Spring dessert recipes
Bake a fruity dessert or two this season with our spring dessert recipes. The sun is staying out for longer, so celebrate with sweet treats like strawberries, gooseberries, or blackcurrants in a tart, crumble, or pavlova topped with lashings of cream.
Our spring dessert recipes make the most of the season’s flavours: think elderflower, lemon, gooseberries, and of course, shocking pink rhubarb!
There’s also some classic spring treats like pannacotta, posset, lemon meringue pie, and cheesecake. Enjoy!
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Gooseberries
Elderflower and gooseberry tart
Delicate elderflower lifts tart gooseberries in this elegant riff on tarte au citron. This seasonal bake is the perfect late spring dessert.
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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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Mango desserts
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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Chocolate mousse
Chocolate mousse cake
Fudgy, dense chocolate cake meets light and fluffy chocolate mousse in this impressive dessert recipe that will feed a whole gathering.
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March seasonal
Rhubarb, ginger and custard galette
Our rhubarb galette looks gorgeous but is easy to make. A base of ginger and custard powder combines with the rhubarb juices as it bakes.
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Rhubarb
Rhubarb and custard brioche loaf
Peell away the layers of this heavenly tear-and-share brioche loaf. Between each sheet of pillowy dough sits a rich rhubarb custard.
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Rhubarb
Deep-fried custard with rhubarb dipping sauce
Rhubarb and custard like you’ve never seen it before! Our take on Italy's crema fritta pairs deep-fried custard croquettes with rhubarb sauce.
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Blueberries
Blueberry Basque cheesecake
Try Half-Baked Harvest's delicious spin on Basque cheesecake. The creamy filling is bursting with blueberries and has a flaky pastry crust.
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Afternoon tea
Rhubarb and rosé wine crumble tart
This stunning rhubarb tart with custard filling and pistachio pastry is easier to make than it looks - thank you, shop-bought custard!
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Rhubarb
Rhubarb and pistachio syrup cake
This fragrant rhubarb cake has a golden sponge with rhubarb folded in. Douse with rhubarb syrup and sprinkle with pistachios to serve.
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Dinner party desserts
Michel Roux Jr’s Îles flottantes
Master this classic French dessert Îles flottantes which sees a perfect custard topped with meringues then covered in caramel. How you flavour the custard is up to you!
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Fruity cheesecakes
Mango cheesecake
This no-bake mango cheesecake from Avinash Shashidhara is a must-try, make-ahead marvel. Imagine mango lassi reincarnated in dessert form!
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Caribbean
Sticky Jamaican ginger cake with butterscotch sauce
Layers of deliciously sticky spiced Jamaican ginger cake are sandwiched with a butterscotch sauce and smothered in orange mascarpone cream.
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Cheesecakes
Blueberry gin and tonic cheesecake
Top a seriously creamy cheesecake with juicy blueberries and a clear gin and tonic jelly for a grown-up dessert that'll get everyone talking.
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Platinum Jubilee
Lemon and strawberry meringue cake
Expect gasps when you unveil this gloriously OTT strawberry cake filled with lemon curd, berries and cream and topped with a meringue crown.
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Platinum Jubilee
Lemon madeleines with gin and Dubonnet sorbet
Debora Robertson's lemon madeleines with gin and dubonnet sorbet are a delicious Anglo-French celebration dessert for the Queen's Jubilee.
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