Nigella desserts

This Irish cream tiramisu recipe is a delicious take on an Italian classic, and makes the most of wonderful, creamy Baileys liqueur.

There is a wonderful poetry to the name of this pudding which, thankfully, once eaten could never be forgotten. It's an old, old recipe popularly exhumed — I believe — by the late, great Richard Sax. Think of it as a kind of marshmallow-based pavlova. That's to say, you whip egg whites as if making meringue, spread on a swiss roll tin (or that's how I make it) and put in an oven which you immediately switch off, leaving the pudding to cook overnight, hence "forgotten". For US cup measures…

Nigella Lawson's chocolate Guinness cake is a rich, moist chocolate cake topped with a cream cheese frosting. The perfect celebration cake!

If there’s a family in Italy that doesn’t have a recipe for yogurt pot cake, then I’ve yet to meet them. And I love this plain cake with perhaps disproportionate intensity. There is something so quintessentially Italian about its scent — as it bakes, I think I’m in a kitchen in Italy — and its taste — that combination of lemon and vanilla — and even the old-fashioned charm of its method. This is it: your yogurt pot is your unit of measurement. And even though I saw from the original recipe…

Yaaaaas, Queen! Nigella uses brioche crumbs and plum jam to make her queen of puddings completely regal.

The Nigella Mont Blanc recipe offers a delightful twist on a classic dessert, creating a visually stunning and irresistibly delicious experience. Whether for guests or personal enjoyment, it promises a memorable and decadent treat.

The mic drop of easy, fancy holiday desserts.

I have always avoided making chocolate tarts, not out of laziness (I love a bit of pastry-making, in the right mood), but because I have never really felt that the pastry served the chocolate, or was worth the effort here. This is my simple solution: make a base out of chocolate biscuits. And the filling is just as easy to make, too. Not that you’d know from the taste. I never lie about how effortless something is to make, but no one will believe me on this one. I think the hit of salt is…

This is every bit as wonderful as it sounds: an Italian torta di riso, refracted through the prism of someone who loves a bowl of very British rice pudding. The Italians like to stud their rice cake with candied peel, bake it in a tin lined with breadcrumbs or crushed amaretti, and eat it cold; I sprinkle mine with nutmeg, and serve it warm, most frequently with a jewel-bright jam sauce. But it's also lovely with poached fruit and I can't help thinking it would be fabulous with a bit of…

A semifreddo is not quite an ice cream, as the name — semi-cold, in translation — suggests. There's no custard to make, and no churning required as it freezes, which makes life very much easier. What you get is a smooth, soft block of chilled, almost frozen cream, with a texture of deep, deep velvetiness. This mellow, honey-flavoured version matches taste to texture. For some reason, sometimes when I make it, I end up with a block of uniformly buff cream; at others, I'm left with a honeyed…