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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Cheesecake recipes
Caramelised white chocolate cheesecake
This showstopping cheesecake has a high-sided chocolatey biscuit base, a creamy filling spiked with nutty caramelised white chocolate and a...
Almond recipes
Almond cheesecake meringue nests
Scoops of pillowy amaretto-spiked mascarpone top golden sugar meringue nests to make these individual festive desserts. The meringues can be...
Patisserie recipes
Ravneet Gill’s mango and passion fruit choux buns
Ravneet Gill’s choux buns filled with a decadent mango, passionfruit and white chocolate ganache make a fabulous dessert to serve...
Chocolate tarts, tortes and pies
Ravneet Gill’s gianduja chocolate tart
Ravneet Gill’s rich chocolate and hazelnut tart is the perfect dessert to impress friends at a gathering. Ravneet says: “This...
Pavlova recipes
Caramelised walnut and coffee pavlova
Chetna Makan’s easy pavlova is topped with cream and beautifully caramelized walnuts, then drizzled with dark chocolate ganache – the...
Cheesecake recipes
Japanese soufflé cheesecake
Chef Jeremy Pang shares his recipe for a perfectly light and bouncy Japanese soufflé cheesecake. The sound and wobble of...
Chestnut recipes
Chestnut parfait with chocolate bourbon caramel
Creamy chestnut purée is perfect for making into all sorts of wonderful desserts, including this decadent parfait, which comes topped...
Brilliant blackberry recipes
Blackberry millefeuille
Millefeuille (which translates to ‘a thousand leaves’ thanks to all the layers of puff pastry) are all the rage right...
Honey recipes
Ravneet Gill’s honey and toasted rye parfait
Not all frozen creams need to be churned – as the quintessentially French parfait proves. Cookbook author and chef Ravneet...
Pear recipes
Rosé poached pears
Cooking with rosé should be a more common practice! The wine is the perfect match for in-season pears in this...
Patisserie recipes
Manon Lagrève’s mini canelés
If you’re going to make canelés, those chewy custardy treats found in French coffee shops, you may as well learn...
Autumn dessert recipes
Manon Lagrève’s almond, pear and tonka bean tart
If you’re looking for a dinner party dessert in the autumn months this winner from queen of French bakes, Manon...
Custard recipes
Blackcurrant and bay clafoutis
This light and fluffy clafoutis has a creamy custardy texture that’s perfect against the juicy, tart fruit. We’ve used blackcurrants...
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