English desserts: recipes with photos

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

It is impossible to travel around the UK and not get acquainted with the culinary traditions of this country. And English desserts are rightfully considered an integral part of them. Photos and recipes of the most popular British delicacies are presented in our article. And even people who do not consider themselves a sweet tooth, having tried the famous English puddings and other desserts, can easily change their attitude towards sweets.

Battenberg cake (on the main photo)

The next English dessert is believed to have been invented in 1884 in honor of the marriage of Queen Victoria's granddaughter, Victoria of Hesse-Darmstadt, to the German prince Ludwig of Battenberg. But despite centuries of history in England, it remains popular to this day.

Cook it like this:

1. In the bowl of a mixer or dough mixer, beat soft butter (175 g) with the same amount of flour.
2. Without stopping the beating process, add 3 eggs, 175 g of powdered sugar and 2 tbsp. l. milk.
3. Divide the resulting dough by 2parts. Add 10 drops of pink food coloring to one of them.
4. Spread the dough into two rectangular shapes.
5. Bake biscuits at 180° for 25 minutes. Then they need to be cooled.
6. Cut off the top crust from all sides of each biscuit cake. Divide the two resulting rectangles in half lengthwise. As a result, the cupcakes should be stacked in the form of a chessboard consisting of four cells.
7. Grease the biscuit inside with sweet cream, condensed milk or apricot jam (150 g). Glue the rectangles together.
8. Wrap fondant on top of the cake.

Queen Victoria Biscuit

This is another typical English dessert. In the UK, it can be tasted as a cake or brownie. Everything is perfect in this dessert: a delicate biscuit, an airy cream, and a fragrant strawberry puree. Therefore, it is not at all surprising why this biscuit became the favorite treat of Queen Victoria.

Despite all the majesty and pathos, the recipe for this dessert is quite simple:

1. For the biscuit dough, mix sugar (250 g) and room temperature butter (250 g). Enter 4 eggs one at a time.
2. Flour (250 g) combined with baking powder (8 g) and carefully, in small portions, add to the butter-egg mixture. The dough should be thick. It must be distributed in two forms with a diameter of 18 cm. Bake biscuit cakes for 25 minutes at a temperature of 190 °.
3. For a layer, you can use only strawberry jam or add whipped cream to it. Can iprepare a thicker cream. To do this, beat 340 g of cold curd cheese with powdered sugar (100 g) and soft butter (110 g). After 5 minutes of the mixer, the cream will be ready.
4. When assembling the cake, the first biscuit cake is smeared with jam, then a thick layer of cream is applied and pieces of strawberries are laid out. Top with a second cake. It is layered in the same way as the first. Decorate with whole berries.

Banoffee pie

Another classic English dessert is prepared in the form of a share from simple and affordable ingredients. One of its advantages is that it is prepared without baking, that is, without using the oven.

The dessert recipe includes the following steps:

1. Shortbread cookies (170 g) grind into crumbs. Combine it with melted butter (100 g) and grind to get a mass that resembles wet sand.
2. Put the resulting dough into a mold, forming a cake with sides. It is recommended to tamp the crumbs with the flat side of the glass. Send the cake to the refrigerator.
3. Cook caramel from 200 g of sugar and 50 g of water. Then remove the saucepan from the heat and add 80 g of cold butter and 125 ml of cream to it. Shuffle.
4. Pour the resulting caramel sauce on top of the cake. It can also be replaced with boiled condensed milk.
5. Put sliced bananas (2 pcs.) on top of the caramel. Cover them with a layer of cream based on curd cheese (100 g) and whipped cream with a fat content of 35% (100 g).

Spotted Dick

The next dessert on the English menu has a very unusual name. Why exactly Dick, no one can say. But the word "spotted" is explained by the presence of a large number of dried fruits inside, in particular raisins and dried apricots.

Dessert recipe is quite laborious, but this does not mean that it cannot be prepared at home. The whole process consists of the following steps:

1. Mix 120 g each of flour, breadcrumbs and sugar.
2. Grate cold butter (120 g). Combine it with the flour mixture.
3. Add egg, finely chopped dried apricots and raisins. Grate 2 tbsp ginger root, ¼ tsp nutmeg and orange zest here as well.
4. Last of all, pour 140 ml of milk into the dough and add a pinch of s alt. Mix the mass and put it in a heat-resistant form. From above, tighten it with foil.
5. Place the mold with the dough inside the pan, half filled with hot water. Cover it with a lid and put it on the stove.
6. Bring water in a saucepan to a boil, then reduce to a minimum.
7. Cook dessert for 3 hours. During cooking, make sure that water from the pan does not get into the form with the dough.
8. Hot dessert generously sprinkle with honey or maple syrup. Serve with warm custard or whipped cream.

Sticky toffee pudding

This popular national English dessert resembles a cross between a cake and a pudding. It is prepared from date dough with the obligatory addition of caramelsauce. The name of the dessert literally translates from English as “sticky toffee.”

In the UK it is customary to cook it this way:

1. Pitted dates (200 g) cut into small pieces, put in a saucepan and pour 300 ml of water. Bring to a boil and immediately add 1 teaspoon of baking soda. The mixture will foam. Next, the dates need to be cooked for another 10 minutes over medium heat.
2. Beat 100 g of butter with brown sugar (150 g) and vanilla with a mixer.
3. Add 2 eggs. Add them one at a time to the oil mixture, beating the mixture well each time.
4. Sift 150 g flour with baking powder (½ tsp).
5. Pour boiled dates with water into the same mass. The dough should be very liquid. It must be poured into a mold and placed in a preheated oven (180 °) for 30 minutes.
6. Pour the finished dessert with caramel sauce.

