Custard recipes
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Best of British recipes
Proper homemade custard
This easy recipe for homemade vanilla custard is the perfect finishing touch: pour it over apple pie, steamed pudding, or...
Custard tart recipes
Rick Stein’s custard tart
You simply cannot beat a custard tart – especially with its hypnotic wobble! Rick Stein’s custard tart recipe does contain...
Chocolate mousse recipes
Double-layer custard and chocolate mousse Â
”Mousse and custard go together beautifully – the creamy vanilla custard makes an ideal base for the dark chocolate mousse....
Savoury tarts
Cheddar and nutmeg custard tart
Felicity Cloake puts a twist on a custard tart with her savoury version, made with cheddar and nutmeg. It’s gorgeously...
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...
Sweet tart recipes
Portuguese custard tarts (pastéis de nata)
Our foolproof Portuguese custard tart recipe will give you a crisp, flaky shell and wobbly custard filling every time. We...
Custard recipes
Sweet bougatsa with homemade ‘Milko’
This recipe is from Christina Mouroglou’s cookbook, Mazi: Modern Greek Food. A northern Greece speciality, bougatsa can be either savoury,...
Make-ahead dessert recipes
Chocolate and caramel sponge pudding with chocolate custard
This pudding has everything: chocolate, custard, caramel… and it’s quick to put together. Dig into the middle with a big...
Brilliant blackberry recipes
Blackberry and thyme steamed puddings with bay custard
”British puddings cannot be beaten. I have added flavours that I love to use in savoury dishes – lemon thyme...
Celebration cake recipes
The world’s best cake (Norwegian meringue and custard layer cake)
That’s the official name for this Norwegian beauty and we’re not disagreeing. Maria Villmones Bondeson‘s recipe layers crisp meringue, sponge...
Make-ahead dessert recipes
Baked lemon curd syrup sponges with brandy custard
We’ve given these dainty sponges a little grown-up treatment with a slug of brandy, a citrussy syrup and a boozy...
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...
Afternoon tea recipes
Custard doughnuts
Doughnuts from the Bread Ahead bakery are very popular in the delicious. office. Recreate their famous vanilla custard doughnuts –...
Filo pastry recipes
Lisa Faulkner’s Greek custard tart
In Greece this gorgeous tart is more commonly known as galaktoboureko – layers of filo pastry enclosing a thick custard,...
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