Showstopper Christmas dessert recipes
Make sure your Christmas guests save room for pudding – they won’t want to miss out on one of these showstopper Christmas dessert recipes.
These festive puds are all dressed to impress. Choose from fancy layered trifles, leaning towers of profiteroles, yule logs, festive cheesecakes, chocolate meringue wreaths and many more. We’ve got mulled pears, a black forest trifle, a wonderful Christmas bundt cake and more.
If you’re feeling traditional, we’ve even put a showstopper spin on Christmas pudding… and you can find even more festive desserts in our collection.
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Show-stopping Christmas desserts
Mulled wine snowdrift meringue pie
Now here’s how you create some drama at the Christmas table! This mulled wine snowdrift pie is a festive twist on lemon meringue pie.
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Pears
Mulled pears, three ways
This showstopping trio of mulled poached pears - simmered in wine, white tea or cider - offers something for everyone at your Christmas table
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Show-stopping Christmas desserts
Triple chocolate baubles
With a triple-threat of white chocolate shell, milk choc truffle and dark choc mousse, these baubles are a stunning make-ahead Christmas pud.
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Christmas gingerbread
Gingerbread s’mores tree
Break off a few pieces of gingerbread tree, sandwich with toasted marshmallow snowballs and dip in choc for a s’mores-inspired festive bite.
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Show-stopping Christmas desserts
Black forest ‘forest’ trifle
This dramatic Christmas dessert embraces the elements of a black forest gateau – cherries, chocolate and kirsch – using trifle-like layers.
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Pannacotta
Coffee and malt biscuit pannacotta
In need of a speedy dessert recipe? You can't go wrong with this creamy, light (and vegetarian) coffee pannacotta.
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Trifles
Orange and ginger cake trifle
Orange trifle makes a glorious Christmas dessert. Orange jelly is topped with ginger cake, white choc pannacotta and Eton Mess cream.
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Bundt cakes
Christmas bundt cake
Create a festive showstopper with our Christmas bundt cake. Master the base recipe, then adapt the ingredients to best suit your tastebuds.
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Celebrity chef Christmas recipes
Jeremy Lee’s profiterole tower
A classic profiterole tower: delicate choux puffs stuffed with custard and ice cream, with a jug of warm chocolate sauce to pour over the top.
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Make-ahead Christmas desserts
Chocolate coconut meringue wreath
This is one epic dessert. A chocolate coconut meringue wreath topped with fruit curd, chocolate cream, toasted coconut and melted chocolate.
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Trifles
Chocolate and caramel popcorn trifle
Trifle can be an epic undertaking but this crunchy chocolate and caramel trifle, despite being made from scratch, only takes 30 mins to make.
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Christmas puddings
Spiced pear and chai pudding
Full of spice and laden with caramel sauce, Georgina Hayden's sticky pear and chai pud is a welcome twist on traditional Christmas pudding.
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Trifles
Sherry trifle with praline and orange custard
Our stunning sherry trifle is topped with orange custard, a billowing layer of cream and praline shards. The perfect festive dessert.
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Cheesecakes
Lindor white chocolate and passion fruit cheesecake
For a truly decadent festive dessert, top delicious white chocolate cheesecake with passion fruit, toasted coconut and white choc Lindor.
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Festive desserts
Baileys yule log
Give yule log a boozy twist with a splash of Baileys. Chocolate roulade is filled with luscious Baileys frosting in this make-ahead recipe.
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Sharing recipes to feed a crowd
Giant Ferrero Rocher éclair to share
The award for the biggest, best pastry goes to our giant Ferrero Rocher éclair. This showstopper serves 8-10 for an ideal Christmas dessert.
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