Desserts

Gordon Ramsay’s chocolate cake is a vanilla sponge filled with fresh ginger cream and covered in a dark chocolate ganache made with golden syrup for shine. Three layers: soft sponge, sharp ginger, rich chocolate. From the Ultimate Cookery Course. Serves 8. Ramsay calls this his “canvas” cake: “every cook should master how to make a …

Gordon Ramsay’s lemon meringue cheesecake is creamy and sharp at once, a crisp digestive base under a baked lemon filling, finished with a torched cloud of meringue. It’s made with full-fat soft cheese, soured cream, fresh lemons and egg whites. About half an hour of work, then it sets in the fridge overnight. Gordon hasn’t …

Gordon Ramsay’s raspberry soufflé uses a fresh raspberry purée folded into pastry cream, with whisked egg whites for lift and a dark chocolate-lined ramekin. He calls it “the number one show-off dessert” on The F Word and bakes it at 190°C for 10–12 minutes until golden with crisp edges. The recipe comes from his MasterClass …

Gordon Ramsay’s peach cobbler is warm and bubbling, made with ripe peaches, a buttery scone topping and a hint of vanilla, ready in about 45 minutes. The peaches are roasted in butter first, so the filling sets thick and golden instead of watery. Gordon hasn’t published a peach cobbler, so I built this from two …

Gordon Ramsay’s rhubarb crumble is pink rhubarb sautéed in vanilla sugar and butter with Japanese pickled ginger, topped with a hazelnut and oat crumble and served warm with lemon mascarpone. From Sunday Lunch, where he says “I sauté the rhubarb to enhance the flavour, add a bit of Japanese pickled ginger to give it warmth, …

Gordon Ramsay’s oatmeal cookies are made with just five ingredients: rolled oats, peanut butter, honey, raisins, and walnuts. No flour, no eggs, no refined sugar. These are genuinely healthy cookies that happen to taste brilliant, ready in about 45 minutes including chilling time. The recipe comes from his Ultimate Fit Food cookbook, where he files …

Gordon Ramsay’s baked Alaska is layers of sponge cake and ice cream sealed inside glossy Italian meringue, torched golden on the outside and frozen solid in the centre. The whole thing takes about 30 minutes to assemble, plus freezing time. Ramsay has made this on The F Word and in his Christmas special, calling it …

Gordon Ramsay’s rhubarb tart is sharp, buttery and quick, made with puff pastry, grated frozen marzipan and fresh rhubarb, ready in about 20 minutes. The marzipan melts into the base as it bakes, so you get an almond layer with none of the frangipane faff. This is his recipe from Ramsay in 10, and he …

Gordon Ramsay’s vanilla cupcakes are light, moist sponges built on his creaming method from Ultimate Cookery Course, where butter and sugar get beaten for a full five minutes before eggs go in one at a time and self-raising flour gets folded through with a metal spoon. They bake at 180°C for 18–20 minutes and make …