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. 135 recipes on the site call for cream.
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 simmered overnight, then finished with butter and cream until the dal is almost…
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…
Mashed potato beaten with buttery kale or cabbage and spring onions, with a well of melted butter in the middle of…
Sponge, raspberry jam, pastry cream and a great dome of whipped cream, all wrapped in a sheet of green marzipan with…
Porto's sandwich: steak, sausage and ham between bread, wrapped in melted cheese and flooded with a beer and tomato…
A thick, savoury cheese sauce spiked with mustard, ale and Worcestershire, spread on toast and grilled until…
A sticky apricot jam sponge with a hot cream and butter sauce poured over it the moment it leaves the oven, so it…
Toasted oats, whisky, honey, cream and raspberries layered in a glass. Assembled in ten minutes and traditionally…
Finnish salmon soup: potatoes and leek in a light stock, cream stirred in, salmon poached off the heat, and dill…
Scallops poached in wine, folded into a mushroom velouté, piped back into their shells under Gruyère and browned. A…
Smoked haddock, potato and onion in a thick milk soup from the Moray coast. Four ingredients, and all of them have…
Bogotá chicken and potato soup, thickened by three kinds of potato breaking down at different rates, with guascas…
Beef sirloin larded with bacon and pot-roasted on a bed of root vegetables, the whole lot blended into a thick cream…
Prawns folded into dill mayonnaise with a squeeze of lemon, piled on a round of butter-fried bread and topped with…
A set milk pudding perfumed with rose water, poured into glasses and topped with red syrup, coconut and crushed…
Salmon and white fish poached at the last minute in a creamy soup built on fish stock, root vegetables and a splash…
Thin, crisp waffle cones pressed in a patterned iron and rolled around a wooden cone while still hot. Filled with…
Eggs scrambled slowly over low heat until barely set, with smoked salmon folded in off the heat and plenty of dill —…
Alsatian tarte flambée: a cracker-thin base with no yeast, spread with crème fraîche and covered with onion and…
The birthday cake standard: three dark, tender layers made with cocoa bloomed in boiling coffee, under a silky…
A sour cream bundt with a fine, damp crumb and a lemon glaze that sets to a thin shell. The tin does the decorating…
The tarta de queso from La Viña in San Sebastián: no base, no water bath, and a deliberately scorched top over a…
The American coffee cake, which contains no coffee: a sour cream crumb cake with a thick cinnamon streusel on top…
Seared chicken over fettuccine in a sauce built from butter, cream and a great deal of real Parmigiano, emulsified…
The pink sauce, done properly: tomato purée cooked hard until it darkens, vodka to carry the aromatics, and cream…
Thick, orange and unapologetic, with half the broccoli blended into the base and half left in pieces. The cheese…
The shells are the recipe. They are roasted, simmered into a stock, and that stock is reduced hard before any cream…
Eggs started on the hob and finished under a grill, with the vegetables cooked properly first so they do not water…
Floury potatoes, a ricer, and butter before milk. The order matters more than the quantities, and it is the reason…
The Thanksgiving standard rebuilt from ingredients rather than tins: a real mushroom velouté, blanched beans that…
The steakhouse side: spinach wrung dry, folded into a nutmeg-scented béchamel and finished with Parmigiano…
Four ingredients and no gelatine: melted chocolate, egg yolks, whipped whites and a little cream. The air is all…
Layers of vanilla wafers, sliced banana and a real cooked custard, left overnight so the biscuits soften into cake…
Sweet, craggy biscuits rather than sponge, split while warm and piled with macerated strawberries and barely-whipped…
Milk infused with onion, clove and bay, then thickened with nothing but breadcrumbs. Older than gravy, better than…
A rolled chocolate sponge filled with cream, coated in ganache and dragged with a fork into bark. The sponge is…
A cooked custard base rather than raw eggs, spiked and chilled overnight. Thick enough to coat a spoon and nothing…
Hot sweetened coffee under a float of cream so lightly whipped it pours. The drink is taken through the cream…
Cooked in a bain-marie so they set like custard rather than scrambling into rubber. Twelve of them, and they reheat…
Belgian mash with vegetables crushed through it rather than blended in, so it stays coarse and flecked. A side dish…
Lebanese nights: a semolina layer, a thick cream layer, syrup and nuts. Assembled in a dish and cut into squares…
Little pancakes cooked on one side only, folded round thick cream and left open at one end so the pistachio shows…
A stretchy semolina and cheese dough rolled around cream and soaked in syrup. Somewhere between a pastry and a sweet…
Filo fingers filled with thick cream, fried and dropped straight into cold syrup. The name means "the lady's upper…
Torn pastry baked in sweetened milk with nuts and coconut until the top blisters and the bottom turns to custard…
Shredded kunafa pastry baked crisp and layered with cream and fresh mango. A modern Cairo dessert, everywhere since…
Leek and potato soup enriched with cream and served cold. Invented in New York by a French chef, which the French…
The hot original that vichyssoise is a chilled version of: leeks, potatoes, water and butter. Julia Child called it…
Lamb kidneys seared hard and finished in a mustard cream sauce. Fifteen minutes, and the kidneys must leave the pan…
Pike beaten with choux paste into weightless dumplings, poached and baked in a crayfish sauce. Lyon, and one of the…
Puff pastry cases filled with chicken, sweetbreads and mushrooms in a cream sauce. Named for Queen Marie…
Mussels steamed open in white wine with shallots, and chips fried twice. The mussel liquor is the sauce and should…
Sole poached in cider and cream with mussels and prawns. Normandy, so cider and cream rather than wine and butter.
