From Ferrero Rocher brownies to espresso martini layer cakes, these are the recipes that take the best of both worlds – combining dessert with booze, chocolate bars or coffee – to bring you something truly unique. Fire up your ovens, get cracking and indulge this weekend – these are the desserts that dreams are made of.
After our original gin and tonic tart went viral last year, food editor Warren Mendes decided it was time to update the old recipe. Here, he's kept the classic flavour combinations of gin and tonic and added candied citrus for a true showstopper.
Everyone’s favourite chocolate treat just got a whole lot better, incorporated into these delicious skillet brownies that are dangerously irresistible. You’ll need 4 x 8cm, 200ml-capacity skillets or 4 x 200ml ramekins for this recipe.
This Mediterranean-inspired dessert signals easy entertaining and adds the final touch to a long, laid-back alfresco lunch.
This beauty celebrates figs in all their glory, with a short pastry base and a rich brown-butter frangipane laced with honey and lemon zest. It’s all perfectly finished with a tart lemon syrup drizzled over the figs. You’ll need a 26cm fluted loose-based tart pan for this recipe.
Join in on the doughnut craze with these moreish doughnuts that have the added kicked of a salted chocolate glaze. The hardest part will be trying to stop after your second one.
Take your cheesecake game to the next level with this espresso-spiked version that's the perfect pick-me-up at any time of the day.
Warren Mendes takes an all-time favourite cocktail – the espresso martini – and turns it into a show-stopping crowd-pleaser.
Decadent, rich and ready for a celebration - this cake is the ultimate showstopper. We've taken everything you love about the classic and upped the ante, including a Swiss meringue buttercream icing and a panna cotta filling. This one really is the cherry on the cake.
It's the ultimate in dessert decadence. Tempt your guests with this indulgent Nutella cheesecake with chocolate mirror glaze.
Take a lazy Sunday breakfast and pair it with rich banoffee cheesecake, and voila: the banoffle is born.
Need we say more?
The cake that's so good it should be illegal.
Give your oven a rest this weekend thanks to this decadent and dramatic cheesecake.
Check out Phoebe Wood's take on the classic bonfire dessert of melted marshmallows, chocolate and cookies.
Combining the flavours of an apple pie and a dessert favourite, creme caramel these cakes are the perfect ending to a dinner party.
