Dessert recipes

Orange and Apple Salad

Fresh apple-and-orange slices dressed with powdered sugar and three liqueurs.

Orange and Banana Cake

Mashed banana joins peeled orange and lemon in a rich vanilla batter. This fruit-heavy cake is spread in a shallow tin, baked until set at the centre and rested before serving warm.

• 100 min

Orange and Honey Oat Cake

Orange and lemon flesh with their juice hydrate rolled oats in this dense honey cake. The quick-cooking flakes rest in the fruit mixture, then flour is folded in and the batter is baked in a broad tin.

• 105 min

Orange and Lime Cardamom Cake

Peeled lime and orange flesh form a very moist, low cardamom bake with milk. The fruit juice stays in the mixture, which is cooked through in a shallow tin and served after resting.

• 100 min

Orange and Lychee Pistachio Cake

Orange flesh, lychees and pistachios fill a substantial oat cake. The quick-cooking flakes rest with the fruit and yoghurt before flour is added, then the bake cools in its tin for easier portioning.

• 105 min

Pale Pumpkin and Almond Cake Diamonds

Grated pumpkin squeezed dry and cooked in milk, combined with almonds and eggs and baked gently over a thin plain pastry base.

• 270 min

Pale Ricotta and Almond Cake Diamonds

A delicate pale ricotta and almond cake baked gently over a thin water-and-flour pastry base, then chilled and cut into diamonds.

• 240 min

Pancakes au Chocolat

Thin French pancakes served with warm chocolate sauce.

Pancakes with Chocolate

Thin French pancakes served with warm chocolate sauce.

Paradise Ice Cream

Rice custard ice cream with orange-flower water and rum.

Parisienne Frozen Custard Cups

Frozen vanilla custard cups with candied chestnuts, cherries and kirsch.

Pasta Margherita Lemon Sponge

A light round sponge made with potato starch and lemon juice, cooled before a vanilla-sugar finish.

• 180 min

Peach Crumble with Cocoa and Oats

Juicy peach pieces bake beneath a dark cocoa and oat crumble. Spoon the warm dessert from its baking dish after a short rest.

• 80 min

Peach Ice Cream

Creamy peach ice cream made by folding sieved preserved peaches into a vanilla custard before churning.

Peach Pie

A covered peach pie with buttery pastry and a sweet peach filling.

Peach Shortcake

A tender shortcake filled with fresh peaches and a little maraschino.

Peach Sorbet

Ripe peach sorbet with lemon, strained for a smooth texture.

• 420 min

Peach and Cherry Almond Dessert

Peach and cherries are baked with almonds and quick-cooking oats in a dense vanilla dessert. Both fruits are stoned and diced, and the oat mixture rests briefly before flour is added.

• 100 min

Peach and Lemon Cake with Mint

Peach, peeled lemon flesh and sliced mint fill a moist vanilla cake. Baking powder is folded in with the flour, and the shallow bake is served after a rest in its tin.

• 100 min

Peach and Raisin Bread Puddings

Individual peach, raisin and bread puddings served warm with the book's separate hot rum sauce.

• 65 min

Peach, Almond and Coffee Skillet Cake

Peach wedges sit on an almond and oat cake baked in a skillet. Brewed coffee flavours the batter, and the warm cake is served straight from the pan.

• 100 min

Peaches and Cream

Canned peaches with their juice, served with cold cream and icing sugar.

Peaches, Chantilly

Maraschino-scented peach halves arranged around a mound of vanilla whipped cream.

Peanut and Mango Orange Cake

Chopped peanuts, mango dice and peeled orange flesh are baked in a shallow cake. The fruits are prepared before mixing, and baking powder is dispersed through the flour before the batter goes into the tin.

• 95 min