Festive desserts
Don’t like Christmas pudding? Try these festive dessert alternatives, including recipes for a salted caramel Yule log and a clementine and almond trifle.
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Custard tart recipes
Rick Stein’s custard tart
You simply cannot beat a custard tart – especially with its hypnotic wobble! Rick Stein’s...

Dinner party dessert recipes
Frozen profiteroles with Neapolitan ice cream
These showstopping frozen profiteroles – filled with ice cream and topped with caramel – will...

Baileys recipes
Baileys chocolate tiramisu trifle
What do you get if you cross tiramisu with chocolate trifle? Make this gloriously decadent...

Dinner party dessert recipes
Easy gingerbread affogato
All you need are four ingredients and 10 minutes for this easiest-ever gingerbread affogato recipe....

Dinner party dessert recipes
Crème caramels with caramel oranges
These vegan crème caramels with caramelised orange slices make a spectacular (and easy) dinner party...

Make-ahead Christmas dessert recipes
Clementine, pomegranate and cranberry jelly
We’ve combined festive flavours of clementine, pomegranate and cranberry to create this fruity Christmas jelly....

Frozen dessert recipes
Baileys and hazelnut parfaits
These nutty and boozy parfaits would make a fabulous dinner party dessert served with a...

Chocolate cake recipes
Black forest gâteau
Layers of chocolate sponge, cream and boozy kirsch cherries provide the building blocks for this...

Exotic desserts
Grilled mango and coconut ‘pannacotta’
If you think it’s not possible to enjoy joyful, indulgent desserts on a vegan diet,...

Festive desserts
Mulled cider trifle
When two festive favourites combine, you get this beautiful trifle made with apples in mulled...

Festive desserts
White russian roulade
No one can resist the call of a light chocolate sponge filled with whipped cream...

Festive desserts
Negroni meringue pavlova wreath with pomegranate and pistachio
Why have one good thing when you can have two? We’ve combined our favourite cocktail...

Baileys recipes
Brandy snaps with Baileys espresso martini cream
Bring back the brandy snap, we say! We’re doing just that and more with this...

Festive desserts
Caramel clementines
Boozy caramel is drizzled over clementines for an easy but seriously good pud. Serve with...

Make-ahead Christmas dessert recipes
Saffron-poached pear, madeira and ginger trifle
”Pears are good for winter trifles. Like all the best ones, this requires a bit...

Festive desserts
Royal mincemeat pie
Debbie Major puts a twist on mince pies with this giant, meringue-topped showstopping dessert. Prepare...

Gluten-free Christmas recipes
No-churn ice cream with boozy raisins
This is a really easy ice cream recipe that doesn’t require any time-consuming churning. Just...

Make-ahead Christmas dessert recipes
Ice cream profiterole sandwiches with salted chocolate sauce
We’ve put an elegant dinner party twist on ice cream sandwiches with this profiterole version,...

Christmas canapés
Mini lemon meringue pies
We’ve turned this classic British pud into a sumptuously sweet canapé. You won’t be able...

Mini dessert recipes
Chocolate meringue kisses
You’re three ingredients and ten minutes away from chocolate ganache-meringue heaven…

Festive desserts
White chocolate, orange and ginger profiteroles
We’ve revitalised this 1970s classic with these white chocolate drizzled profiteroles filled with an orange...

Festive desserts
Chocolate Christmas cake
This glorious cake is a boozy showstopper – strictly for adults only. Slice through the...

Festive desserts
Mocha tiramisu torte
A decadent dessert layering a pillowy coffee and walnut sponge, boozy mascarpone cream and a...

Festive desserts
Coconut pavlova
This light-as-air coconut pavlova makes the perfect refreshing dessert for gatherings -especially when topped with...