Make-ahead dessert recipes
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Make-ahead dessert recipes
Toffee ice-cream cake
Can't choose between ice cream or cake? Our easy toffee ice cream cake, with some clever shop-bought shortcuts, means you can enjoy both.
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Make-ahead dessert recipes
Easy flourless chocolate cake
A crisp outside and fudgy centre make this flourless chocolate cake the best of gluten-free desserts. Make-ahead, then serve with ice cream.
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Roulade recipes
Banoffee roulade with mocha cream
Debbie Major turns the same knockout flavour combo of a banoffee pie into a showstopping banoffee roulade… It’s set to be a new dessert favourite.
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Cheesecake recipes
Lingonberry and orange cheesecake with a gingersnap crust
With its heart-shaped topping, this Swedish orange-scented cheesecake by Steffi Knowles-Dellner is a real treat for a special occasion or a romantic dessert.
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Make-ahead dessert recipes
Chocolate and caramel sponge pudding with chocolate custard
This pudding has everything: chocolate, custard and it's quick to put together. Dig into the middle with a big spoon for melty, caramelly surprises
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Dinner party dessert recipes
Molten-middle Lindor fondants
Break open these hot chocolate fondants to reveal a luscious puddle of melted white Lindor truffle – a heavenly Valentine's Day pud.
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Perfect pudding recipes
Poached pear queen of puddings
Custard, meringue, compote and perfectly poached pears make for a show-stopping pudding and the perfect way to end a Sunday lunch.
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Classic cake recipes
Sticky ginger and almond cake
Gill Meller's sweet, spiced ginger cake is made with honey, molasses and almonds and tastes better as it sits in the tin. Make a day ahead.
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Make-ahead dessert recipes
Baked lemon curd syrup sponges with brandy custard
We've given these lemon curd syrup sponges the grown-up treatment with a slug of brandy and boozy custard. An impressive dinner party dessert.
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Make-ahead dessert recipes
Giant Portuguese custard tart (pastéis de nata)
In Portugal pastéis de nata are often eaten for breakfast. This giant version is bigger, better and can be enjoyed any time of the day.
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Make-ahead summer dessert recipes
Lemon mousse with candied lemon
Serve this citrusy, creamy light-as-air lemon mousse in stemmed glasses for an easy, yet impressive dinner party dessert.
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Chocolate mousse recipes
Crunchie honeycomb chocolate mousse
Smooth, velvety chocolate mousse with chunks of crunchy honeycomb both stirred through and placed on top – that is decadence in a bowl.
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Make-ahead Christmas dessert recipes
Eric Lanlard’s triple chocolate verrines
Eric Lanlard's recipe proves good things come in threes. Layers of milk, dark and white chocolate mousse make up this dinner party dessert.
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Chocolate mousse recipes
James Martin’s chocolate mousse
James Martin's version of the classic chocolate mousse, made with just three ingredients, is easy to make and even easier to eat.
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