Type: Desserts

September 3, 2026

Lime and yuzu cream with sesame brittle

For anyone who knows and loves the sweet and salty cheesecake from Simple, consider this the sequel. It’s sweet and salty –…

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Brown sugar cake with brown sugar cream

An ingredient can easily sit in the pantry forever, before we suddenly rediscover it and see it in a new light. Here…

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Sumac roasted strawberries

Any sumac strawberry fans will recognise this as a play on the recipe that features in Simple. Using dark brown soft sugar…

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Ma’amoul bars

These are a simplified take on the Arabic cookie, ma’amoul. They are easier to make but deliver in abundance with their sweetly…

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Ginger peach puffs

Verena is the test kitchen’s in-house baking queen and few things bring her greater joy than baking with fruit. Apart from when…

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Blueberry and orange clafoutis

The name clafoutis may sound fancy but, in truth, this is simply an easy baked custard, tasting like a cross between custard…

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Double chocolate shortbreads (with chilli or without)

Yotam talks about barriers to cooking (see p. 6) and our desire to draw more people in, on their terms, demystifying certain…

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Baked rice pudding with blackberries and lemon

There are two kinds of beauty to baked rice pudding: the beauty of the crust that forms on top, looking like a…

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Bananas in pyjamas

An irresistible name, but it’s the flavour that makes these baked bananas so tempting. They are actually very similar to a shake…

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