This an adaptation of my Grandmother Mimí's Pineapple Baba recipe that has been a favourite in our extended family for eons. I have perked it up with rum and a coconut cream to give it a Caribbean flavour. It is an unusual recipe as it uses breadcrumbs, not flour, and it will rise like a soufflé during baking and collapse as it cools. This gives it a spongy texture that readily soaks up all that juicy syrup. Be sure to chill the coconut cream overnight.
Thin, tender and lacy, try this recipe for the most perfect French-style crepes, and then turn them into a special dessert with a flambéed banana filling.
These beautiful little pastry rolls with a semolina custard filling are drenched in a sweet sticky honey syrup that is so loved by the Greeks. This recipe was handed down to me by my girlfriend Kelly, so in our house, they are called Kelly Rolls.
This recipe was designed to make use of a large store-bought Italian-style Pandoro (festive sponge cake), which I turned into dessert cups in a variety of flavours - lemon curd & almond, coffee & nutella and strawberry, custard & coconut, to feed a crowd.
This sensational dessert makes the most of Summer blackberries and mango with the zing of limoncello. I use small store-bought savioardi sponge finger biscuits as they fit my trifle bowl perfectly!