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 desserts
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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Strawberries
Clotted cream cheesecake with roast strawberries
This rich and silky clotted cream cheesecake is the perfect make-ahead dessert, especially when served with roast strawberries.
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Giant recipes
Giant banoffee eton mess
This symphony of sweet treats combines banoffee pie flavours with Eton mess for a spectacular sharing dessert to feed a crowd.
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Rice puddings
Rice pudding brûlée with caramel bananas
If you love rice pudding, you'll love this indulgent rice pudding brûlée with caramel bananas from dinner party expert Rosie Mackean.
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Dinner party desserts
Chocolate pannacottas with pine nut and puffed rice praline
These chocolate pannacottas are silky and rich, and a showstopper dessert for a dinner party. Top with a pine nut and puffed rice praline.
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Rhubarb
Honeyed mascarpone tart with ovenpoached rhubarb
This honey tart is sweet and creamy, with a mascarpone filling. It works perfectly with the subtle sharpness of oven-poached rhubarb.
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Make-ahead desserts
Passion fruit and coconut crème brûlée
Looking for an easy make-ahead dessert recipe for a special occasion? Try Ravinder Bhogal's passion fruit and coconut crème brûlée to share.
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Blueberries
Kim-Joy’s blueberry escapee cheesecake
Kim Joy adds some of her baking magic to a rustic blueberry cheesecake. Top the creamy cheesecake with blueberry sauce and cute creatures.
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Christmas cupcakes and small bakes
Gingercake bites
Sticky gingercake gets better with age, so it’s perfect for giving as a Christmas gift. We’ve coated each cube of cake with a lemony icing.
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Rhubarb
Rhubarb and pink grapefruit possets with poppy seed and pistachio shortbread
These possets make the most of winter’s citrus and the pleasant tang of rhubarb. An impressive make-ahead dessert for Christmas entertaining.
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Perfect puddings
Malt chocolate self-saucing pudding
The toasty flavour of malt brings an extra layer of comfort to this easy, self-saucing chocolate pudding. Bring it to the table and dig in!
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Italian desserts
Chocolate budino
With only five ingredients, this creamy Italian pudding – chocolate budino – is incredibly simple but beautifully smooth and indulgent.
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Italian desserts
Theo Randall’s torta barozzi (flourless chocolate, almond and rum cake)
Torta barozzi is a rich and fudgy flourless chocolate cake from Northern Italy. Perfect when you need an easy make-ahead dessert.
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Autumn desserts
Zabaione with hazelnuts and figs
Through the alchemy of heat and whisking, eggs, sugar and sweet wine are transformed into the silky cloud of loveliness known as zabaione.
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Make-ahead summer desserts
Paul Ainsworth’s strawberry trifle
Top chef Paul Ainsworth shares a recipe from his debut cookbook, upgrading his dad's classic trifle with fresh peak-season strawberries.
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