Fruit desserts
Adam Liaw’s baked cinnamon apples
These buttery baked apples are comfort food made simple.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Adam Liaw
Karen Martini’s apple and cherry brown butter cake meets clafoutis pudding
This satisfying and comforting cake is reminiscent of the French pudding, and you can vary the recipe to bake it year-round.
- 2 hrs +
- Karen Martini
- Recipe collection
- Summer
Keep your cool with 15 of our easiest-ever frozen desserts for hot days
Some fresh or frozen fruit and a little sweetened yoghurt are all you need for the majority of these simple sweets.
Sweet whipped ricotta with roasted vanilla plums
This make-ahead ricotta mousse is a wonderful dessert base for all kinds of fresh or roasted fruits.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Helen Goh
Adam Liaw’s frozen fruit iced yoghurt
A microplane grater and some frozen fruit are all you need to make this easiest of desserts. Add a little sweetened yoghurt and you’re in heaven.
- 2 hrs +
- Adam Liaw
Strawberry galette with rose cream
Baked until the strawberries are bubbly and the pastry flaky and golden, this rustic tart is heaven.
- 2 hrs +
- Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Patience and grunt work: Emelia Jackson’s secrets to making the perfect pavlova
So many things can go wrong with Australia’s best-known dessert. Follow these simple tricks, and you’ll have the crisp, snowy meringue of your dreams.
- 1-2 hrs
- Emelia Jackson
Looking for the ultimate party pud? Emelia Jackson’s retro ice-cream cake is the bombe
This showstopping summer celebration cake delivers plenty of bang but is much easier to make than it looks.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Emelia Jackson
Panna cotta with limoncello curd and berries for a crowd
Start this recipe one day ahead and thank yourself later when you serve this stress-free and impressive dessert.
- 1-2 hrs
- Katrina Meynink