut meringue wreath topped with fruit curd, chocolate cream, toasted coconut and melted chocolate.
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Christmas chocolate recipes
Terry’s Chocolate Orange cream pie
Looking for an easy make-ahead Christmas dessert? Try our luscious chocolate orange cream pie, with choc custard filling and an Oreo base.
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Trifle recipes
Chocolate and caramel popcorn trifle
Trifle can be an epic undertaking but this crunchy chocolate and caramel trifle, despite being made from scratch, only takes 30 mins to make.
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Trifle recipes
Sherry trifle with praline and orange custard
Our stunning sherry trifle is topped with orange custard, a billowing layer of cream and praline shards. The perfect festive dessert.
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Cheesecake recipes
Lindor white chocolate and passion fruit cheesecake
For a truly decadent festive dessert, top delicious white chocolate cheesecake with passion fruit, toasted coconut and white choc Lindor.
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Christmas chocolate recipes
After Eights chocolate tart
Obsessed with After Eights? Our next level chocolate tart has crisp pastry filled with layers of velvety mint white and dark choc ganache.
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Festive desserts
Baileys yule log
Give yule log a boozy twist with a splash of Baileys. Chocolate roulade is filled with luscious Baileys frosting in this make-ahead recipe.
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