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Desserts and Sweets Recipes

Various pastries on white ceramic tray

Desserts. Atanas Paskalev / Pixabay.com / 2019 / CC0 1.0

Desserts can be served room-temperature, warm, hot, chilled or frozen. They are usually a sweet food, but the dessert course can include a savoury item such as cheese, or nuts.

Recipes in this section have largely been selected to illustrate or support entries in the encyclopaedia.

See also: Desserts (main entry)

  • Desserts and Sweets Recipes

    • Almond & Chocolate Chip Loaf Recipe

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      A fabulous loaf that couldn’t be less fuss.

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    • Anzac Biscuits Recipe

      Anzac Biscuits

      Anzac Biscuits are crisp oatmeal cookies that are very good with tea. Various associations in Australia and New Zealand make them around Anzac Day to fundraise for veterans.

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    • Apple & Berry Nut Crumble

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      A lovely warming, filling dessert, so save room for it.

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    • Apple and Almond Treacle Tart

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      Very, very good.

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    • Apple Pie Recipe

      Apple pie

      Every apple pie recipe is great, and the best tasting apple pie is the one that you didn’t have to make but get to eat. But, here’s a recipe to how bakery “professionals” approach an apple pie, if you’re curious. It’s the method that is taught in some pastry classes.

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    • Apple Pie with Custard Filling

      Apple Pie with Custard Filling

      This is an apple pie that tastes like the most wonderful old-fashioned apple pie in the world, but it has three surprises: a phyllo pastry crust, a layer of custard hiding under the apples, and, it’s incredibly low in calories.

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    • Apricot and Oat Squares Recipe

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      Very delicious, with a rich enough taste to set out at special occasions.

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    • Apricot Squares

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      These squares look beautiful, are chewy and crunchy, and are a real crowd pleaser.

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    • Baked Bananas

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      A simple, fruity dessert, especially for those who are finicky about eating fresh fruit.

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    • Baked Rice Pudding Recipe

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      Feel free to doctor this rice pudding recipe up with either dried fruits or other flavourings.

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    • Bakewell Pudding Recipe

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      A classic English dessert.

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    • Banana Mincemeat Pie Recipe

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      A very interesting and yummy way to present mincemeat. Nice served warm.

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    • Barbados Banana Bread Recipe

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      This banana bread is so tropical, you’ll almost be tempted to serve it with a paper umbrella sticking out of each slice.

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    • Barbequed Bananas

      Barbequed bananas

      This is a dessert that you make partly on the barbeque grill, which is interesting, as there are very few dessert recipes that involve actually using the barbeque. This is also a fun recipe for kids to make (with adult supervision) and can provide an opportunity to introduce them to barbeque safety.

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    • Bean Pie Recipe

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      You serve this as a dessert pie. They’ll probably think it’s pumpkin.

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    • Beet Cake Recipe

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      They’ll never know there’s beet in it.

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    • Blonde Brownies Recipe

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      A classic blonde brownie recipe.

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    • Blueberry Polenta Cake Recipe

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      A very interesting use for polenta!

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    • Boston Cookies Recipe

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      A classic North American drop cookie recipe. Recipe from: Fannie Merritt Farmer.

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    • Bourbon Pecan Pie Recipe

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      A classic pecan pie recipe.

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    • Butter Brickle and Chocolate Nut Pieces

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      A very easy candy to make at home.

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    • Butter Tarts Recipe

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      Butter tarts are a traditional Canadian (and Scottish) dessert.

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    • Caramelized Apple Risotto Pudding

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      A nice, yummy rice pudding.

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    • Caramelized Bread & Butter Pudding

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      A very good, comfort-food dessert.

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    • Chancellor’s Pudding Recipe

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      A classic English pudding recipe.

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    • Cheat’s Trifle

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      A very quick trifle recipe.

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    • Cheesecake Brownies

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      The name says it all; these are rich and fabulous.

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    • Chocolate and Chestnut Fudge Cake

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      A very rich, delicious no-bake cake.

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    • Chocolate Crackles Recipe

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      This is a great recipe to get kids to make, with your supervision.

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    • Chocolate Popcorn Recipe

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      Looks fabulous, and tastes just as great. A really fun recipe to make.

