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Christmas dessert recipes
Sugar, spice and all things nice: Christmas is the perfect time to serve up a decadent dessert. Try our recipes for trifles, tarts, pavlovas and more – and add ingredients to your trolley from many of our recipe pages. If you just can't wait, shop ready-made desserts here.
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Easy peeler clementine trifles
Chocolate hazelnut bûche de Noël
Mulled cranberry & orange jellies
Campfire sticky toffee pudding
Chocolate & cranberry torte
The best sweet grazing board
Tropical Christmas cake
Oranges in caramel
Upside-down mincemeat & apple pudding
Hazelnut, coffee & chocolate meringue
Christmas cranberry sorbet
Raspberry & limoncello trifle
The best chocolate bark
Quick classic mince pies
Peppermint candy cane cake
Simple individual Christmas pudding trifles
Ginger loaf cake with coconut
Mincemeat frangipane tart
No-churn Baileys & Christmas pudding ice cream
Chocolate date cake
Edd Kimber's chocolate orange trifle
Cranberry & amaretti semifreddo
Clementine granita
Pistachio tiramisu with boozy cherries
Grilled chocolate, marzipan, orange & ricotta panettone sandwiches
No-bake chocolate Christmas cake
White forest blondies
Chocolate & orange marmalade Viennese biscuits
Pressure cooker Christmas pudding
Pomegranate possets
Sri Lankan pavlova with passion fruit & mango
Festive Pavlova
Mince pies
Chocolate yule log
Benjamina Ebuehi's cardamom crumble mince pies
Homemade mince pies
Ginger & white chocolate with nutty ginger tuiles
Velvety chocolate tart
Chocolate & brandy mousse with Lotus biscuit crumbs
Sticky ginger & date pudding
Raspberry, cranberry & white chocolate trifle
Nutty salt & pepper chocolate squares
Chocolate chestnut tarts
Cranberry, orange and juniper trifle
Christmas sticky toffee pudding
Rahul Mandal's breakfast mince pies
Black Forest semifreddo
Sparkling cranberry jelly
Classic Christmas pudding
Struffoli wreath
Bûche de Noël
Chocolate clementine Bundt cake
Cranberry, hazelnut and sherry tart
Festive spiced latte cake