Browse our best make-ahead dessert recipes – all can be made in advance, with the finishing touches added on the day. Perfect to take some stress out of throwing a dinner party.
Choose from crowdpleasing classics such as eton mess and Michel Roux Jr’s chocolate mousse or lemon tart, or new favourites including Japanese soufflé cheesecake and a mango twist on tiramisu.
In the mood for chocolate? We love these molten middle chocolate fondants and our chocolate tart inspired by After Eights. If fruit’s your thing, we have plenty of make-ahead dessert recipes in that vein, too. For summer, opt for a strawberry daiquiri tart; for winter, try our pear and butterscotch cheesecake. And if you’re a pavlova fan, you’ll be spoilt for choice with our topping ideas, from caramelised walnut and coffee to peach bellini and pink praline.
Need starter ideas for your soirée? Check out our recipes, including smoky garlic prawn co*cktail and a halloumi and clementine salad.
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Cheesecake recipesCaramelised white chocolate cheesecake
This showstopping cheesecake has a high-sided chocolatey biscuit base, a creamy filling spiked with nutty caramelised white chocolate and a...
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Pannacotta recipesBurnt honey pannacotta with rhubarb and chamomile syrup
Ravinder Bhogal’s burnt honey pannacotta with rhubarb is the perfect make-ahead dessert for spring. Ravinder says: “Who knew chamomile teabags...
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Sweet tart recipesBlack forest bakewell tart
When black forest gateau meets bakewell tart, something magical happens. These two nostalgic desserts combine perfectly – especially when served...
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Pistachio recipesLebanese syllabub with ghraybeh (pistachio biscuits)
Food writer Angela Zaher gives the traditional dessert syllabub a Lebanese twist with arak and orange blossom water, served with...
Desserts like chocolate soufflé are known to be challenging. Your chances of baking the ideal chocolate soufflé will increase if you carefully whisk and fold the meringue and wait patiently until the buzzer sounds before opening the oven. Meringues are sensitive to humidity, temperature, and movement.
There are many cakes that are better the next day and gingerbreads can be particularly good as they are made with golden syrup, which helps to keep cakes moist. So you may want to try the Chocolate Gingerbread or the Luscious Vegan Gingerbread.
Cookies, brownies, fruit dessert recipes, and sheet cakes work well at picnics as they are easy to transport, full of summer flavor, and do not need a fridge. What are some desserts that travel well in heat? Cakes, muffins, and cupcakes without frosting all travel well in heat and do not require a fridge.
- Baked goods that do not require refrigeration, such as cakes, cookies, breads, and pastries. (No custards or cream fillings, etc.) What is a non-potentially hazardous baked item? Non-potentially hazardous foods are foods with a low water activity and low pH level that inhibit the growth of dangerous microorganisms.
The simplest dessert and one of the best are fruits because they are nutritious, appetizing, and easy to prepare and serve. Baked and soft custards vary in so many ways. Creamy, delicate, baked custards may be served in their baking cups or may be unmolded and served with fruit garnishes or with dessert sauces.
#10: Beef Wellington. Puff pastry presents enough of a challenge on its own, but wrapping it around beef tenderloin, duxelles and pâté is even more difficult. ...
Croquembouche. This French dessert is made up of a tower of cream-filled profiteroles held together with caramel. It requires precision and skill to create the tower without it collapsing, and the caramel can be tricky to work with.
1. Pie. Pie earns a spot on the top of everyone's list of popular desserts merely for its delicious versatility. From fruit pies to cream pies, from seasonal favorites like pumpkin to year-round standards like apple, what's not to love?
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