Desserts

Lemon meringue pie and baked cheesecake are two of the most loved British desserts, and this recipe combines them into one dish that borrows the …

A basic white loaf is one of those things that seems almost too simple to go wrong, and yet it does, usually because the dough …

Baked Alaska looks like one of the most technically demanding desserts you could attempt at home, but the science behind it is actually quite forgiving …

Passion fruit has a sharp, intense flavour that works particularly well in a soufflé, since its tartness cuts through the inherent lightness of all that …

Peach cobbler is a genuinely simple dessert, but it goes wrong in one particular way more than any other: a filling that’s too thin and …

A raspberry soufflé lives or dies on two things: how concentrated the fruit flavour is, and how well the egg whites are whisked and folded …

A soggy pastry base is the single most common complaint about homemade apple pie, and it happens almost every time for the same reason: raw …

Banoffee pie is one of those desserts that looks like it took real effort but genuinely doesn’t, which is probably why it’s become such a …

A vanilla cupcake has nowhere to hide. There’s no fruit, no chocolate, nothing to distract from whether the sponge is light or heavy and whether …

Banana bread lives or dies on how ripe the bananas are. Barely-ripe bananas give a loaf that’s sweet enough but tastes of very little, whereas …