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May 7, 2021

Berry platter with sheep’s labneh and orange oil

This display of the season’s best can double up as a light dessert or as a brunch centrepiece. You can make your…

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Coffee and pandan puddings

Brilliantly fragrant, pandan leaves are used in Asian cooking to flavour all sorts of sweet and savoury dishes. Their aroma is somewhere…

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Crêpes with roasted bananas and Barbados cream

Barbados cream, introduced to us by Ixta’s aunt Rose (via Nigella Lawson), is extremely dangerous: creamy, boozy, sweet and, with the sugar…

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Max and Flynn’s lemon sorbet

Some might think this hibiscus and lemon sorbet served in a lemon is a little garish – the sorbet is such a…

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Coconut ice cream with lychee and passion fruit

This is a dessert to impress and it doesn’t even require an ice cream machine. It gets its volume and smooth texture…

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Watermelon and strawberry sorbet

This sorbet is made without an ice cream machine but it’s still remarkably smooth. You can thank the vodka and glucose for…

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Poached apricots with pistachio and amaretti mascarpone

Pesche ripiene – stuffed peaches – is a typical dessert from Piemonte, Italy. It is a lesson in simplicity, where just a…

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Tapioca fritters with orange syrup and star anise

Even if you think that you don’t like tapioca, please try these fritters. They are sweet, soft, crisp and very difficult to…

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Tangerine and ancho chilli flan

Flan is the most traditional Mexican dessert, consisting of caramel with custard set on top (or below, once flipped). The method here…

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