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    • Chocolate Sauce Sponge Recipe

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      This is so easy that the package mixes for these kinds of puddings really don’t save you much work.

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    • Christmas Crème Brulée

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      A great way to serve leftover Christmas cake as a whole new dessert. You can make these the day before or in the morning.

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    • Coconut Cake Recipe

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      This recipe requires a food processor, but on the upside, a food processor makes it lightning fast.

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    • Cranberry Mince Pie Recipe

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      This is a real mid-Atlantic dish: British mincemeat meets North American cranberries, pecans and corn syrup. And it is really good.

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    • Crème Anglaise Brûlée (Burnt Custard) Recipe

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      If you really want to impress your friends, tell them this is crème anglaise brûlée. It’s really just custard with hardened, melted sugar on top.

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    • Custard Pie Surprise Recipe

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      Recipes with surprise attached to their name are legion — and often the surprise is lunch bag letdown. This one is truly worthy of its name.

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    • Custard Rhubarb Pie Recipe

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      The tartness of the rhubarb acts as a foil to the richness of the custard.

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    • Dutch Baby Recipe

      Dutch baby

      A Dutch baby pancake is a fabulous weekend brunch dish.

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    • E.D. Smith recipe for pumpkin pie

      E.D. Smith Pumpkin Purée

      Recipe for pumpkin pie from cans of E.D. Smith pure pumpkin purée

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    • Eggless Butterless Milkless Cake

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      A classic war-time rations cake. The dried raisins would have been replaced by whatever dried fruit could be had.

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    • Empire Plum Pudding Recipe

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      This recipe drew on ingredients from various parts of the British Empire: the flour from Canada, the brown sugar from Barbados, the orange (originally a Jaffa orange) from Palestine, dried and candied fruits from South Africa. Hence its name.

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    • Florentines Recipe

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      These look gorgeous and people will think you slaved for hours, but they are dead easy.

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    • Frozen Lime Pie Recipe

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      If you want a fancy presentation, you can put this in one of those loose-bottomed pie / quiche pans whose bottom pops out. Otherwise, use whatever type of pie dish you have to hand, preferably a 9 inch / 23cm round pie tin.

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    • Ginger and Rhubarb Fool Recipe

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      These fools are very easy to make, with a great refreshing taste. They are also a healthy dessert, with the fruit, the ginger and the yoghurt.

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    • Guinness Cake Recipe

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      The upside of this cake is that it’s a make-ahead cake. That’s also the downside — don’t plan on serving it a few hours from now.

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    • Hermit Cookies Recipe

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      These are classic North American drop cookies.

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    • Iced Marmalade Loaf Recipe

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      Marmalade lovers will make this disappear in an instant.

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    • Jam Pie Recipe

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      This is an ideal way to use up end bits of jam left in jam jars or pots.

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    • Jam Topped Sponge Puddings Recipe

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      This is a really easy dessert! Use whatever jam you like, or use marmalade. Lovely served with cream or custard.

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    • Jammy Muffin Doughnuts Recipe

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      Very nice while still warm. Use whatever kind of jam you fancy.

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    • Lemon & Maple Jasmine Rice Pudding Recipe

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      A rich rice pudding, whose taste is lightened by the addition of lemon.

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    • Lemon Pie with Marmalade Glaze Recipe

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      You can make the crust or buy it frozen and ready to cook.

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    • Lemon Posset Recipe

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      A posset is a thin, custard-like chilled dessert. This recipe for a Lemon Posset is dead easy to make.

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    • Lemon Puddle Pudding Recipe

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      A puddle of lemon sauce will form under the sponge cake part of the pudding during cooking.

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    • Lemon Rosemary Cake Recipe

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      There are very few recipes where you actually need to fuss about using fresh versus dried herbs, but this is one where the dried version of rosemary just wouldn’t do it.

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    • Lemon Squares Recipe

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      Beautiful and easy dessert squares from the mid 1900s.

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    • Libby’s recipe for pumpkin pie

      Libby's Pumpkin Pie

      Recipe for pumpkin pie from Libby’s pie tins.

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    • Libum Recipe

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      This is a Roman recipe, often pointed to as an early example of cheesecake.

