My Peach Melba Pavlova is a dream of a dessert: crisp-edged meringue with a marshmallow centre, spread with softly whipped cream, covered with golden peach wedges and drizzled with a sauce of pureed raspberries, then custard. The custard is an unconventional touch, to be sure, but you have the yolks over from making the pavlova and just one taste of the completed creation will ensure you won’t regret the extra effort! I like to make the pavlova base and the custard a day ahead. Keep the pavlova in airtight container in a cool place as humidity is the enemy of meringue (if I’m not using my oven further, I wait till both pav and oven are cold, and stash the pav base in it, making sure I’ve left a Post-It Note on the oven to tell anyone, my forgetful self included, not to switch it on!) and, once the covered custard is cool, store it safely in the fridge.
Pumpkin Custard Pie
This pumpkin custard pie is an old-fashioned favourite. Mix the custard in minutes, pour it directly into an unbaked pie shell, and bake!
Blackberry Galette
This is really a free-form pizza-like tart, which I made for the first time while we were doing the photography for How To Be A Domestic Goddess. We happened to have some polenta pastry left over and some spare blackberries in the fridge and I, suddenly rebelling against the planning and rule-following necessary to get all the food photographed, played around. This was the result. And really, you could use any fruit. I'd stick with the polenta or cornmeal pastry only because nothing soaks up the fruit's juices better without going soggy.
No-Fuss Fruit Tart
This is perhaps one of the most useful puddings you can have in your repertoire. Not that it is the job of a pudding to be useful: a pudding exists merely to delight. Still, dinner does need to be made, even when there’s precious little time for it and that should be a delight, too. So here’s the deal: there is pitifully little work to be done to make this berry-dazzler of a tart, and enormous pleasure to be derived from its consumption.
Bake Luxurious 19th-Century Marlborough Pie
This apple custard pie is a forgotten New England classic.
Sweet Potato Cake with Marshmallow Meringue - Whisking Wolf
Sweet Potato Cake is pillowy soft, perfectly spiced and topped with a thick layer of homemade marshmallow meringue frosting.
Caramel Croissant Pudding
I always think that some of the best recipes come from the thrifty refusal to throw anything away. Certainly, I made this one Monday evening because I had two stale croissants left over from the weekend and just knew they could be put to good use. Now, adding cream and bourbon is probably a lot less thrifty than throwing some stale bread away in the first place, but this is such a fabulous pudding that I now think it should be every Monday night's supper. And I mean supper: with something this substantial, you certainly need eat nothing beforehand. Though I admit a small crunchy salad may not be a bad idea first.
Gleaming Maple Cheesecake
This is an exquisite cheesecake, tangy and delicate, with the pronounced smokiness and subdued sweetness of the maple syrup. It has a fabulously light, smooth and voluptuous texture, and two things help ensure this: first, the cream cheese must sit out of the fridge for a good 2 hours before you make the cheesecake; second, you bake the cheesecake in a waterbath. This is very simple, and all is explained below.
Pomegranate and Pear Crostini Appetizers | Good Life Eats®
Pomegranate Pear Crostini appetizers are simple and don't need special serving utensils making this pear and pomegranate appetizer perfect for holiday parties.
Old Rag Pie
This is a salty-sweet version (think Greek cheesecake) of the Greek Patsavouropita, created by bakeries as a way of using up old scraps of filo pastry: the ”old rags” indicated by the title. They’d just go along their counters, collect up all the bits and turn them into this pie. For this reason, you don’t need to worry about keeping your filo covered as you go, as is normally advised. It doesn’t matter if it dries out a little as you make it, indeed this can even be desirable. I have made this with a variety of filo pastries, and I have found that the more widely available brands are too damp and too heavily sprinkled with flour to do the job well. Luckily, those brands make a frozen filo, which doesn’t seem to suffer from the same problems, which is why I stipulate this, below. However, should you be lucky enough to have access to good quality, authentic filo, then please use fresh. And please read the Additional Information section at the end of the recipe before proceeding.
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Vegan Pomegranate Chocolate Tart - Best Served Vegan
An easy, no bake, 10 ingredient vegan pomegranate chocolate tart that would be delicious for a date night, Valentine's Day, or holiday.
Burnt Onion and Aubergine Dip
I get many requests for this decidedly brown dip of silky savouriness, the first recipe in my chapter A Loving Defence of Brown Food in Cook, Eat, Repeat, so creamy that you would never guess it’s actually dairy-free and, indeed, vegan. True, anyone in the habit of changing nappies regularly might not find it the most appetising of sights, but one taste of it — full of rich, deep smokiness — and even those not immediately attracted come back for more. I’ve called it a dip, but actually it lends itself as well to a spread on toast or a sauce for pasta; in this latter case, you’ll need to mix in some of the starchy pasta water when you toss the pasta with it, and I like to add some chilli flakes and a little extra squeeze of lemon, too. But as a dip, it is luscious, and if I have a lot of people round, I serve the Beetroot and Chickpea Dip and the Coriander and Jalapeño Salsa alongside; the pink, green and muted ochre like tonally-tinkered-with traffic lights on the table. But it’s a sensational solo act, so there is no need to add anything alongside save for some tortilla chips (if you can get blue corn ones, I urge you to) or whatever else you want to dip into it. If you don't have a baking tray large enough for all the aubergines and onions and need to use two, then be prepared for the cooking time to be longer, and swap the trays around in the oven after about 40 minutes. And if at all possible, I recommend using 3 aubergines as stipulated below, rather than say 2 that come to the same total weight. Obviously, if that choice isn't open to you, it does work with 2, but you will need to cut them into long quarters.
Apple and Almond Cake
It's astonishing how buttery this cake tastes, given that there is not a gram of butter in it. The flour is replaced with ground almonds — and cooked, cooled, pureed fruit provides moistness and flavour. If you want a smaller cake, simply halve the ingredients and use a 20cm/ 8 inch tin. I don't find it takes appreciably less time to bake.
Sheet-Pan Hazelnut Breakfast Tart
A decadent, holiday-worthy, make-ahead breakfast that’ll feed a crowd? Look no further than this kringle-inspired hazelnut breakfast tart.
Chocolate-Dipped Hazelnut Caramel Squares
Chocolate-Dipped Hazelnut Caramel Squares Recipe
