Desserts

Gordon Ramsay’s carrot cake is an oil-based sponge with dark brown sugar, 2 teaspoons of cinnamon, mixed spice, and both orange and lemon zest stirred through the batter. Topped with his mascarpone and cream cheese icing. Ready in about an hour. Ramsay makes this on The F Word with Natasha Kaplinsky, where he says “it’s …

Gordon Ramsay’s chocolate brownies are rich, fudgy squares made with 245g of dark chocolate, two types of sugar, and a crackly crust hiding melted chocolate pockets inside. Ready in under an hour, and they make 15 to 20 pieces from one tin. This is his “World’s Best Brownies” recipe from the Bread Street Kitchen cookbook. …

Gordon Ramsay’s blondies recipe is a fudgy white chocolate bake loaded with dried cranberries and a crisp golden crust, ready in under 50 minutes. One of the simplest bakes in his entire cookbook library, and honestly one of the best. This comes straight from his Ultimate Cookery Course, where he describes blondies as “a white …

This key lime pie is a buttery digestive biscuit base filled with a tangy lime and condensed milk custard, baked gently and chilled until set, topped with softly whipped cream. It takes 20 minutes to make and needs at least 6 hours in the fridge. Serves 8. Gordon doesn’t have a published key lime pie …

Gordon Ramsay’s cherry pie is a French Pithiviers, two rounds of puff pastry sealed over a kirsch-spiked almond cream packed with cherries, baked until golden and puffed. It takes about an hour and makes two pies, each serving two to three. Most cherry pies are just fruit in pastry. Gordon’s is closer to a jewel …

Gordon Ramsay’s mince pies are light and buttery with an orange-zest shortcrust, mincemeat folded with dried cranberries, and pastry stars on top. They bake in 15 to 20 minutes and the recipe makes 24. This is his real recipe from Ultimate Christmas. He works fresh orange zest into the pastry dough so the citrus bakes …

Gordon Ramsay’s pecan pie is a two-layer thing, spiced sweet potato on the bottom and a gooey golden-syrup pecan topping baked on top, all inside a cinnamon shortcrust. It’s from his Make It Easy book, filed under “cooking for a crowd,” and it serves 10 with room to spare. What makes it his and not …

Gordon Ramsay’s pumpkin pie is silky and deeply spiced, made with pumpkin, double cream, eggs and warm spice in a crisp shortcrust shell, ready in about an hour and a half. The filling sets like a custard, smooth and dense, never grainy. Gordon hasn’t put a sweet pumpkin pie in a book, so I built …

Gordon Ramsay’s lemon meringue pie is sharp, silky and light, a crisp sweet pastry shell holding a rich lemon-cream filling under a pile of torched meringue. It’s made with fresh lemons, egg yolks, cream and sugar, no cornflour in sight. About an hour of work, plus cooling. This is his real recipe from Great British …