Make-ahead dessert recipes
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Ice cream recipes
Rhubarb jelly and Bird’s custard ice cream
Georgina Hayden has combined two classic flavours in one clever dessert featuring rhubarb jelly and Bird\s custard ice cream.
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Pistachio recipes
Pistachio, orange and cardamom tart with goat’s milk yogurt
Ben Tish's fragrant orange and pistachio tart is served with tangy goat's milk yoghurt to cut through the sweet, nutty filling.
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Make-ahead dessert recipes
Crème brûlée bakewell tart
Try this hybrid dessert recipe combining the best of a decadent French crème brûlée and a traditional British bakewell tart.
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Make-ahead dessert recipes
Pistachio and rose ice cream cake
A magnificent ice cream cake that you can make ahead. Just remove this gorgeous pistachio cake from the freezer 10 mins before serving.
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Burns Night recipes
Cranachan
Cranachan is a Scottish dessert traditionally made by folding fresh raspberries into whipped cream with a little honey, whisky and toasted oatmeal. Give it a try!
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Mini dessert recipes
Mini cosmopolitan cheesecakes
Everyone knows, and loves, a classic Cosmopolitan cocktail made with cranberry juice, vodka and orange liqueur but have you ever tried it in a cheesecake?
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Make-ahead dessert recipes
Dark and stormy crème brûlée
Rum, ginger and lime have been borrowed from a classic dark and stormy cocktail and reinvented into this decadent crème brûlée recipe.
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Sweet tart recipes
Gin and lime custard tart
We've taken the flavours of a gimlet cocktail – gin and lime – and magicked them into a creamy custard tart. It makes a great dinner party dessert.
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Frozen dessert recipes
Caipirinha sorbet
Bring on the wow factor and add a touch of glamour to your dinner party with this caipirinha cocktail sorbet recipe, made with limes, cachaca and mint.
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Rice pudding recipes
Rice pudding with honey soaked fruit and pistachios
This rice pudding recipe is made with coffee making this a grown-up treat. The sweetness of the honey-soaked fruit cuts through the richness.
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Make-ahead dessert recipes
Key lime pie
This American classic, key lime pie, is the perfect combination of zesty and refreshing yet fabulously creamy. It's super easy to make too!
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Make-ahead dessert recipes
Saffron and orange blossom crème caramels with cardamom and orange rhubarb
Ravinder Bhogal's saffron and orange blossom creme caramels with cardamom and orange rhubarb are a great dinner party dessert
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Make-ahead summer dessert recipes
Blackcurrant ripple ice cream sandwiches
This blackcurrant ice cream recipe is a great make-ahead dinner party dessert. Just mix the ingredients together and set in the freezer.
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Frozen dessert recipes
Mint chocolate ice cream parfait bombes
Create a showstopper dessert for your next dinner party with these ice cream bombes; crack open the chocolate shell to reveal mint chocolate ice cream.
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British puddings
Make-ahead treacle tart
This British classic pudding is made all the more brilliant because it can be made in advance. Give our make-ahead treacle tart recipe a go!
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Make-ahead dessert recipes
Chilled lemon soufflé
This make-ahead chilled lemon soufflé recipe is easier than it looks but you don't have to tell your dinner party guests that.
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