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    • Manchester Pudding Recipe

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      An old recipe, this is somewhat like a sweetened, flavoured bread pudding baked in a pie shell. Adapted from Mrs Beeton.

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    • Manuellos Recipe

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      This is dead easy, and your guests will hoover these up. And, it looks stunning.

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    • Maple Icing Recipe

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      This is a butter-based icing for cakes, deriving its flavour from real maple syrup, rather than artificial maple flavouring. Very sweet, as you are adding sugar to sugar!

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    • Marlborough Pudding Recipe

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      Marlborough Pudding is a classic, old English dessert that came over to America with the colonists.

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    • Marmalade Brownies

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      The chocolate and marmalade tastes together are fantastic.

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    • Marmalade Pie Recipe

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      The thicker cut your marmalade is, the better for this recipe.

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    • Marmalade Pudding Recipe

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      Nice with a pouring custard, or a spooning cream such as extra-thick double cream.

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    • Marzipan Recipe

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      A classic Marzipan recipe.

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    • Mock Marzipan Recipe

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      For those with nut allergies, you can use another flavouring such as orange or rosewater, if you wish.

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    • Orange à la Norvegienne Recipe

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      A classic but still impressive recipe.

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    • Orange Pudding with Sauce Recipe

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      A gorgeous, drop-dead easy dessert made possible by the modern miracle of the microwave. You will only dirty two dishes in making this dessert, plus 1 spoon and whatever you zested the orange with.

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    • Osgood Pie Recipe

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      This recipe used to be an American favourite at Thanksgiving.

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    • Pan di Spagna Recipe

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      A classic sponge cake that despite its spagna name is actually Italian. The only leavener it uses is the good old-fashioned get as much air into it as you can method.

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    • Parkin Cake Recipe

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      This cake is traditionally made a day or two ahead of Guy Fawke’s Night, then served on the night at the bonfire gathering.

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    • Pasta Frolla Recipe

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      This is the Italian version of shortcrust pastry, or the French Pâte Sucrée.

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    • Pastry Dough (Gluten Free) Recipe

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      A gluten free pastry recipe.

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    • Pesachticky Jam Recipe

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      No one will guess this is made from beets. They break down completely, and the jam comes out a treacly brown.

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    • PET No-Bake Festive Fruitcake Recipe

      This is a classic, famous, no-bake Christmas fruitcake recipe, dating back to at least 1954.

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    • Pie Crust Recipe

      Pie crust

      This is a standard recipe for pie crust (aka shortcrust pastry), as was taught for decades in home economics classrooms.

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    • Plum Cake Recipe

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      A lovely, moist plum cake.

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    • Polenta with Raisins and Maple Syrup Recipe

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      This recipe is for 1 serving, but is easily multiplied. It makes a very quick and simple but delicious and satisfying pudding.

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    • Pork Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe

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      This is a monumental recipe, both in the quantity of cookies it makes, and in the breathtaking fashion with which it calls for sugar, lard, and meat, of all things.

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    • Potato Chip Cookies Recipe

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      With a name like this, who is going to be able to resist trying them?

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    • Puff Pastry (Quick) Recipe

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      Use as a topping for meat or fruit pies, sausage rolls, etc, where you want a flaky crust but don’t need the rise. Don’t use this in recipes where the pastry needs to really rise, such as vol-au-vents, etc.

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    • Pumpkin and Mincemeat Pie

      Pumpkin and Mincemeat Pie

      This is a luxurious combination of two of the best tastes from two favourite holidays, Thanksgiving and Christmas. The smoothness of the pumpkin custard acts as the perfect foil to the richness of the mincemeat.

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    • Pumpkin Pie (Light)

      Pumpkin Pie (Light)

      This pumpkin pie has the classic pumpkin pie taste that everyone loves, but it’s lost a boatload of calories so you can indulge in it without giving it a second thought. As an added bonus, this pie is quick to assemble, and though it takes an hour to bake, none of that time needs your Go to recipe

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    • Pumpkin Spice Cookies Recipe

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      If you’re pumpkin pie-d out and still have some pumpkin to use up, try these, they are very good.

