Pudding recipes for winter and beyond
Bread and butter, lemon delicious, self-saucing. These are the pudding recipes you need.
The Melbourne bakery that pipes fresh cannoli to order
In Melbourne’s Avondale Heights, the Mellini family is faithfully recreating one of Sicily’s sweetest traditions.
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It’s pronounced “meel-foy”: layer up with these millefeuille recipes
There's layers of delicate puff pastry with something sweet sandwiched in between. What's not to love?
How to make a layer cake
Pastry chef Catherine Adams takes us through how to make the high-rise cake, step by step.
Agostino’s chocolate, clementine and aniseed zaletti
It's the traditional Venetian raisin and cornmeal biscuit, but made more heavenly with chocolate, clementine and aniseed.
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Pears baked in Marsala
A syrup of brown sugar and Marsala adds rich flavour and depth to pears, while creamy ricotta tempers the sweetness.
Chocolate self-saucing pudding with miso and sesame crunch
The addition of red miso paste might sound odd in a dessert, but it adds a delicious, salty umami to this chocolate and sesame pudding.
Chocolate, apricot and rum pound cake
It's not what you'd call a traditional pound cake. It calls for different quantities of flour, sugar, eggs and butter, but know this – it is delicious.
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Chocolate liégeois
Coffee granita, chocolate mousse and a cherry on top. This dessert is the whole package.
Christina Tosi’s banana cream pie
Recipe for banana cream pie by Christina Tosi from Momofuku Milk Bar in New York.
Jordan Toft’s mandarin and yoghurt frozen slice
Part sorbet, part gelato, part meringue. This slice has it all.
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Macadamia panna cotta by Alberto’s Lounge
It's the minimalist simplicity of a panna cotta, but made Australian with macadamia.
Six churros recipes to try
It's easy to see why this deep-fried treat is one we keep coming back to.
Churros with chocolate sauce
Everybody loves churros. Paired with a smooth chocolate sauce and they're near irresistible.
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Sago pudding
This dessert is popular in Malaysia and Singapore, and we can why – it's pretty, simple and sweet with palm-sugar syrup.
Ryan Gosling, the candy bar (aka an inverted Polly Waffle)
Marshmallow on the outside, chocolate filling on the inside. Unlike his cereal, Mr Gosling would gobble this up.
How to make ganache
Alistair Wise, of Hobart’s Sweet Envy, steers us through one of the pastry kitchen’s most essential – and mesmerising – preparations.
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Raspberry and shortbread syllabub
Whip up this traditional English dessert in minutes. It has a lovely light, billowy texture, offset by the tang of raspberries and buttery crumble of shortbread.
A guide to Middle Eastern sweets
Know your baklawa from your basma with our guide to Middle Eastern sweets.
How to make kulich
Sweet yeasted bread studded with fruit? Come Easter, the hot cross bun is one answer. Pastry chef Catherine Adams introduces another, the traditional Easter bread of Russia.
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Capitano’s rockmelon granita with a Suze float
A simple, fresh and fruity way to finish a meal.
The Agrarian Kitchen Eatery’s Meyer lemon shaker pie
“This is a pie we’ve made on several occasions when Meyer lemons have come our way,” says Ali Currey-Voumard.
Chocolate and hazelnut Kugelhopf
Hobart's Sweet Envy have crafted their own version of the Central European cake with a crunchy hazelnut filling and a drizzle of dark chocolate ganache.
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Jaclyn Koludrovic’s ricotta with white poached quince and honey
Pastry chef Jaclyn Koludrovic shares the recipe for her sweet ricotta dessert, which is best served with quinces poached low-and-slow.
Jaci Koludrovic’s caramelised Marsala pear crostata
It's not a strictly traditional recipe, but the this crostata will still have you coming back for seconds.
Choc-orange cake with Jaffa buttercream
Get the party started with this classic chocolate-orange cake, with a rich buttercream and crushed Jaffas.
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Flour and Stone’s pink grapefruit sponge with strawberries and sesame frosting
Guaranteed to fill your kitchen with dreamy baking aromas and the irresistible fragrance of grapefruit zest.
Mango, coconut and lemongrass ice blocks
These frosty fruit pops hit all the right tropical notes.
Amaretto-glazed peaches with mascarpone and biscotti
Summer peaches need little improvement, but it’s hard to go wrong with mascarpone, an amaretto glaze and a crumble of biscotti.
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Pretzel brittle with ice-cream
It has salt, sweetness, and crunch, and smashed over ice-cream, this is tough dessert to beat.
Red papaya with sheep’s milk yoghurt
A quick and easy dessert for when papayas are looking good in the fruit shop.
Bar Rochford’s hay panna cotta with chamomile pears and malt crumb
Cuddle up to this silky dessert, courtesy of Canberra's Bar Rochford.
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The Summertown Aristologist’s rhubarb spelt tart
A favourite dessert recipe from the team at the much-loved Adelaide Hills restaurant.
What’s in a Black Forest cake?
This impressive dessert gâteau never goes out of fashion.
Carrot cupcakes with cream-cheese icing
For the morning tea party to rule them all.
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Fast desserts
That sweet tooth waits for no one.
Raspberry-almond crumble galettes
When you're stuck for dessert ideas, pre-made puff pastry comes to the rescue. You'll knock over this galette recipe in no time.
Glazed figs with salted caramel ice-cream
Brushed with rapadura sugar and doused in muscat, you'll want to sink your teeth into these as soon as possible.
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Sean Moran’s tropical fruit cup with coconut cream and finger lime jelly
Remember the saccharine "fruit cups" of your childhood? This is Sean Moran's grown-up version.
Jonathan Barthelmess’s strawberry galaktoboureko
Jonathan Barthelmess shares his recipe for a fruity version of this flaky Greek dessert.
Coconut bundts with mango, passionfruit and lime
A bundt cake recipe that makes the most of the summer fruit season: a sprinkle of coconut, the tang of passionfruit and lime, and the sweet fleshy goodness of mango.
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Tres leches cake with roasted peaches
Triple the milk, triple the delight. This Latin American go-to is so light and fluffy, you'll be making it again and again.
Peach and basil sorbet
No ice-cream maker? No problem.
Almond and hokey-pokey ice-cream sponge roll
This ice-cream, sponge cake and hokey-pokey mash-up is what it's all about.
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Palisa Anderson’s pandan, tapioca and young coconut pudding
Fragrant pandan, chewy tapioca and sweet young coconut combine in a more-ish Thai dessert.
Fleet’s nectarine tarte Tatin with vanilla and thyme
A fruity variation of one of Fleet's most requested dessert recipes.
Nadine Ingram’s passionfruit tart
This tangy and creamy passionfruit tart will bring a ray of sunshine to your morning tea.
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Jaci Koludrovic’s rocky-road cake
This recipe has all the pleasures of a rocky-road – pillowy marshmallow, fudgy chocolate – in cake form.
Raspberry and coconut layer cake
Love Iced VoVos? Our maxed-out cake, layered with raspberry jam, covered in fluffy buttercream and topped with raspberry and coconut has a whack of nostalgia, and bells and whistles for good measure. Now this is a party.
Anzac and golden syrup ice-cream sandwiches
Looks like an ice-cream sandwich, tastes like an Anzac biscuit.
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Fairy-bread cake
Your childhood birthday cake dreams have come true.
Berry bundt cake
Bundt cakes always impress. This one pops with mixed berries and tangy lemon icing.
Bert’s passionfruit and elderflower pavlova
A heavenly pavlova recipe by Jordan Toft, head chef at Bert's in Newport, Sydney.
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Rhubarb and raspberry brownie
A classic rich chocolate brownie, dotted with the fruity flavours of rhubarb and raspberries. It's perfect dessert to take to a picnic.
Flour and Stone’s trifle with madeleines, lemon curd and peaches
Nadine Ingram of Sydney's Flour and Stone shares her showstopping Christmas dessert.
Pineapple and coconut cake
With tropical pineapple and coconut flavours, a silky sponge and vanilla cream-cheese frosting, this tray cake is the perfect sweet finish for your outdoor feast.
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Chocolate-hazelnut meringue cake
Dense and fudgy chocolate cake contrasts beautifully with feather-light chocolate meringue in this moreish cake.
Banana split with coconut
A crowd-pleasing dessert that’s made in no time you say? This banana split delivers.
Mango-lime granita
Mangoes and coconut are a dreamy summer pair. Here we've used them as the base for a granita that then gets a kick from makrut lime leaves and plenty of lime juice.
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Watermelon and cherry salad with cheat’s cherry granita
Straightforward and speedy.
Baked ricotta pudding with mandarin, honey and chamomile compote
A simple mandarin compote adds zest and brightness to this ricotta pudding, as would your favourite jam or marmalade.
Rocky road with almonds, goji berries and strawberries
It may feel sacrilegious to mess with a childhood favourite, but this spin on rocky road adds goji berries and freeze-dried strawberries to balance out the sweetness. It’s all the better for it.
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Apple and berry budino
This Italian dessert is endlessly versatile. Use whatever fruit is in season - just be sure to serve it piping hot.
Jaclyn Koludrovic’s roasted white chocolate and ricotta cannoli
The nutty taste of roasted white chocolate brings a whole new element to these sweet Italian pastries.
Matcha-coconut pudding
If you love bubble tea, you're in for a treat with this chilled pudding dotted with pearls of tapioca.
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Jaclyn Koludrovic’s lemon polenta cakes with pistachio nuts and mascarpone
These small cakes pack a mighty punch. Soaked in lemon syrup and topped with mascarpone frosting, they're a taste of Sicily in every bite.
Jaclyn Koludrovic’s toasted flour fig roulade with lemon mascarpone
The sponge in this roulade has an pleasant nutty flavour thanks to using toasted flour. It's a baking trick we know we'll keep coming back to. Try it for yourself and see.
Guy Grossi’s globi (Italian ricotta doughnuts)
Ricotta. Doughnuts. Need we say more?
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Lemonpi’s peanut and miso shortbread bars
These tasty fingers of butterscotch-topped shortbread are an ideal balance of sweet and salty flavours.
Yu-ching Lee’s chocolate, Earl Grey and honey-ganache brownie
Completely unlike any other brownie you've had.
Roasted mandarins with ginger custard
The formula for dessert success is as easy as peeling some mandarins and popping them in the oven. No time to make custard? Cream works just as well.
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Quince, rooibos and coriander seed tarts
With an ingredient list like this, it could only be the work of one pastry chef: the inimitable Yu-Ching Lee.
Milk pudding in espresso
A jolt of hot espresso is the perfect foil for these creamy, just-set puddings.
Pistachio baklava
We think the layering process of baklava is like meditation. The eating, meanwhile, is pure joy.
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Honey and saffron roasted pears with spiced yoghurt
This simple dessert can be eaten warm, cold or at room temperature, and you could do far worse than serve the leftovers for breakfast.
Corella pear tarte Tatin
For a tart that's as good as it looks.
Orange blossom milk puddings with mandarin
This delicate dessert is lightly scented with orange and mandarin and is a perfect way to embrace citrus season.
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Grape and rapadura tart
Think of this as step up from a good old-fashioned glazed-fruit tart.
Squished apple tart
One of those rare occasions when squashed fruit is a good thing.
Pinbone’s hazelnut tiramisù
Adding Nutella to tiramisù may not be orthodox but it sure adds a special quality to what could be Italy's most famous dessert.
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Chocolate-coconut pudding with passionfruit and ice-cream
No passionfruit? These easy chocolate puddings work just as well topped with fresh berries or a dollop of your favourite jam.
Stokehouse Q’s dark chocolate pots de crème with ginger pear
These baked chocolate custards are a winning trifecta of dark chocolate, pear and ginger.
Black and white cheesecake
It's double the chocolate and double the fun with this cheesecake. Are you game to try it?
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Strawberry pistachio cakes
This simple cake base lends itself to experimentation – use different nuts, or top with another choice of fruit. Slivers of apricot would work well, as would other berries or plums.
Raw black forest truffles
Clean eating takes an even tastier turn.
Watermelon-rose pavlova wreath
This wreath-shaped pavlova ramps up the festivity factor. A cream made with a simple drained yoghurt makes a change from the more usual cream topping and cuts through the sweetness of the pav.
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Shaved ice with espresso and marscapone
Think of this as the love child of an affogato and tiramisù. So simple and so, so good.
Passionfruit-white chocolate semifreddo sandwiches
The striking colour of this passionfruit semifreddo only adds to the fun of an ice-cream sandwich. We've added wattleseed and macadamia nuts to our biscuits for extra texture and Australian flavour.
The last snow egg
Peter Gilmore invites us into the kitchen at Quay to witness the making of the last snow egg.
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Pineapple Zappo tarts
These sunshine-coloured tarts will brighten up any meal. Inspired by the Pineapple Zappo lolly of our youth, it's a sweet-sour explosion of flavour.
Flour and Stone’s lemon dream cake
Recipe for lemon dream cake by Nadine Ingram from Sydney bakery Flour & Stone.
Pineapple carpaccio with mango sorbet
Tropical flavours are given room to shine in this super simple dessert.
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Scorched honey cheesecake soft-serve
Only good things can happen when you combine cheesecake and ice-cream.
Avocado-chocolate mousse
Chocolate and avocado - the unlikely combination you never knew you needed.
Grilled mango sundae
A simple dessert with minimal fuss and maximum flavour.
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Chilled rice pudding with honeyed figs
Rice pudding makes a gorgeous chilled dessert, particularly topped with honeyed figs.
No-churn strawberry crème fraîche ice-cream
Strawberry ice-cream without a need for a machine? Yes, please.
Mango, papaya and chilled coconut tapioca
This recipe is a perfect summer dessert, featuring coconut soaked tapioca and a hint of salt to balance the sweetness of the mango and papaya.
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Emma McCaskill’s white peaches with rosewater, honey and fromage blanc
The sweet flesh of ripe peaches takes centre-stage in this simple recipe.
Pine-lime and coconut pops
These pineapple-lime icy poles are offset by a creamy coconut base. The addition of a lemon myrtle and mint dip is the finishing touch you never knew you needed - until now.
