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    Home • Recipes • French Desserts

    French Desserts

    • individual ice cream with candied fruits on plate with lavender, apricot sauce and a macaron
      No Churn Ice Cream with Candied Fruit (Glace Plombières)
    • Whisky glass filled with soft scoop creamy ice cream next to almond cookies, heather and Whisky liqueur
      No Churn Ice Cream with Whisky Liqueur, Drambuie
    • mango cream dessert made with fresh mangos, whipped cream, coconut milk, vanilla and lime
      Mango Cream Recipe - Like a Mousse without Eggs or Sugar
    • slice of French blueberry tart, baked in the oven with a crisp pâte sucrée pastry and dusted with powdered sugar
      French Blueberry Tart - The Easiest Recipe
    • bowl of bright red rhubarb compote
      Rhubarb Compote (Compote de Rhubarbe)
    • tray holding slices of toasted French toast or Pain Perdu in a boulangerie in France in front of baguettes
      Best French Toast Recipe (Pain Perdu)
    • glass dessert dish of creamy pistachio panna cotta topped with a strawberry coulis
      Strawberry Panna Cotta with Pistachio
    • bowl of chunky apple compote, with a spoonful showing the specks of vanilla in it
      Easy Apple Sauce Recipe (French Apple Compote)
    • apple compote sandwiched with oat crumble as a cake
      French Apple Crumble Cake
    • mini cup of creamy ice cream with a sprig of lemon verbena leaves
      Lemon Verbena Ice Cream (Glace à la verveine)
    • cup of lemon ice cream with strawberries
      Creamy Lemon Ice Cream (Glace au citron)
    • slice of chocolate plate with eiffel tower served with a thin custard sauce
      Crème Anglaise with Chai Tea (Thin French Custard)
    • fudgy chocolate cake sliced open with chocolate macaron on top
      French Chocolate Cake (Fondant au Chocolat)
    • plate of gooey gluten free brownies made with almond flour and melted chocolate, topped with almonds
      Gluten Free Brownies - Fudgiest Ever
    • golden, shiny roasted caramelised pineapple slices on a plate with vanilla
      Roasted Pineapple with Sticky Vanilla
    • spoon into a runny centre dark chocolate cake
      Lava Cakes (Moelleux au Chocolat)
    • elegant dessert plate with half a poached pear sitting in a puddle of vanilla and coffee syrup with chocolate macarons
      Vanilla Poached Pears - Be Bold with Coffee
    • a large slice of chocolate cake topped with a rum glaze, toasted flaked almonds and gold leaf
      Almond Flour Chocolate Cake (Gâteau Reine de Saba)
    • scoops of light chestnut coloured ice cream topped with candied chestnuts
      Chestnut Vanilla Ice Cream (Glace aux Marrons)
    • black forest chocolate cherry cream with macarons
      No Bake Chocolate Puddings (crème au chocolat)
    • shallow bowl of white poached vanilla peaches topped with homemade raspberry puree and vanilla ice cream with some fresh lemon verbena leaves
      Peach Melba - Discover Escoffier's Easy Recipe
    • slice of pudding in a puddle of vanilla cream custard topped with nuts and berries
      French Semolina Cake (Gâteau de Semoule)
    • baked peach without skin and stuffed with a mixture of amaretti or almonds and raspberries
      Baked Peaches (with Amaretti)
    • large pink macaron with pastry cream with a border of raspberries
      Passion Fruit and Raspberry Macaron Filling
    • 2 white meringue halves stuck together with cream to look like a melting snowball cake
      French Meringue Filled Snowballs
    • French tarts with pistachio pastry cream and stawberries
      Strawberry and Pistachio Tart - with Pistachio Pastry Cream
    • deep pink cherry chocolate macarons with stalks as decor
      Chocolate Cherry Ganache Macaron Filling
    • caramel pineapple rice pudding
      Caramelised Pineapple Rice Pudding (Riz Condé)
    • rhubarb and custard cheesecake, decorated with rhubarb chips and strawberries
      Rhubarb and Custard Cheesecake
    • French layered chocolate cake, showing the moist inside layers
      Patrick Roger's Layered Chocolate Cake
    • glazed upside down almond tart with strawberries
      Strawberry Almond Tart - How to Turn it into a French Cake
    • individual serving dish of rhubarb crumble with oats
      Individual Rhubarb Crumble Revisited
    • bowl of pistachio ice cream with flecks of vanilla and surrounded by pistachio shells
      Pistachio Ice Cream (with or without Wasabi)
    • Pear Belle Helene, a poached pear on ice cream topped with chocolate sauce
      Poire Belle Hélène - Parisian Poached Pears with Chocolate Sauce
    • moist cake showing roasted rhubarb and toasted almonds on top
      Rhubarb Cake with Orange and Rose
    • Chocolate Easter Bunny Birthday Cake
      Triple Chocolate Easter Bunny Cake - No Packet Mixes!
    • glass dish of prunes soaked in red wine, garnished with orange and spices
      Mulled Wine Prunes (Pruneaux au Vin)
    • pink panna cotta dessert made with white chocolate and rose
      White Chocolate Panna Cotta with Rose
    • bavarois with berries, chilled fruity French dessert
      Bavarois Recipe with Red Fruit (Bavarian Cream)
    • mini macaron raspberry trifles
      Mini Macaron Trifles - Parisian Ispahan Style
    • slice of purple carrot cake topped with cream cheese frosting
      Purple Carrot Cake
    • chunky apple tart with toasted nuts and cracking walnuts with a nutcracker doll
      French Apple Nougat Tart (Tarte aux Pommes et Nougat)

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