Japanese soufflé cheesecake with yuzu-caramel sauce
Japanese soufflé cheesecake is all about the light, airy texture. This cheesecake is left unflavoured to…
Vegetarian
🍽 Serves 8-10⏱ 20 min hands-on · 50 min oven◆ Easy
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Make-ahead Christmas dessert recipes
No one wants to be stuck in the kitchen making pudding after a massive Christmas lunch – use one of our best make-ahead Christmas dessert recipes so that you can relax on the big day. Many of the options we’ve included are decadent but still really easy to make – like this Bailey’s chocolate trifle. We’ve also got some budget Christmas dessert ideas to inspire you as well.
Some of our most popular desserts include a dramatic (but simple!) black forest ‘forest’ trifle and snowy tres leches eggnog cake – or go classic with a Christmas Yule log. Chocolate mousse is always a crowdpleaser and our version includes a simple orange gel for a cheffy touch. Prefer something totally fruity? Pop these rhubarb and grapefruit possets in the fridge.
Need help narrowing it down? Here’s our separate collections for trifles, chocolate tarts, Christmas puddings and cheesecakes.
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Passion fruit tart no-bake cheesecake
The tangy zing of the passion fruit jelly topping offers just the right amount of contrast…
🍽 Serves 8-10⏱ 20 min hands-on · 5 min oven◆ Easy
Basque forest cheesecake
Channelling Black Forest energy in a northern Spanish setting, this Basque cheesecake is a showstopper dessert…
Gluten-freeVegetarian
🍽 Serves 10-12⏱ 20 min hands-on · 50 min oven◆ Easy
Mulled wine snowdrift meringue pie
Now here’s how you create some drama at the Christmas table! This mulled wine snowdrift meringue…
Vegetarian
🍽 Serves 12⏱ 1 hour hands-on · 30 min oven◆ Medium
Pandoro tiramisu tree cake
A bit of simple slicing turns this pandoro into a Christmas tree cake. Douse it in…
Vegetarian
🍽 Serves 12⏱ 40 min hands-on◆ Easy
Tipsy snowman choux buns
These adorable bite-size snowmen are filled with a Baileys-spiked cream – which may explain why they’re…
Vegetarian
🍽 Makes 40⏱ 1 hour 15 min hands-on · 20 min oven◆ Medium
Philip Khoury’s pistachio, chocolate and cherry yule log
Create a magical Christmas woodland scene with this yule log from expert pastry chef Phil Khoury…
Dairy-freeFreezable
🍽 Serves 8⏱ 1 hour 30 min hands-on · 1 hour 40 min oven◆ Challenge
Maple-peanut parfait with peanut brittle and boozy prunes
Parfait is the ultimate make-ahead dessert when you want to impress. This recipe amps things up…
FreezableGluten-free
🍽 Serves 6⏱ 45 min hands-on◆ Medium
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. Meanwhile, the…
Vegetarian
🍽 Serves 8-10⏱ 30 min hands-on · 25 min oven◆ Medium
Dark chocolate mousse with blood orange gel and hazelnut crumb
This is a proper French chocolate mousse with no cream, relying instead on egg yolks for…
Vegetarian
🍽 Serves 6-8⏱ 30 min hands-on◆ Medium
Air fryer eggnog cheesecake
Baked cheesecakes are guaranteed to please a crowd, and they’re brilliant cooked in the air fryer.…
🍽 Serves 6-8⏱ 20 min. Air fryer time 45 min hands-on · 45 min oven◆ Easy
Mini baked alaskas
Introducing our failsafe mini baked alaskas. This tried-and-tested recipe by food producer Pollyanna Coupland combines a…
FreezableVegetarian
🍽 Makes 6⏱ 2 hours hands-on · 8 min oven◆ Challenge
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