Classic Tiramisu
The Venetian classic, built on a properly cooked zabaglione so it sets firm without gelatine and carries no raw-egg…
Enriching a sauce, or the whole dessert. 500 recipes on the site call for cream.
Cream is in 500 recipes from 39 cuisines, among them 174 desserts, 157 dinners, 47 bakes and 43 lunches. The cuisines that use it most here are American (155), French (77), British (68) and Italian (46). Of these, 79 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are White Russian (3 min), Brandy Alexander (5 min) and Chantilly (5 min). For 232, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 266 easy, 204 medium and 30 hard.
As written, 292 are vegetarian and 151 gluten-free. Another 23 meet a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.
The Venetian classic, built on a properly cooked zabaglione so it sets firm without gelatine and carries no raw-egg…
Charred yogurt-marinated chicken folded into a silky, gently spiced tomato-cream sauce — the most ordered curry in…
Delhi's murgh makhani: tandoori chicken finished in a sauce of tomatoes, butter and cream, balanced with a whisper…
Dense, tall and creamy with a faint tang, on a buttery biscuit base. The water bath and a slow cool in the…
Individual chocolate cakes with a liquid centre, from oven to table in twenty minutes. The whole trick is pulling…
A vanilla custard so smooth it barely holds a spoon, under a sheet of caramel thin enough to crack with a tap. The…
Black urad lentils and kidney beans soaked overnight, simmered for hours, then finished with butter and cream until…
A light sponge soaked in three milks until it is completely saturated yet somehow not soggy, topped with softly…
Thick brioche soaked long enough to reach the centre, cooked slowly so the custard sets rather than scrambles. It is…
Three eggs, butter, and about ninety seconds. The French rolled style has no colour at all and a barely-set centre…
Chicken and vegetables in a velvety sauce under an all-butter pastry lid that shatters when you break through it…
The mildest of the great Mughlai curries and the most technically demanding: chicken in a pale, fragrant sauce built…
Ridged, crackling churros dusted in cinnamon sugar with a pot of dark chocolate for dipping. The dough is a simple…
Light vanilla cupcakes with a flat-ish top for frosting, made by the reverse-creaming method that coats the flour in…
Cubes of golden-fried paneer suspended in a vividly green spinach gravy. The trick to that colour is blanching and…
A silky custard pie with proper spice and a blind-baked base that stays crisp. Cooking the purée down first…
Small, tender meatballs in a creamy pan gravy, served with lingonberry jam and mashed potato. The bread-and-cream…
Proper Italian gelato: less fat, less air and served warmer than ice cream, which is why it tastes so much more…
The Parisian macaron, with smooth domed shells, ruffled feet and a chewy centre. This uses the more forgiving French…
A meringue with a crisp shell and a soft marshmallow middle, baked low, cooled slowly in the oven, and topped with…
A dark, date-sweetened sponge drenched in toffee sauce and served with cream. Blitzing the dates into a purée is…
The original quiche has no cheese in it, and once you taste this custard — barely set, heavy on cream, studded with…
Two golden sponge layers with jam and cream between, dusted with caster sugar. Named for a queen who took it with…
Waxy potatoes simmered in garlicky cream and baked until the top is bronzed and the layers have fused into something…
Roasting the tomatoes first concentrates them into something far deeper than a stovetop soup, and a splash of cream…
Sharp, silky lime custard in a buttery graham crust, set by nothing but the chemical reaction between lime juice and…
Choux buns filled with cold vanilla cream and drowned in hot dark chocolate sauce. The temperature contrast is the…
Soft scrambled eggs, crisp potatoes, sausage and cheese rolled tight in a griddled tortilla. Built properly it holds…
Real chocolate melted into milk and cream until it is thick enough to coat a spoon — closer to a drinking ganache…
Mussels steamed open in white wine, shallots and parsley in under ten minutes. The broth they release is the sauce…
Crushed meringue, whipped cream and macerated strawberries folded together fifteen minutes before serving. Reputedly…
Chocolate sponge soaked in kirsch, layered with sour cherries and unsweetened whipped cream, finished with chocolate…
A Savoyard mountain bake of potatoes, lardons and onions buried under a whole halved Reblochon, which melts down…
Apples caramelised in butter and sugar directly in the pan, covered with pastry and baked, then flipped to reveal a…
Not a pie at all — two layers of sponge with vanilla pastry cream between them and a chocolate glaze poured over the…
A proper white chowder — thickened with potato starch and a light roux rather than a bucket of cream — with sweet…
Paneer and potato dumplings, deep fried until golden, resting in a rich cashew and tomato gravy. The centrepiece of…
Sponge soaked in sherry, a layer of fruit, proper custard set over the top and a thick raft of whipped cream. Built…
Paneer in a pale, fragrant gravy of cashews, cream and melon seeds, scented with cardamom and rose. Mughlai cooking…
A vanilla panna cotta set at the exact edge of collapse, so it wobbles under a spoon and melts on the tongue. Five…
A Limousin dessert somewhere between a flan and a pancake: cherries dropped into a loose batter and baked until it…
Buttered bread layered with raisins, soaked in vanilla custard and baked until the peaks are crisp and the middle is…
Crisp choux shells, split and piped full of vanilla crème pâtissière, capped with a dark chocolate glaze that sets…
Squares of day-old butter sponge dipped in thin chocolate icing and rolled in desiccated coconut, sometimes split…
Small pots of dark chocolate custard, baked in a bain-marie until barely set and eaten cold with a spoon. Three…
Haggis baked in its skin, served with mashed swede and mashed potato and a whisky cream sauce poured over the lot.
Small yeasted buckwheat pancakes, thicker and more savoury than a crêpe, served warm with soured cream and whatever…
France's great white stew: veal poached with aromatics, the broth turned into a velouté enriched with cream and egg…