Bread and Butter Pudding

This traditional English dessert is easy and economical. It's easy to prepare:

1. Take 8-12 dried (stale) slices of bread depending on the size of the mold and grease them generously: half with butter and the other with any jam. You can use custard - it will be even tastier.
2. Grease the mold with butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
3. Lay slices of bread overlapped in it, as if with a ladder.
4. Beat 3 eggs with sugar (3 tablespoons). Add sour cream (200 ml) and vanillin (1 tsp).
5. Pourpieces of the resulting sauce.
6. Put the mold with pudding into the oven (170°) for 20 minutes. At the very end, increase the temperature a little so that the pudding is browned.

Crumble

Amazingly delicious and indecently light dessert is proposed to be prepared according to the following recipe. It can be prepared with different fruits and berries. But it is the apple crumble that is considered traditional.

The English dessert recipe consists of the following steps:

1. Knead shortbread dough. To do this, grate 180 g of very cold butter on a coarse grater or chop with a knife.
2. Combine it with flour (110g) and sugar (90g).
3. Quickly knead the dough. Gather into a ball, wrap in cling film and flatten. Then the dough will cool faster. To do this, put it in the freezer for 30 minutes.
4. Apples (3 pcs.) peel and seeds and cut into thin slices. Mix slices with sugar (150g) and flour (25g).
5. Grease a glass or ceramic mold with oil. Lay out all the apple slices in several layers. Grate the dough on top so that the thickness of the layer is at least 1 cm.
6. Put the mold in the oven preheated to 160 degrees for 1 hour. Serve warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

English mini scones

Scones in Britain are traditionally served for breakfast along with strawberry jam and curd cream. It is better to prepare them not in advance, but immediately before use. Especiallythat kneading the dough and baking usually takes no more than 30 minutes. You need to cook like this:

1. In a bowl, sift 260 g flour, 50 g sugar, ¼ tsp. s alt and 2 tsp. baking powder.
2. Add 75 g finely chopped butter.
3. Pour in 120 ml milk or cream, beaten egg and vanilla extract (1 tsp).
4. Make dough. Roll it out with a rolling pin in the form of a layer with a diameter of 18 cm.
5. Cut out thick circles with a diameter of 6 cm with a cutter or a cup. Transfer them to a baking sheet. Bake 15 minutes. Cut in half when serving.

Even a photo of an English dessert cannot convey that amazing aroma and lightness of the crumb. The buns are just delicious.

Bakewell tart

The following English dessert recipe was borrowed from the pudding of the same name. But many people prefer the pie, which is just perfect for afternoon tea. The cooking process is as follows:

1. From 100 g of cold butter, 200 g of flour, 40 g of powdered sugar and 2 egg yolks, knead the shortbread dough. Then put it in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
2. Next, preheat the oven to 180°. Roll out the dough into a thin layer, put it in a form with a diameter of 28 cm, prick with a fork, cover with baking paper, and pour the beans on top. Bake the tart base under weight for 15 minutes.
3. Meanwhile prepare the cream. Melt butter (125 g). Add to it 115 g of sugar and chopped almonds (120 g),mix. Then add 3 eggs. At the very end, add vanilla and almond essence (optional).
4. Put a thin layer of strawberry jam inside the cooled cake, pour cream over it and garnish with almond petals.
5. Bake for 20 minutes. When completely cooled, cut into portions.

English Dessert Trifle Recipe

This popular British dessert is known and loved all over the world. Translated from English, its name means "trifle" or "trifle", which indicates the simplicity of preparing the dish. It is traditionally prepared in a glass punch bowl in which the ingredients are laid out in layers. In addition to sponge cake and custard, berries are added to this English dessert.

Strawberry Trifle should be prepared like this:

1. Knead the dough for the biscuit. First, at high speed of the mixer, beat 3 eggs with sugar (90 g). Then gradually introduce 90 g of sifted flour, mix with a spatula, then carefully pour in 45 g of melted butter. Pour the dough onto a baking sheet to make a 1 cm thick layer. Bake the biscuit for 15-20 minutes at a temperature of 175 °. cool it and cut into cubes.
2. Cook the syrup. To do this, pour 150 ml of water into a saucepan and pour 100 g of sugar into it. Cook syrup over medium heat until thick. Grind strawberries (150 g) in a blender, pour hot syrup over them, add the juice of half a lemon and mix.
3. Prepare the custard. To do this, grind 5 yolks with 100 gsugar and 50 g of cornstarch. Add 500 ml of hot milk to this mixture. Pour it into a saucepan. On low heat and with constant stirring, cook the cream. Then pour it into a separate bowl, cool and combine with cream (125 ml) whipped with powdered sugar (15 g).
4. In glasses or glasses put alternately a biscuit soaked in strawberry syrup and berries cut into slices. Drizzle each layer generously with custard. There is not enough of it in this dessert.

Chelsea buns

This English dessert is on the menu of every cafe-bakery. Chelsea buns were first made in London and have continued to be popular ever since.

To make traditional English pastries you will need:

1. Knead the dough. First, mix 3 and 1/3 cups of flour with dry instant yeast (1 tsp), a pinch of s alt and sugar (75 g). Then add milk (1 tablespoon), beaten egg and butter (50 g) to the dry mixture. Place the kneaded dough in a warm place for 1.5 hours.
2. Prepare the stuffing. To do this, melt butter (25 g) and prepare candied fruits and dried fruits (50 g candied orange peel and 110 g raisins).
3. Shape buns. Roll out the dough into a rectangle shape. Then grease it with oil, sprinkle with sugar (2 tablespoons), cinnamon (1 teaspoon) and raisins. Roll up a rectangle with the filling in the form of a roll and cut it across every 3 cm. Put the resulting buns into a round shape.
4. Bake at 200° for 20 minutes.