Make-ahead favourites
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Make-ahead favourites

Recipes with useful resting, chilling or advance-prep steps.

Make-ahead favourites

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Lolly Cake Dessert
Dessert20 mins

Lolly Cake

A no-bake malt-biscuit log packed with colourful fruit-flavoured confectionery and rolled in coconut define this New Ze…

Patbingsu Dessert
Dessert30 mins

Patbingsu

Patbingsu is Korean shaved ice topped with sweet red beans, condensed milk, fruit and chewy rice cake pieces. This vers…

Afghan Biscuits Dessert
Dessert35 mins

Afghan Biscuits

This New Zealand dessert brings together crisp cocoa and cornflake biscuits topped with chocolate icing and a walnut.

Key Lime Pie Dessert
Dessert40 mins

Key Lime Pie

A bright Florida Keys pie with tart lime custard, a crisp crumb crust and cool whipped topping.

Ginger Crunch Dessert
Dessert50 mins

Ginger Crunch

A distinctive New Zealand dessert: a firm oat or biscuit base topped with intensely gingery icing.

Feijoa Crumble Dessert
Dessert55 mins

Feijoa Crumble

This New Zealand dessert brings together fragrant feijoas baked beneath a buttery oat crumble.

Xôi Xoài Dessert
Dessert55 mins

Xôi Xoài

Xôi Xoài is sweet sticky rice with ripe mango and coconut sauce.

Pecan Pie Dessert
Dessert1h 15m

Pecan Pie

A glossy Southern pecan pie with toasted nuts suspended in a rich caramel-like filling.

Pelamushi Dessert
Dessert2h 28m

Pelamushi

Pelamushi is a silky Georgian grape pudding thickened gently with flour and served cool with toasted walnuts. This vers…

Banoffee Pie Dessert
Dessert2h 40m

Banoffee Pie

Biscuit or pastry base layered with banana, caramel and whipped cream.

Sholeh Zard Dessert
Dessert3h 10m

Sholeh Zard

Sholeh Zard is a Persian saffron rice pudding scented with rosewater and decorated with cinnamon, pistachio and almond.…

Jericalla Dessert
Dessert5h 13m

Jericalla

Jericalla is a Mexican dessert defined by guadalajara-style baked custard.

Summer Pudding Dessert
Dessert8h 20m

Summer Pudding

Juicy summer berries enclosed by bread stained deep crimson with fruit syrup.

Hokey Pokey Ice Cream Dessert
Dessert30 mins

Hokey Pokey Ice Cream

A distinctive New Zealand dessert: vanilla ice cream studded with crisp pieces of caramelised honeycomb.