Our best ever Christmas dessert recipes for 2023 (2024)

This blondie combination, with its sugar-sesame-salt sprinkle is mightily addictive. You have been warned!

Recipe: Tahini and Sesame Choc Chip Blondies

Any leftover stale panettone makes for stellar French toast or bread-and-butter pudding.

Recipe: Chocolate and Orange Panettone

The tangy flavour of crème fraîche in this Christmas dessert helps balance the sweetness from the white chocolate, but you could use extra double cream, if you prefer.

Recipe: No-Bake Irish Cream and White Chocolate Tart

If, like us, you love a gingerbread latte during the festive season, then you need to try these warming spiced buns. Don’t want the extra caffeine kick in the icing? Replace the espresso with decaf or water.

Recipe: Gingerbread Latte Tear and Share Bread

Trifles should mean you're never stuck for a Christmas dessert idea! The retro mix of almonds and sugar sprinkles gives much-needed crunch to the topping on this fruity but rich pud, but you could use some pared orange zest instead.

Recipe: Clementine and Prosecco Trifle

Adorn this Christmas profiterole dessert wreath with any of your favourite Pick ‘n’ Mix sweets! This can be enjoyed all year round, using any colours you like to dye your chocolate.

Recipes: Profiterole Pick ‘N’ Mix Wreath

For a low-key Christmas dessert idea, this boozy and warming crumble will put a smile on your guest’s faces. The gingerbread mixture makes more biscuits than you need, but they keep well and are delicious with a cup of tea or hot milk.

Recipe: Gingerbread Gin Apple and Blackberry Crumble

Boozy, rich and delicious, this elegant Christmas dessert is a great alternative if you’re not a fan of Christmas pudding but still want something suitably festive.

Recipe: Eggnog Panna Cotta with Boozy Mulled Figs

Christmas desserts don't get more retro than this boozy custard tart. This old-school classic, with a nostalgic festive twist, is perfect for a dinner party.

Recipe: Snowball co*cktail Tart

This vibrant Christmas dessert is guaranteed to impress your guests at Christmas.

Recipe: Candy cane roulade

The whole family will love our triple-chocolate version of this traditional Christmas recipe.

Recipe: Triple chocolate Bûche de Noël

A tower of these meringue kisses will look stunning on your Christmas table. Dust with edible glitter for a final festive flourish.

Recipe: Meringue kiss tower

Turn leftover Christmas cake into a whole new dessert, with these quick festive crepes.

Recipe: Christmas cake crepes

Yes, you can make a last-minute pud that everyone loves. This takes minutes to cook in the oven while you’re enjoying your roast turkey and trimmings.

Recipe: Chocolate orange panettone pudding

This boozy and decadent tart is the perfect dinner party dessert. Combining all of the rich flavours of an espresso martini, such as vodka, coffee liqueur and chocolate, encased in buttery pastry and then topped with fluffy and sweet meringue, it's a true crowd pleaser!

Recipe: Espresso martini tart

A candied whole orange as a surprise centre gives this Christmas pudding recipe real wow factor.

Recipe: Hidden orange Christmas pudding

With a seasonal twist on salted caramel, these brandy butter fondants are a decadent treat worthy of Christmas Day.

Recipe: Brandy Butter Caramel Chocolate Fondants

Earthy chestnuts and rich chocolate make for a deliciously dense pudding cake.

Recipe: Flourless Chocolate and Chestnut Torte

Once the meringue is cooked, this impressive wreath comes together quickly.

Recipe: Mulled Clementine Meringue Wreath

It wouldn’t be Christmas without a Yule log, and this one has a fruity, boozy hit of cherries and kirsch.

Recipe: Black Forest Yule log