Potato purée beaten with fresh tomme until it becomes elastic enough to lift in ropes. From the Aubrac, and the…
Courgettes cooked down with rice and bound with egg and cheese, from Provence. The rice is cooked in the courgette…
Alsatian flatbread with fromage blanc, onion and bacon, baked in two minutes at the top of a furnace-hot oven. Thin…
Apples baked into an almond custard in a pastry case, with Calvados. Wetter and richer than a plain apple tart and…
A deep custard tart with a thick, wobbling set and a scorched top. Sold by the slab in every French bakery and…
Six layers: almond sponge soaked in coffee syrup, coffee buttercream, chocolate ganache, repeated, and a poured…
Discs of nut meringue layered with buttercream. Chewy rather than crisp, which is what separates it from a vacherin.
Chestnut purée pushed through a ricer into vermicelli over meringue and cream, made to look like the mountain. Piped…
A yeasted sponge soaked until it is saturated with rum syrup. It should be heavy with it — a dry baba is a failed one.
Baked custard turned out so the caramel runs down it. The caramel goes into the moulds first and dissolves into a…
Rice cooked slowly in vanilla milk until it is creamy but the grains still hold. Served warm in the bowl it was…
Hand-rolled twists in a boscaiola of mushrooms, sausage and cream. The name means priest-stranglers and nobody has a…
A soft sweet bun split almost in half and packed with an absurd quantity of whipped cream, then cut flush with a…
Four ingredients, twenty minutes on the stove, and better than almost anything more complicated. The soup to know by…
Scrambled egg on anchovy toast, and there has never been any woodcock in it. Churchill ate it, the House of Commons…
A Cornish fish pie with the heads of the pilchards poking through the crust to look at the sky. It sounds like a…
White fish, smoked fish and prawns under mashed potato, in a sauce made from the milk the fish poached in. The mash…
Poached chicken and slow-cooked leeks under a proper pastry lid, in a sauce made from the poaching liquid. A pie…
Rabbit braised with bacon and cider until it falls off the bone, then baked under pastry. The most-eaten meat in…
Watercress cooked for ninety seconds and blended immediately, which is what keeps it the colour of a wet lawn…
Cold chicken in a curried, apricot-sweetened mayonnaise, invented for the 1953 coronation lunch. Ruined by every…
Golden syrup, breadcrumbs and lemon in a pastry case, under a lattice. Sweet enough to make your teeth ache and the…
Roasted rhubarb folded through whipped cream so it stays in ribbons rather than turning the whole thing pink…
Pudding rice, milk, sugar and nutmeg baked for two hours until a brown skin forms on top. The skin is the entire…
Cream whipped with sweet wine, brandy and lemon until it holds. Elizabethan, requires no heat, and takes about ten…
Toffee made from a tin of condensed milk, bananas, and a great deal of cream, on a biscuit base. Invented in a…
A pastry case filled with set egg custard and grated nutmeg. Nothing to hide behind, which is why it is the tart…
Cream, sugar and lemon juice, boiled for three minutes and left to set. Three ingredients, no gelatine, no eggs, and…
Paneer in a glossy tomato and cashew gravy, finished with butter and cream. The restaurant dish people try to…
Eggs cooked slowly with butter until they set in soft curds. Eleven minutes and there is nothing else in them.
Sweetcorn simmered in a thin broth with potato and finished with cream. Forty-five minutes, and the cobs go in the…
Mussels steamed open in white wine, shallot and parsley, in the time it takes to lay the table.
Paneer charred under a grill first, then folded into a tomato gravy. The char is what separates it from every other…
Coarse cornmeal cooked slowly in milk and stock until creamy, finished with butter and cheese. Thirty minutes.
Balls of enriched dough rolled in cinnamon sugar, stacked in a ring tin and baked so they pull apart in a caramel.
Chocolate sponge soaked in kirsch, layered with cherries and cream. The kirsch is not optional and never was.