Dinner party dessert recipes
Impress, astound and delight with our dinner party dessert recipes. Think rich pannacottas, seriously indulgent tarts, thickly-layered cheesecakes and more.
With desserts this good, there’ll be a queue at your house…
Have you decided on the main course yet? Browse our easy dinner party recipes for ideas.
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Dinner party dessert recipes
Best-of-the-best summer swiss roll
With a light but springy sponge, rich mascarpone cream and fresh seasonal fruit, our best swiss roll recipe makes the perfect summer dessert.
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Strawberry recipes
Strawberry, black pepper and clotted cream tart
This strawberry tart is one seriously impressive summer dessert. Strawberries macerated with black pepper top a rich clotted cream filling.
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Mango dessert recipes
Mango and elderflower mess
Based on the modern classic eton mess, this colourful dessert swaps out the more common strawberries for juicy ripe mango, marinated in floral elderflower cordial.
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Mango dessert recipes
Easy mango mousse
With just five ingredients and 15 minutes prep time, this mango mousse is a great recipe to have in your dessert repertoire.
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Sweet tart recipes
Simon Rimmer’s treacle tart with lemon mascarpone cream
A simple but elegant treacle tart from Simon Rimmer. The filling has a hint of warming ginger and there’s a punchy lemon cream on the side.
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Impressive recipes for a special occasion
Chef-style chocolate, coffee and orange dessert
This impressive but achievable iced dessert is directly inspired by chef James Knappett's cult pud 'Chocolate, orange and coffee.'
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Baking recipes
Jamaican ginger cake with chocolate ganache and berry coulis
Rich, sticky Jamican ginger cake is the ultimate comfort bake. Team it with simple berry coulis and chocolate ganache for a dinner party pud.
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Cheesecake recipes
Caramelised white chocolate cheesecake
This showstopping cheesecake has a chocolatey biscuit base, a creamy caramelised white chocolate filling and golden ganache topping.
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Pannacotta recipes
Burnt honey pannacotta with rhubarb and chamomile syrup
Ravinder Bhogal's burnt honey pannacotta with rhubarb is the perfect make-ahead dessert for spring, including your Easter lunch.
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Pistachio recipes
Lebanese syllabub with ghraybeh (pistachio biscuits)
Food writer Angela Zaher gives the traditional dessert syllabub a Lebanese twist with arak and orange blossom. Serve with pistachio biscuits.
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Almond recipes
Almond cheesecake meringue nests
Scoops of pillowy amaretto-spiked mascarpone top golden sugar meringue nests to make these individual festive desserts.Â
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Patisserie recipes
Ravneet Gill’s mango and passion fruit choux buns
Ravneet Gill's choux buns filled with a mango, passionfruit and white chocolate ganache make a fabulous dessert to serve friends.Â
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Chocolate tarts, tortes and pies
Ravneet Gill’s gianduja chocolate tart
Ravneet Gill's rich gianduja chocolate tart has a velvety-smooth filling and wonderfully crisp pastry. Serve with chilled pouring cream.
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Pavlova recipes
Caramelised walnut and coffee pavlova
Chetna Makan's coffee pavlova is topped with cream and beautifully caramelized walnuts, then drizzled with chocolate ganache.
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Cheesecake recipes
Japanese soufflé cheesecake
Chef Jeremy Pang shares his recipe for a perfectly fluffy Japanese souffle cheesecake. Try this technical bake and impress your friends.
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