A silky smooth chocolate tart, with a biscuit base, which is so easy to make. This decadent tart serves well as a dessert, served with some whipped cream.
Desserts
Recipes for desserts
Apple & Sultana Plait, Braid or Danish
Apple & Sultana Plait, Braid or Danish is a great dessert. A simple shop bought puff pastry filled with apples and sultanas, baked in the oven. Just perfect
Apple Crumble Cake – Bars
Apple Crumble Cake is a delicious way of having your cake and eating it. A soft and light cake base with a layer of apple and a lovely nutty crumble topping,
Almond & Apricot Tarts
Light & crumbly shortcrust pastry filled with an almond cake and some jam and topped with apricot these Almond & Apricot Tarts make a really wonderful dessert
Tarte Tropézienne -San Tropez Brioche
Tarte Tropézienne, named by Brigitte Bardot after she enjoyed it so much in San Tropez, this is a brioche filled with silky smooth creme diplomat
Creamy Rice Pudding
Rice pudding is a favourite dessert. Baked in the oven, in the UK, it is most often served hot and sometimes cold. In North America it is served cold.
Blueberry Sponge With Lemon Mascarpone
There is something very satisfying about a big slice of cake. If some fruit is added in and then some creamy smooth filling too it is even more delicious. So this easy sponge cake, in two layers, with some blueberries in the batter and a quick blueberry jam in between the layers, as well as […]
Tottenham Cake – A Traditional Bake
A lovely soft cake, topped with raspberry icing and coconut. First created in the 1800s Tottenham Cake was first created by Henry Chalkley, who lived in Tottenham which is in North London. He was a Quaker and he created the cake to by cut into pieces for the local children to enjoy a sweet treat. […]
Sticky Toffee Pudding
Rich, sweet and sticky this is the most delicious of desserts, with toffee sauce soaked into and poured over a lovely cake. The origins of Sticky Toffee Pudding seem to be in the UK in the 1970s. An article in The Guardian mentions a Mrs Martin, who may actually have got the recipe from a […]
No Churn Amaretto, Caramel & Cherry Ice Cream
I have recently made a couple of flavours of no churn ice cream which were very good indeed. But my favourite version is this one using amaretto, which is an almond liqueur. The almond flavour works so well in ice cream and the alcochol in the amaretto is just enough to keep the ice cream […]