Dessert

Nigel Slater’s recipes for a teatime fruit cake and an orange and almond layer cake

An urgent need for cake. An old-fashioned one, studded with dried fruit, or perhaps a slice of something more frivolous, with a citrus filling and iced top and sides....

Ravneet Gill’s recipe for tinned cherry bakewell pudding | The sweet spot

There’s something comforting about a bakewell-style pudding. After I had my son Donnie, I’d pop one in the...

Benjamina Ebuehi’s recipe for smoked salt chocolate creme brulee | The sweet spot

There are few things I love more than baked custard, and I’m reminded of just how easy it...

How to turn browned bananas into a brilliant ice-cream – recipe | Waste not

Brown bananas are a gooey, sweet gift from the gods that just keeps giving. If you don’t have...

How to make battenberg cake – recipe | Felicity Cloake

Mark Kermode once claimed that this gaudy, chequerboard cake exists solely in Alan Bennett dramas. And though it...

How to make plum cobbler – recipe | Felicity Cloake

Before crumble, which is a surprisingly recent addition to the pudding canon, there was cobbler, a similarly homely dish of baked fruit with a...

How to make the perfect flan (or French custard tart) – recipe | Felicity Cloake

Flan: not the cheese-and-tomato traybake served up for British school dinners or the Latin American creme caramel, but the magnificent custard tart that stands...

Thai-style slaw, dal and sponge pudding: Ravinder Bhogal’s apple recipes

Our orchards offer a bounty of apples in the autumn. Last year, I went apple picking and returned home with bags full of different...

Benjamina Ebuehi’s recipe for blackberry and peanut butter tart | The sweet spot

I’ve got a similar recipe to this tart in my most recent cookbook. That version includes a rich peanut frangipane and is studded with...

Ravneet Gill’s recipe for apple fritters | The sweet spot

These strike the perfect balance between something refreshing and decadent, without being too sweet. My husband and I devoured these fritters for brunch, and...

How to make the perfect blueberry pie – recipe | Felicity Cloake

One of the great revelations of my recent trip to the US was the quality and variety of sweet pies – from California to...