Desserts

Rice pudding is one of the most honest and comforting desserts in British cooking. No complexity, no technique, no skill required — just pudding rice, …

There is something about a raspberry pavlova that feels more celebratory than almost any other dessert. The white cloud of meringue, the billowing cream, and …

The all-in-one Victoria sponge is Mary Berry’s own method — and it is the reason so many people who were intimidated by cake making discovered …

Lemon meringue pie is one of those desserts that has never needed reinventing. The combination of crisp, buttery pastry, sharp lemon curd filling, and a …

Apple crumble is Britain’s most loved pudding. Not the most glamorous, not the most impressive, but the most consistently, deeply satisfying. A soft, gently spiced …

Parkin is one of Britain’s most characterful regional bakes — a sticky, dense, deeply spiced oat and ginger cake from Yorkshire and Lancashire that has …

Chocolate mousse occupies a strange and wonderful place in dessert cookery — it manages to be both deeply rich and remarkably light at the same …

There is a moment with crème brûlée that never stops being satisfying — the tap of a spoon against that glassy caramel shell, the crack …

A great cheesecake is one of the most satisfying things you can make — and one of the most frequently got wrong. Too dense, too …

There is no dessert more quintessentially British than a trifle. It is the dish that appears at Christmas, at Easter, at summer garden parties, at …