44 of our fastest dessert recipes to try right now (2024)

Don’t let the fact that it’s last minute get in the way of something sweet tonight. Some desserts are ready in minutes, others need a little bit of prep to ensure you’ll have tasty sweet treats on standby all week long.

Brown bread ice cream with marmalade pudding

Matt Preston is bringing back 'brinner' with this breakfast for dinner marvel.

Mango Eton mess trifles

You'll go mad for these mango Eton mess trifles!

Ready-bake chocolate cookie ice cream sandwiches

"This dough is perfect to have in the freezer. Slice off as many biscuits as you need and bake them fresh. They also make a quick dessert with ice cream between." – Valli Little

Choc top and popcorn sundae

Two of our all-time favourite movie snacks, choc tops and popcorn, rolled into one dessert? Sounds good to us!

Grilled strawberries and cream with pepper and basil

‘Wow’ is all I could say last summer in London when I tried grilled strawberries with clotted cream ice cream with a jug of Pimm’s on the side. I promise this will be your go-to dessert until the weather turns, says chef Matt Wilkinson.

Tropical fruit salad with paw paw granita

This is anything but your average fruit salad.

Lemon meringue marshmallow sundaes

We take a blowtorch to the age-old classic combination of lemon and meringue, with some tasty results.

Grilled stone fruit with mascarpone and panettone

Make the most of the beautiful, seasonal stone fruit on offer at the moment with this easy but tasty dessert. Recipe by Andy Emerson and Mitch Orr from ACME restaurant.

Choc ganache bowls with lychees and macadamia

For a simple but completely rewarding dessert, you can't go passed these choc ganache bowls. We won't tell how easy they are to make if you don't.

Summer fruit sorbet

A refreshing and light fruit sorbet that tastes of summer with every bite.

Strawberry Eton mess with frosé granita

Frosé, aka frozen rosé wine, is the drink of the moment. Here, it adds a boozy and refreshing ‘kick’ to granita.

Chocolate almond cups

The healthy chocolate treat thats also vegan friendly, dairy free and refined sugar free!

Beat the heatwave with these cooling tiramisu popsicles

This Italian classic dessert gets a fro-yo makeover.

Four-ingredient mango and blackberry fro-yo

It's hard to believe you only need four ingredients to create something this good.

Cheat's mille-feuille

For a quick dessert or afternoon tea treat, try this mille-feulle.

Peaches and raspberries mascarpone fool

“If you’re a fool for love, you’ll adore this,” says Silvia Colloca. Nothing says romance quite like this easy, quick dessert just for two.

Berries with white chocolate sauce and speculaas crumbs

This speedy berry and white chocolate dessert can be ready to go in minutes. Speculaas are spiced biscuits from gourmet stores, but any ginger biscuits will work.

Oreo and peanut butter pie

One slice of this salty-sweet tart won't be enough.

Self-saucing chocolate pudding

Delicious and indulgent, this self-saucing chocolate pudding will be your new favourite recipe.

Marsala panettone bread and butter pudding

As if bread and butter pudding wasn’t decadent enough, we've added sweet Marsala and buttery panettone to create the best version ever.

Cherry and almond crumble

A rustic flavour-filled dessert perfect for the cooler months.

Deep-fried Nutella jaffle ice cream sandwich

Hot, cold, smooth, crunchy, sweet, salty, beautiful and messy. You need this.

Relive your childhood with these deep-fried ice creams

We created this dessert to honour the great Scottish food tradition of deep-frying anything and everything. People’s uniformly happy reactions are proof that sometimes the simple things in life are the best… deep-fried!We use toffee and vanilla-flavoured ice creams that are coated in crushed honeycomb biscuits and sold impaled on a wooden popsicle-stick. If you can’t find anything similar, ice-cream sandwich bars work well, as long as they are not choc-coated.This recipe an extract from James Wirth's cookbook, This could get messy: A guide to eating. To drinking. To doing both at the same time.

Apple, berry and port crumble

Homemade apple crumble gets a twist with the added richness of sweet port wine.

Quick peach tarts with pink peppercorn ice cream

Pink peppercorns give the ice cream a slightly floral, spicy flavour.

Affogato

Strictly for adults - this decadent coffee dessert combines cold ice-cream with hot, strong coffee and Italian liqueur.

Crespelle (crepes) with sweet ricotta and amarena cherries

This magnificent Italian version of crepes showcases the beauty of amarena cherries.

Butterscotch sauce with burnt-butter bananas and ice cream

This deliciously gooey and moreish dessert shows just how versatile butter and bananas can be.

Quick brioche and apple tarts

44 of our fastest dessert recipes to try right now (2024)

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