Classic dessert recipes

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  • Phil Vickery’s apple crumble
  • Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's lemon sponge pudding
  • Banoffee pie
  • Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's plum bread and butter pudding

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  • Dessert

    Apple pie

    From traditional crumbles and treacle pudding to classic fruit tarts and…

  • Sweet pastry

    Peach cream squares

    Spiced pear tart, puff pastry hearts, quick lemon meringue pie...

  • Cheesecake

    New York Cheesecake

    Chocolate ripple cheesecake, baked American cheesecake, blueberry cheesecake...

  • Crumble

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    Plum crumble, strawberry oat crumble, raspberry crumble muffins, Rhubarb and…

  • Low-fat dessert

    Spiced poached pears

    Summer pudding, frozen yogurt, Rosemary Conley's cherry pudding...

  • Ice cream

    Raspberry ripple ice cream

    Chocolate-covered ice cream balls, honey ripple ice cream, toffee & vodka ice…

  • Chocolate dessert

    Chocolate Mocha Pots

    Sacher torte, chocolate mud pots, dairy-free chocolate pud...

  • Steamed pudding

    Treacle Sponge

    Treacle sponge, spotted dick, old-fashioned chocolate steamed pudding...

  • Jelly

    Fresh fruit jellies

    Fresh fruit jellies, sparkling Shiraz jelly, Pimm's jelly, berry jelly layers...

  • Meringue

    Pavlova

    Lemon meringue pie, perfect berry pavlova, chocolate meringues, baked Alaska...

  • Custard

    Treacle Sponge

    Treacle sponge and custard, Phil Vickery's apple fool, vanilla tea custard,…

  • Trifle

    Old English Sherry Trifle

    Classic English trifle, sherry trifle, boozy strawberry trifle, decadent…

  • Toffee

    Nutty caramel apples

    Toffee apples, banoffee pie and chocolate sticky toffee pudding

Your favourite classic dessert recipes

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You might remember them from school or a 70s dinner party, but classic dessert recipes are always going to be popular. It's nice to try new recipes but sometimes nothing but an old classic will do. Your current favourite classic dessert recipes are:

Simple lemon posset

Raspberry & almond trifle

Creamy rice pudding


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