Nigella lawson desserts

A gluten-free Sunken Chocolate Amaretto Cake served with whipped cream and amaretti biscuits. Easy to make and perfect for entertaining.

Nigella Lawson's chocolate Guinness cake is a rich, moist chocolate cake topped with a cream cheese frosting. The perfect celebration cake!

I think this really says it all. I have written so many recipes for trifle, I scarcely dare reiterate my love for it, but this, perhaps the most traditional of my offerings.

Forgotten Cookies: These little cookies - described by one friend as tasting like a cookie within a cookie - are really a mixture between a meringue and a cookie. Hence they've become known at home, where they're immensely popular, as Merookies, and are ideal with a cup of coffee after dinner. #Nigella #AtMyTable

On days when I want the warmth of the hearth rather than the hurly burly of the city streets I stay in and read cookery books, and this recipe comes from just the sort of book that gives most succour, Classic Home Desserts by Richard Sax. The cake itself is as richly and rewardingly sustaining: a melting, dark, flourless, chocolate base, the sort that sinks damply on cooling; the fallen centre then cloudily filled with softly whipped cream and sprinkled with cocoa powder. As Richard Sax…

Nigella's tiramisu is an elegantly buff-tinted, creamy-toned variant of the punchy original.

I have always avoided making chocolate tarts, not out of laziness (I love a bit of pastry-making, in the right mood), but because I have never really felt that the pastry served the chocolate, or was worth the effort here. This is my simple solution: make a base out of chocolate biscuits. And the filling is just as easy to make, too. Not that you’d know from the taste. I never lie about how effortless something is to make, but no one will believe me on this one. I think the hit of salt is…

With layers of moist chocolate sponge and fluffy peanut-flavoured buttercream, Nigella Lawson's Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake, as seen on the BBC2 series Cook, Eat, Repeat, is a decadent celebration bake.

When you haven't got time for overnight setting in the fridge or you don't want to use raw eggs, this mousse is perfect. In fact, at all times, constraints or not, it is chocaliciously gorgeous. For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.

Nigella Lawson's Rice Pudding Cake, as seen on the BBC2 series Cook, Eat, Repeat, is a comforting, British take on the Italian classic, torta di riso.