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    • Queen Elizabeth Cake Recipe

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      Dead easy! Some people say to make this cake a day or two in advance before serving.

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    • Queen of Hearts Bread Pudding Recipe

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      One of the classic bread pudding recipes. It’s amazing how light this dessert tastes.

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    • Quick Trailer Park Birthday Cake Recipe

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      Especially useful for those times when you’re caught off guard by someone in the park having a birthday. Just whip this together, give your double-wide a once-through for a quick tidy, and you’re ready to rock!

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    • Raisin Puff Recipe

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      A good old-fashioned dessert, easy to take to group events. You only dirty a bowl and a saucepan in preparing it.

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    • Raspberry Squares Recipe

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      A recipe for classic practical dessert squares — easy to make, not too expensive, easy to transport, yet still a crowd-pleaser.

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    • Red Berry Clafoutis Recipe

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      Use red berries such as raspberries, strawberries, red currants, etc. Come to think of it, there’s actually no reason the berries have to be red, but a mixture of at least two is nice.

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    • Rhubarb Bread & Butter Pudding Recipe

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      The rhubarb cuts nicely through the custard richness of this pudding.

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    • Ricotta Cheese Flan Recipe

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      This recipe uses a food processor to speed things along. You can make it manually instead if you need to.

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    • Roman Apple-Berry Tart Recipe

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      The Romans called this type of pie a crostata. The Romans did not have nice round pie tins like we do, so they had to turn up the edges of their dough to make a free form tart.

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    • Roman Honey Cakes Recipe

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      If ever you were itching for a chance to use spelt flour, here you go. It’s more authentic in this recipe: it’s what the Romans would have used.

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    • Rum & Raisin Rice Pudding Recipe

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      Delicious rice pudding with classic flavours; very little work.

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    • Shaker Applesauce Cake with Rosewater Frosting

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      Dead easy, but watch it fly off the plate. The shakers used rosewater, but you could substitute vanilla extract.

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    • Shoofly Pie Recipe

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      Despite all the molasses, this pie is rich, rather than overly sweet.

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    • Shrewsbury Biscuits Recipe

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      Classic English cookies.

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    • Soul Cakes Recipe

      Soul cakes

      Soul Cakes are a traditional English dessert that makes its appearance on All Soul’s Day. Though the English refer to them as (small) cakes, North Americans would likely say cookies.

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    • Steamed Apple Pudding Cake Recipe

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      If you haven’t made a steamed pudding before, we have simple guidelines!

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    • Steamed Apple Pudding Recipe

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      If you haven’t made a steamed pudding before, we have simple guidelines!

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    • Sticky Maple Toffee Pudding (light)

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      A lower-fat but still yummy version of an English classic dessert.

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    • Sticky Sponge Pudding Recipe

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      If you haven’t made a steamed pudding before, we have simple guidelines!

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    • Strawberry and Almond Squares Recipe

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      Lovely squares that aren’t too expensive to make.

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    • Summer Pudding

      Summer Pudding

      The classic English summer dessert. The simplicity of the ingredients is deceptive; the tastes of this are very sophisticated.

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    • Sweet Potato and Cranberry Nutbread Recipe

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      Good to have on hand for guests. Keep it wrapped in tin foil or plastic wrap.

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    • Toffeed Pear Cake Recipe

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      Even those who are sometimes leery of pears owing to their texture will love this cake.

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    • Treacle Tart Recipe

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      A very morish, inexpensive dessert to make.

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    • Vanilla Mascarpone Fudge Recipe

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      If you have a sweet tooth, this is at the top of the list for fudges. You may want some strong coffee to wash this down with.

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    • Victoria Sponge Cake

      Victoria Sponge Cake

      A classic English cake.

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    • Walnut Pie Recipe

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      You’ll never find a simpler pie to make — or a harder one to keep people’s hands off of until dinner time.

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    • Whipped Shortbread Recipe

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      Though not exactly actually whipped, whipped shortbread cookies are much lighter than regular shortbread, and almost melt in your mouth.

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    • Zucchini Cake Recipe

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      This is an authentic Italian recipe. It’s also a great recipe for late summer (August) when everyone is looking for ways to use up all the zucchini and basil that is suddenly available and dirt cheap.

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