No-bake Christmas desserts
Your oven works hard at Christmas. Give it a break while you rustle up one of our no-bake Christmas dessert recipes.
These easy-but-impressive recipes include spectacular trifles, cheesecakes, delicate jellies, chocolate puds and festive fridge cakes. If you’re entertaining over Christmas, why not have a couple of these no-bake dessert recipes chilling in the fridge?
Want even more flavour? Try our five Glow-Up hacks – including a candied pecan crumb to add crunch to your festive dishes.
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Show-stopping Christmas dessert recipes
Triple chocolate baubles
Decoration or dessert? These beautiful baubles require patience but they’re fairly easy to make. With a triple-threat of white chocolate...
Trifle recipes
Orange and ginger cake trifle
Orange trifle makes a glorious Christmas dessert. Orange jelly is topped with ginger cake, white choc pannacotta and an unapologetically...
Trifle recipes
Traditional English trifle
Raspberry jelly, thick vanilla custard, sherry-soaked sponge fingers and pillowy mounds of whipped cream: it’s the ultimate traditional trifle recipe....
Tiramisu recipes
Tiramisu mess
A heavenly mash-up of two dessert classics: Eton mess and tiramisu. This tiramisu mess is speedy enough for a midweek...
No-bake desserts
Chilled chocolate soufflés with salted almond praline
Looking for an impressive make-ahead dessert? These decadent chocolate soufflés topped with salted almond praline can be made 1-2 days...
Christmas chocolate recipes
Terry’s Chocolate Orange cream pie
Looking for an easy make-ahead Christmas dessert? Try our luscious chocolate orange cream pie, with a choc custard filling and ...
Trifle recipes
Chocolate and caramel popcorn trifle
Trifle can be an epic undertaking, but this crunchy chocolate and caramel popcorn trifle, despite being made from scratch, only...
Trifle recipes
Sherry trifle with praline and orange custard
Our stunning sherry trifle is topped with orange scented custard, a billowing layer of cream and praline shards. Some crafty...
Easy baking recipes to make with kids
Terry’s Chocolate Orange rocky road
This moreish rocky road uses Terry’s Chocolate Orange wedges as decoration for an extra chunky texture. It’s the perfect recipe...
Baileys recipes
Baileys chocolate tiramisu trifle
What do you get if you cross tiramisu with chocolate trifle? Make this gloriously decadent but (shh!) easy dessert and...
Dinner party dessert recipes
Crème caramels with caramel oranges
These vegan crème caramels with caramelised orange slices make a spectacular (and easy) dinner party dessert – just sprinkle with pomegranate...
Make-ahead Christmas dessert recipes
Clementine, pomegranate and cranberry jelly
We’ve combined festive flavours of clementine, pomegranate and cranberry to create this fruity Christmas jelly. Feeling nostalgic? These rhubarb and...
Frozen dessert recipes
Baileys and hazelnut parfaits
These nutty and boozy parfaits would make a fabulous dinner party dessert served with a jug of extra Baileys for...
Baileys recipes
Baileys trifle
Everyone loves a splash of Baileys at Christmas time. We’ve created the ultimate in decadent desserts with this Baileys and...
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