After the main event on Christmas Day, keep the show rolling on with one of these stunning Christmas dessert recipes. From a boozy trifle to a cool frozen treat or a pavlova crowned with summer fruit, there’s only one rule for the holiday season: make it a showstopper.
If you’ve been tasked with Christmas dessert this year, you’ll no doubt want to impress even the fussiest of relatives with your holiday desserts. So, we bring you everything from easy Christmas desserts to make ahead of time to a theatrical croquembouche for an edible Christmas tree-fashioned treat that delivers that extra wow factor.
We also have popular Christmas desserts galore – think Yule log cakes, pavlova wreaths, Christmas cookies, mince pies and mince tarts, delicious eggnog tarts, and Christmas puddings.
Turn to these Christmas dessert ideas, and you can’t go wrong.
Here are our best recipes for Christmas desserts.
Coconut and cherry frangipane tart from AP Bakery
Cardamom-pistachio pavlova with rose cream
AP Bakery’s buckwheat ginger biscuits for Christmas
Vincotto berry and amaretto cream trifles
AP Bakery’s mango macadamia merveilleux with Dulcey cream
Peach pavlova trifle with brandy custard
Dairy-free honey and macadamia tart with figs and blackberries
Lauren Eldridge’s apricot, honey, coffee and macadamia trifle
Mango, macadamia and spiced white chocolate pavlova wreath
Pistachio and rose roulade with lychees and raspberries
Sparkling shiraz jelly with almond granita
Damien Pignolet’s guide to making gâteau Saint-Honoré
Jaclyn Koludrovic’s gluten-free pistachio, lime and coconut cream cake with melon, apple and mint
Lauren Eldridge’s brunkager (spiced Danish gingerbread biscuits)
Lorraine Godsmark’s peachy panettone with cassata ice-cream
Lauren Eldridge’s Christmas fruit pudding frozen nougatine
Golden mango and passionfruit caramel tart
Black Star Pastry’s strawberry and watermelon cake
Flour & Stone’s stollen with sour cherries
White Christmas with sour cherries, almonds and Grand Marnier
Lauren Eldridge’s no-churn passionfruit ice-cream with lime sherbet and blackberries
A pâtissière’s guide to making Black Forest cake
Flour and Stone’s Italian Christmas cake
Lauren Eldridge’s white chocolate and pistachio profiterole wreath
Christmas pudding recipes
Christmas ice-cream cake with festive crumb
White chocolate, raspeberry and pistachio semifreddo
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