Desserts

• 1 Chocolate treats to bake up a storm in the kitchen this National Baking Day
  In case you ever needed an excuse to bake up sweet delights such as cookie cake, brownies, flapjacks or crunchy cupcakes, now you have one. World Baking Day on Sunday is the perfect time to embrace your...

• 2 Baking the perfect shortbread: melt-in-the-mouth recipes
  Think of foods you associate with Scotland. Haggis, Whiskey and shortbread biscuits are bound to come to mind – maybe even fried Mars bars. And seeing as Burns night, which celebrates...

• 3 Vanilla pods: adding a delightful touch of vanilla to your dessert
  Vanilla pods are one of the best ingredients a baker can have – with a sweet, spicy and perfumed aroma and a woody or smokey flavour – they are often key for making desserts such...

• 4 Festive figs: The perfect autumnal dessert
  Finish off a scrumptious seasonal meal with a selection of desserts made from deliciously moreish figs. Naturally sweet, their honeyed taste and a soft, squishy texture make them worth seeking out and...

• 5 Gizzi Erskine's Sticky toffee figgy puddings
  Dish type: Dessert Preparation and cooking time: 55 minutes Serves 6 Ingredients : 150g dates, stoned and chopped 150 dried figs, chopped 250ml black tea, made with 1 teabag 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of...

• 6 Baked Figs with Greek God Yogurt
  Dish type: Dessert Cooking and preparation time: 25 minutes Serves 4 Ingredients 4 fresh figs ½ pot (340g) of Greek Gods Honey & Clementine Yogurt Chopped walnuts Brown sugar Amaretto (optional) Runny...

• 7 Date, Fig & Orange Oatmeal Bars
  Dish type: Dessert Preparation and cooking time: 50 minutes Serves: 16 Ingredients 100g plain flour 100g porridge oats 100g dates, chopped 2 fresh figs, chopped 50g brown sugar ¼ tsp salt ¼...

• 8 Hazelnut and Fig tarts
  Dish type: Dessert Preparation and cooking time: 50 mins Serves: 8 Ingredients: 2 whole eggs 2 egg yolks 500ml Alpro Hazelnut drink 4 heaped tbsp caster sugar 4 figs 8 ready-made sweet pastry cases 20g...

• 9 From Fondant Fancies to an Elizabeth Sponge, have a whirl at great British baking
  After the mouthwatering final of this year's Great British Bake Off, we've become inspired to do more celebrating of 2012 being a year synonymous with all things British. And with the Queen's Diamond...

• 10 Puds from a masterchef
  Gregg Wallace, host of the popular TV show Masterchef (the celeb version has just re-started on BBC1), has brought together his top desserts in his new book, Gregg’s Favourite Puddings. The former...