Desserts

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 …

Gordon Ramsay’s chocolate mint cake is a flourless chocolate cake with mint caramel shards folded through the batter and a peppermint whipped cream on top. No flour at all, just dark chocolate, eggs and butter. From Ultimate Home Cooking, where he says it was “inspired by the Icebreaker chocolate and mint bars I enjoyed as …

Gordon Ramsay’s chocolate fondant is crisp on the outside with a molten chocolate centre that flows out when you cut into it, made with dark chocolate, butter, eggs, sugar and just a little flour. Takes 15 to 20 minutes in the oven. Serves 4. This is the Bread Street Kitchen recipe, where Ramsay says “the …

Gordon Ramsay’s white chocolate mousse is light and airy, made with white chocolate, double cream, lime zest and whisked egg whites, layered over crushed raspberries and fresh mint. From Ultimate Home Cooking. Serves 4, plus 2 hours chilling. Ramsay writes: “Here’s a stunningly simple crowd-pleasing dessert that brings together the classic flavours of chocolate, cream, …

Gordon Ramsay’s avocado chocolate mousse is made with just four ingredients: ripe avocados, raw cacao powder, honey and vanilla. No eggs, no cream, no cooking. Blend everything together, chill for an hour and serve. 147 calories per serving. From Ultimate Fit Food, serves 8. Ramsay writes: “It’s made with avocado, which may sound strange, but …

Gordon Ramsay’s banana tarte tatin is spiced with black pepper and pink peppercorns, caramelised in butter and sugar, then baked under puff pastry at 200C until dark and sticky. Flip it onto a plate and serve with ice cream. Serves 6, ready in about 40 minutes. This recipe appears in Ultimate Home Cooking, where Ramsay …

Every Gordon Ramsay pudding recipe from his cookbooks, tested and written up with the real source named. From a 20-minute summer pudding that never sees the oven to a sticky toffee pudding with banana caramel sauce that his restaurant built a reputation on. Use the table below to compare time, difficulty and what each one …

Gordon Ramsay’s sticky toffee pudding is soft, dark and drenched in banana caramel sauce, made with dates pureed into the batter, muscovado sugar and double cream. Ready in about 40 minutes. This is the Bread Street Kitchen recipe, where Ramsay calls it “soft and squidgy with plenty of banana caramel sauce to pool on top.” …