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40 favourite dessert recipes

From family-style puddings to fancier dinner party-worthy desserts, these recipes will satisfy every sweet tooth. Don't forget a dollop of double cream or a scoop of ice-cream.

40 recipes
Adam Liaw's healthier baked banana and pistachio splits.
EASY

Baked banana split recipe with yoghurt, ice cream and pistachios

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Neil Perry's tart lemon tart!

Lemon tart recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Chocolate souffle made by Guy Grossi at Grossi Florentino.

How to make the perfect chocolate souffle

  • Justine Costigan
Neil Perry's chocolate mousse.

Chocolate mousse recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
MOLTEN CHOCOLATE PUDDING. Jill

Molten chocolate pudding

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Butter, apples and sugar become one of the finest desserts in the world.

Jill Dupleix's tarte tatin

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
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Soft chocolate with almond prailine.

Soft chocolate with almond praline

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Frank Camorra
Three Blue Ducks' "too good to share" chocolate and walnut brownie with whisky cream.
EASY

Chocolate walnut brownie with hazelnut whisky cream

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LeBrooy
Sticky date pudding.

Sticky date pudding

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Caroline Velik
To replicate the cover, add sticky roasted rhubarb and toffee shards to the berry garnish.

How to make the ultimate pavlova

  • Jill Dupleix
Affogato
EASY

Chocolate affogato

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Neil Perry tiramisu.

Tiramisu

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Strawberry and cream crepes.

Strawberry and cream crepes

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Simple dessert: Strawberries and cream millefeuille.
EASY

Strawberries and cream millefeuille

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Tim Tam mousse.
EASY

Tim Tam mousse

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
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Hot chocolate fondant.

Hot chocolate fondant

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Frank Camorra
Dive into this white chocolate and caramel pudding.

Caramilk self-saucing pudding

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Miso caramel sundae with miso caramel popcorn and chocolate bark.

Miso caramel sundaes

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Mum's apple pie.

Mum's apple pie

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Caroline Velik
bread butter pud

Rum, raisin and chocolate bread and butter pudding

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Luke Mangan
Apple-rhubarb shortcake with double cream.

Baked rhubarb and apple shortcake with double cream

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Matt Moran's festive dessert: White chocolate panna cotta.

White chocolate panna cotta recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Matt Moran
Dark chocolate, blackberry and vanilla tart.

Dark chocolate ganache and blackberry tart

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Helen Goh's flourless chocolate orange and anise puddings.

Flourless chocolate and orange puddings

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
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cr: Bonnie Savage Styling by Lisa La Barbera Karen Martini recipe - Clafouti

Roasted rhubarb and ginger clafoutis

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Orange and Gran Marnier custard.

Orange and Grand Marnier custard

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Strawberries with set cream.

Strawberries with set cream recipe

  • Neil Perry
Cherries and butterscotch pudding.

Cherries and butterscotch pudding

  • 2 hrs +
Five ingredient apple tart.
EASY

Fine apple tart recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Crush your favourite bikkies for this crumble.
EASY

Biscuit crumble ice-cream recipe

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Rice pudding gets a tropical refresh.
EASY

Mango and passionfruit rice pudding recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Raspberry and vanilla bavarois.

Raspberry and vanilla bavarois

  • 1-2 hrs
Freestyle with different fruits in this free-form tart.

Rhubarb and strawberry galette with cream cheese pastry

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Babas

Rum babas with cream

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Jill Dupleix's two-tone chocolate swirl cheesecake.

Chocolate swirl cheesecake recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
Rachel Khoo's chocolate brownie pots with raspberry compote.

Chocolate brownie pots with raspberry compote

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Rachel Khoo
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