Desserts

Ripe bananas mashed into a batter with desiccated coconut, lime zest and a pinch of salt. Dropped by the spoonful into hot oil until golden and puffed, with no eggs, no milk and no butter. Makes 12-16 in about 20 minutes including chilling. Ramsay picked this up travelling through Thailand and Vietnam, where he says …

Dark chocolate, fresh mint, cream and honey rolled into small balls and dusted in cocoa powder. Ramsay makes these with his kids on Christmas Eve because they are simple enough for children to help with, and he calls them “the perfect after-dinner chocolates.” The whole batch makes about 30 with an hour of chilling in …

Gordon Ramsay’s pineapple carpaccio is wafer-thin slices of ripe pineapple scattered with pomegranate seeds, shredded mint and vanilla salt. The salt draws out the fruit’s natural sweetness without adding sugar. No cooking, no oven, done in about 15 minutes. Ramsay demonstrates this in his gazpacho YouTube video, where he calls it “practically all of your …

Gordon Ramsay’s dulce de leche biscuits are crumbly shortbread cookies sandwiched with sweet caramel and dusted with icing sugar, which he calls alfajores in Ultimate Home Cooking. The dough uses cornflour alongside plain flour for that melt-in-the-mouth texture, makes 8 and bakes in 10 to 12 minutes. Ramsay traces the recipe back through three continents …

Gordon Ramsay’s Black Forest gateau is a dark chocolate and espresso sponge soaked in kirsch, layered with fresh cherries and whipped cream. It takes about an hour plus cooling. The sponge soaks up the cherry syrup, which is the step that keeps it moist. This is Gordon Ramsay’s recipe from his Ultimate Cookery Course, and …

Raspberry millefeuille is crisp caramelised puff pastry layered with vanilla orange cream and fresh raspberries, and it comes together in under an hour. You need shop-bought all-butter puff, double cream, raspberries and a little Grand Marnier. The whole trick is in how the pastry bakes. This is Gordon Ramsay’s version from his Ultimate Cookery Course, …

Gordon Ramsay’s profiteroles are light choux pastry buns filled with vanilla chantilly cream and drowned in a warm dark chocolate sauce, ready in about an hour. The choux uses milk, water, butter, flour and eggs, nothing more. Get the pastry right and the rest is just piping and pouring. Gordon makes these on The F …

Gordon Ramsay’s Eton mess is crushed meringue, ripe strawberries and softly whipped cream, frozen into a bombe you turn out whole. The recipe comes from his Ultimate Home Cooking book, and it takes about 25 minutes to assemble before an overnight freeze. Ramsay calls it a makeover from “nursery food to dinner party show-stopper,” because …

Gordon Ramsay’s raspberry lemon cheesecake is a baked New York-style dessert with no base, made from cream cheese, eggs, lemon zest and fresh raspberries. The recipe comes from Ultimate Cookery Course, serves eight and bakes in just 35 minutes. Ramsay says “if there is one thing the Americans know how to do, it’s how to …

Gordon Ramsay’s doughnuts are made with fresh yeast, milk, butter and egg yolks, filled with chocolate ganache and rolled in malt powder mixed with sugar. The recipe comes from Ultimate Cookery Course, makes 12 and takes about 2 hours including the rise. He has three completely different doughnut recipes across three cookbooks, each using a …