This dessert section is what you’d want to end a beautiful meal with when entertaining friends and family. It can be as simple as a peach pie to fancy mini tea cakes to apple roses. You’ll find recipes for special occasions and holidays or for a meal spent in the backyard with friends.
My all time favourite dessert recipe is my French lemon tart.
These make ahead poached pear tarts are a beautiful treat to spoil any guest! The pears are poached in a white wine syrup, infusing them with a delicate, bright sweetness. This complements the buttery puff pastry and the nutty almond cream. It’s an elegant dessert, lovely for a special occasion or as a delightful way to end any meal. Make sure to read the entire recipe before starting so that you are well prepared.
This chocolate coconut cake has 3 layers and has a soft and light chocolatey crumb. It’s slathered in coconut buttercream icing and covered in toasted, nutty coconut. It’s a fun change on a classic layered cake and is perfect for any occasion.
Lemon cream is a sweet, tangy, light and creamy dessert topping or filling that’s a cross between lemon curd and whipping cream. It has a soft, velvety texture and adds a pop of colour to many desserts. Not to mention it only has 4 ingredients!
Homemade chocolate wafer cups are fun, easy and make a super impressive dessert! These make ahead treats are essentially mini chocolate bowls that can be filled with a variety of fillings like ice cream, whipped cream, pudding, custard or fruit.
This crustless, classic Basque ‘burnt’ cheesecake is hands down one of the easiest and most delicious cheesecakes you’ll ever make! It’s rich, ultra creamy and so sophisticated!
These mini flourless cakes only have 7 ingredients and take no time to whip up. They are super moist, decadent, chocolatey and surprisingly light! The recipe makes 4 mini cakes or makes one large cake if your heart desires! They are also naturally dairy free and gluten free so everyone can enjoy dessert!
This white chocolate raspberry cake will be your most popular cake to serve for a special day or for the holidays. And that’s a promise! The cake has 3 layers, is filled with bursts of juicy sweet raspberries and is coated in a fluffy sweet white chocolate buttercream icing. To top it off, fresh raspberries are piled on top to create a show stopper of a dessert!
Rustic yet elegant, you’re going to love this simple autumn apple cake! It’s light, moist with juicy apples and full of warm spices like cardamom, nutmeg and cinnamon. This is the perfect cake to enjoy with a hot cup of tea on those cool fall mornings.
These little, baked mini pumpkin doughnuts are super fun and easy to make. They are moist, light yet dense and filled with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and rolled in sugar.
A galette is the lazy man’s version of a pie and is very forgiving! This is the perfect summer recipe to use fresh, juicy peaches. They are wrapped gently in a flaky, buttery pie pastry and baked until browned. Change out the fruit to make any flavour of galette you’d like and use this recipe as a guideline.
This grapefruit bundt cake is super moist, sweet, tart and makes the perfect treat. It has a light crumb and is packed with citrusy, fun notes of summer. Bundt cakes pair lovely with tea or coffee but this grapefruit cake screams for bright, fresh bubbles like Prosecco.
This simple cherry creme brûlée is silky and melts in your mouth. It has a delicate flavour of baked woody cherries and you’ll find little pieces of cherries throughout! The burnt sugary crisp topping finishes off the dessert and is what gives the creme brûlée its signature name!
Cherry clafoutis is a super simple French classic recipe with sweet plump cherries baked in a buttery silky custard. It’s utterly divine and this dessert should be a must on your baking list!
Enjoy these old fashioned strawberry shortcakes with buttery, flaky biscuits, sugared strawberries and light fluffy whipped cream! They make the perfect summer treat to enjoy the season’s arrival of fresh strawberries.
This old fashioned strawberry rhubarb crisp with ginger is a simple recipe with simple ingredients. The crumble is a mixture of large flaked oats, brown sugar and butter. The topping is crunchy with a rich buttery bit and is piled high on juicy sweet and tart fruits with a hint of fresh spicy notes from the ginger. This will forever be your favourite spring/summer crisp (and that’s a promise)!
This is a traditional French lemon tart that’s perfectly tangy with a citrus curd filling and a buttery crisp crust. Simply top with whipped cream and fresh fruit or my favourite sugared blueberries!
This 6″ spring classic vanilla cake is anything but ordinary! With cute bunny ears made from fresh thyme and spring flowers this cake will impress your guests! The three layers of perfectly delicate, light and airy cake are slathered in a fluffy buttercream vanilla icing.
These mini carrot cake loaves are super moist and the sweetest size. Each cake is filled with crushed pineapple, raisins, cinnamon and ginger. And of course carrots and pecans! They are topped with light fluffy, lemon cream cheese icing and chopped pecans. This recipe feeds a crowd and can be turned into cupcakes or one large layered cake.
This gingerbread Yule log will become a holiday favourite! The beauty of this cake will absolutely wow your guests and believe it or not it’s simpler to make than it looks! The cake is a soft and airy gingerbread sponge cake, full of spices and molasses! Then it’s filled and iced with a rum flavoured whipped cream! It’s simply irresistible!
This 4 layer chocolate cake is rich, chocolatey and moist. It’s a classic dessert that never goes out of style and is the perfect ending for any meal.
This is a simple recipe to enjoy during the autumn and winter. These baked apples with brown sugar are like little individual apple crumbles without any fuss. The filling is similar to a crumble with oats, nuts and cinnamon!
This almond pear cake is a simple yet elegant dessert to wow your guests. It’s light in texture and full of nutty almond flavour! The pears are simply nestled within the cake batter and peak through as the cake bakes. It’s an absolute stunner of a cake!
I'm a professional baker, recipe developer & photographer behind Baking For Friends. I specialize in classic & comforting baking. I hope you enjoy the recipes & find inspiration of your own to bring your family & friends together over home-cooked food!
I'm a professional baker, recipe developer & photographer behind Baking For Friends. I specialize in classic & comforting baking. I hope you enjoy the recipes & find inspiration of your own to bring your family & friends together over home-cooked food!
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