Valentine's cakes and treat recipes
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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!
Nut-free cakes and bakes
Nut-free carrot cupcakes
These nut-free carrot cupcakes are slathered in cream cheese icing. Serve as part of a nut-free afternoon tea or kids' party spread.
Classic cake recipes
Strawberry and rose victoria sponge sandwich
A twist on a classic, this special strawberry victoria sponge recipe uses decadent rose extract and petals to create a truly beautiful cake.
Mini dessert recipes
Chocolate meringue kisses
You're three ingredients and ten minutes away from chocolate ganache-meringue heaven...with our easy and festive chocolate meringues
Celebration cake recipes
Sticky toffee pudding cake
Martha Collinson's sticky toffee pudding cake has all the flavours of the classic pud. Drizzle toffee sauce over the buttercream to finish.
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.
Afternoon tea recipes
Gill Meller’s brown butter and poppy seed shortbread biscuits
Gill Meller's moreish brown butter shortbread biscuits topped with poppy seeds are perfect as a snack or with afternoon tea.
Italian dessert recipes
Frangelico chocolate hazelnut tart
Call yourself a chocolate-lover? Not until you've tried this. A cookie base is topped with chocolate ganache, hazelnut liqueur and praline. Heaven.
Dark chocolate recipes
Salted chocolate honeycomb
Serve vanilla ice cream with shards of salted, chocolate-dipped honeycomb for an excellent make-ahead dinner party dessert.
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.
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.
Proper pudding recipes
Queen of puddings
The perfect, and easy, queen of puddings recipe - featuring royal amounts of billowy meringue and yummy breadcrumb sponge.
Meringue recipes
Double baked chocolate meringue brownie
The two contrasting layers in Eric Lanlard's chocolate meringue recipe – one gooey and rich, the other crunchy and marshmallowy = one incredible dessert.
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