Raffaello tart with strawberries is another wonderful summer strawberry dessert and a beautiful treat for Mother’s Day. A crisp, buttery pastry shell is filled with a luscious coconut cream and topped with fresh strawberries and Raffaello chocolates. It’s always a crowd
This cream cheese and strawberry tart features a crisp, buttery pastry shell filled with a smooth cream cheese filling and topped with juicy fresh strawberries. Its flavour is quite different from a tart made with mascarpone, thanks to the distinctive character of Philadelphia
French strawberry tart, also known as Tarte aux Fraises, is a true summer classic. It combines a traditional French pâte sablée pastry case – buttery, delicate and slightly sandy in texture – with juicy ripe strawberries arranged over a generous layer of silky
This recipe for a cake charmingly called Glacier Cake came from one of my readers, who happens to share my name (Dorotka, thank you!). Despite its name, it isn’t an ice cream cake. Instead, it features layers of sponge biscuits, creamy custard filling, fruit jelly
Mangomisu is a fresh, tropical take on traditional tiramisu. Ladyfingers are soaked in a fragrant mixture of mango purée and orange juice, then layered with a light mango mascarpone cream and slices of fresh ripe mango. A few strawberries add extra colour
An utterly irresistible meringue roulade filled with mascarpone cream and rhubarb. Pink rhubarb looks particularly beautiful in this dessert, but if you don’t have access to it, simply use the red parts of regular rhubarb stalks and save the greener sections
Drunken Plum Cake is a layered cake filled with Nutella cream, plum preserve and, most importantly, plenty of dried prunes soaked in rum. It’s perfect for Christmas or later for New Year’s Eve celebrations! A family-sized cake that’s ideal for sharing, served as neat
Cranberry cupcakes with white chocolate frosting are a delightful combination of tart and sweet flavours in one little cupcake :). Before you begin, remember that the white chocolate frosting needs to be prepared the day before so that it can simply be whipped the next day.
A flawless no-bake cake with a whipped cream, coconut filling and blackcurrant jam. This festive coconut zebra cake with blackcurrant jam stands out on the Christmas table with its beautiful colours. Everyone loves it, and it looks as though it is covered in
Raffaello cake is a wonderfully delicious no-bake coconut custard dessert layered with crackers and a creamy coconut filling. It’s quick to prepare, utterly irresistible and admittedly a little controversial – combining salty crackers with a sweet coconut custard cream
A double chocolate Pavlova means double the joy :). This smaller Pavlova is made with just four egg whites and features a crisp shell with a soft, marshmallow-like centre. It’s topped with Nutella cream, drizzled with chocolate sauce and finished with Maltesers.
A fantastic recipe for classic vanilla slice (Polish napoleonka), made using ready-made all-butter puff pastry that simply needs baking. The secret to a truly exceptional Napoleonka lies in perfectly baked, buttery pastry and a silky vanilla cream prepared with milk
This tiramisu Swiss roll tastes exactly like the famous Italian dessert—the only difference is the way it is served! 😉 A light coffee sponge roll filled with a creamy mascarpone and whipped cream filling. Not overly sweet, delicately coffee-flavoured
This no-bake toffee cracker cake is exceptionally delicate, perfectly balanced in sweetness and utterly irresistible. Three luscious layers — vanilla custard cream, toffee cream and whipped cream — are sandwiched between salted crackers and finished with
A simple yet delicious no-bake Lotus Biscoff cake. It’s made with layers of Biscoff biscuits, a creamy mascarpone filling enriched with Biscoff spread, a layer of blackcurrant jam to balance the sweetness, and finished with a silky Biscoff topping. It’s incredibly
A truly irresistible banana tart. Bananas paired with homemade vanilla custard, whipped cream and salted caramel sauce, all on a perfectly crisp shortcrust pastry base. Pure heaven! Loved by both adults and children.
When the temperature dropped by a few degrees, I baked a few shortcrust tart shells in advance – so during the heatwave I can avoid the oven and simply fill them with creams and fruit. These bases freeze beautifully, making them perfect for quick desserts
This “Captain’s Cake” – or rather what I like to call a brilliant cake after it became such a hit at home 😉 – is reminiscent of tiramisu in many ways. It’s wonderfully creamy, chocolatey and coffee-infused, layered with sponge fingers, enriched with plenty of