Sweet pastry recipes
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Lesley Water's light flaky pastry filled with vanilla fruit and crunchy Cheerios is delicious with a dollop of crème fraiche.
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This classic American pumpkin pie with warming spices is delicious with crème fraiche or ice cream.
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These mince pies take a bit of time to prepare and you need to make the mixture the day before - but they're worth every fruity bite!
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These deliciously sweet strawberry slices can take centre-stage at afternoon tea - or serve as a very impressive dessert
New recipes
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Pan-fried blackberry tart
Make use of your garden blackberries in this easy two-step…
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Easy plum and bilberry pie
As the name suggests, this is a brilliantly simple pie to…
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Treacle tart
A tasty, traditional British dessert from the BBC show…
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Dessert
From traditional crumbles and treacle pudding to classic fruit tarts and…
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Cheesecake
Chocolate ripple cheesecake, baked American cheesecake, blueberry cheesecake...
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Crumble
Plum crumble, strawberry oat crumble, raspberry crumble muffins, Rhubarb and…
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Low-fat dessert
Summer pudding, frozen yogurt, Rosemary Conley's cherry pudding...
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Ice cream
Chocolate-covered ice cream balls, honey ripple ice cream, toffee & vodka ice…
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Chocolate dessert
Sacher torte, chocolate mud pots, dairy-free chocolate pud...
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Steamed pudding
Treacle sponge, spotted dick, old-fashioned chocolate steamed pudding...
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Classic dessert
Banoffee pie, bread & butter pudding, jam roly poly, fruit crumble...
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Jelly
Fresh fruit jellies, sparkling Shiraz jelly, Pimm's jelly, berry jelly layers...
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Meringue
Lemon meringue pie, perfect berry pavlova, chocolate meringues, baked Alaska...
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Custard
Treacle sponge and custard, Phil Vickery's apple fool, vanilla tea custard,…
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Trifle
Classic English trifle, sherry trifle, boozy strawberry trifle, decadent…
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Toffee
Toffee apples, banoffee pie and chocolate sticky toffee pudding
Your favourite sweet pastry recipes
Pastry's not nearly as hard to make as you might think but if you're not sure, lots of these recipes use shop bought pastry (which is just as good!). Our current favourite sweet pastry dessert recipes are:
