Pastissets are lighter than air and covered in sugar. What more could you ever want? These lovely biscuits are from the Catalonia and Baleares regions of Spain, and have…
These are little sweet bites for dessert or a teatime treat. Friands are light almond cakes, popular in New Zealand and Australia. We’ve added in some delicious flavours to…
A decadent dessert made less naughty with some fresh fruit. Pomegranate and prickly pear cream-cheese tartlets are sinfully creamy, but the delicate prickly pears and sharp pomegranates balance out the…
An updated version of the classic version, prickly pear and lemon meringue pie is even more deliciously zesty. …
The perfect combination of sweet and savoury flavours in these blue cheese, onion and grape pastries…
It’s almost guaranteed that you’ve never tasted something like grape and fennel seed tart before. These delicious flavours are highly unusual, but work beautifully together. Recipe by Marlene van der…
Vanilla orange custard slices are little slices of heaven and perfect for a teatime treat. The creaminess of the custard is undercut by a refreshing citrus tang, and the light…
This gorgeous dessert come courtesy of Keith Frisley, Executive Sous Chef at The Fourseasons Westcliff Hotel. As a Granny Smith is one of his favourite ingredients and a big source of…
This Sicilian cannoli recipe is a homage to one of Italy’s favourite sweet treats. Meaning “little tubes”, cannoli are straight from your dessert dreams: deep-fried curls of pastry filled…
It might have them in its name, but this frangipane apple tart doesn’t actually contain any flowers. Instead, frangipane refers to a distinctively delicious almond paste that’s the star…
Cook’s tip: You can also use plain icing and decorate with jelly tots, smarties, crushed candy canes, chocolate chips, hundreds and thousands, etc. Decorating biscuits is a great activity…
There’s something about the salty creaminess of cheese and tart berries that just make a perfect combination. Ricotta and berry tartlets are the perfect example. If you’re short on time, you…