English desserts: recipes with photos

It is impossible to travel around the UK and not get acquainted with the culinary traditions of this country. And their English desserts are rightfully considered to be their integral part. Photos and recipes of the most popular British goodies are presented in our article. And even people who do not consider themselves sweets, having tried the famous English puddings and other desserts, can easily change their attitude to sweets.

Battenberg Cake (in the main photo)

It is believed that the following English dessert was invented in 1884 in honor of the marriage of the granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Victoria of Hesse-Darmstadt and the German prince Ludwig Battenberg. But despite a centuries-old history in England, it remains popular to this day.

It should be prepared as follows:

1. In a bowl of a mixer or dough mixer, beat soft butter (175 g) with the same amount of flour.
2. Without stopping the beating process, add 3 eggs, 175 g of powdered sugar and 2 tbsp. Into the dough. l milk.
3. Divide the resulting dough into 2 parts. Add 10 drops of pink food coloring to one of them.
4. Put the dough in two rectangular shapes.
5. Bake biscuits at 180 ° 25 minutes. Then they need to cool.
6. Cut the top crust from all sides of each biscuit cake. Divide the two resulting rectangles in half lengthwise. As a result, the muffins should be stacked in the form of a checkerboard consisting of four cells.
7. Lubricate the biscuit inside with a sweet cream, condensed milk or apricot jam (150 g). Glue the rectangles together.
8. Wrap the cake with mastic on top.

Queen Victoria's biscuit

This is another typical English dessert. In the UK, you can try it in the form of a cake or cake. Everything is perfect in this dessert: a delicate biscuit, an air cream, and fragrant mashed strawberry berries. Therefore, it is not at all surprising why this biscuit has become Queen Victoria's favorite treat.

Despite all the grandeur and pathos, the recipe for this dessert is quite simple:

1. For biscuit dough, mix sugar (250 g) and room temperature oil (250 g). Insert 4 eggs one at a time.
2. Combine the flour (250 g) with a baking powder (8 g) and carefully, in small portions, enter with the butter-egg mixture. The dough should be thick. It must be distributed in two forms with a diameter of 18 cm. Bake biscuit cakes for 25 minutes at a temperature of 190 °.
3. For the layer, you can use only strawberry jam or add whipped cream to it. And you can cook a more dense cream. To do this, beat 340 g of cold curd cheese with powdered sugar (100 g) and soft butter (110 g). After 5 minutes of operation of the mixer, the cream will be ready.
4. When assembling the cake, the first biscuit cake is smeared with jam, then a thick layer of cream is applied and pieces of strawberry berries are laid out. Top cover with a second cake. It is interlaced in the same way as the first. Decorate with whole berries.

Banoffee pie

Another classic English dessert is prepared as a share of simple and affordable ingredients. One of its advantages is that it is cooked without baking, that is, without using an oven.

The dessert recipe includes the following steps:

1. Grind shortbread cookies (170 g) into crumbs. Combine it with melted butter (100 g) and grind to get a mass resembling wet sand.
2. Put the resulting dough into a mold, forming a cake with sides. Tamping the crumb is recommended with the flat side of the glass. Send cake to the refrigerator.
3. Cook caramel from 200 g of sugar and 50 g of water. Then remove the stewpan from the heat and add 80 g of cold butter and 125 ml of cream to it. Mix.
4. Pour the resulting caramel sauce on top of the cake. It can also be replaced with boiled condensed milk.
5. On top put caramel sliced ​​bananas (2 pcs.) On top. Cover them with a cream-based cream cheese (100 g) and whipped cream with a fat content of 35% (100 g).

Spotted Dick

The next dessert of the English menu has a very unusual name. Why Dick, no one can say. But the word "spotted" is explained by the presence of a large number of dried fruits inside, in particular raisins and dried apricots.

The dessert recipe is quite time-consuming, but this does not mean that it cannot be prepared at home. The whole process consists of the following steps:

1. Mix 120 g of flour, breadcrumbs and sugar.
2. Grate cold butter (120 g). Combine it with flour mixture.
3. Add the egg, chopped finely dried apricots and raisins. Grate ginger root (2 tbsp.), Nutmeg (¼ tsp.) And orange zest here.
4. Lastly pour 140 ml of milk into the dough and add a pinch of salt. Stir the mass and put it into a heat-resistant form. Tighten it with foil on top.
5. Put the form with the dough inside the pan, filled to half with hot water. Cover it and place on the stove.
6. Bring the water in the pan to a boil and then reduce to a minimum.
7. Cook dessert for 3 hours. In the cooking process, make sure that the water from the pan does not get into the form with the dough.
8. Pour hot dessert generously with honey or maple syrup. Serve with warm custard or whipped cream.

Sticky toffee pudding

This popular national English dessert resembles a cross between a muffin and a pudding. It is prepared from date dough with the obligatory addition of caramel sauce. The name of the dessert from English literally translates as “sticky toffee”.

In the UK, it is customary to cook it this way:

1. Pitted dates (200 g) cut into small pieces, put in a pan and pour 300 ml of water. Bring to a boil and immediately add 1 teaspoon of soda. The mixture will foam. Then dates need to be cooked for another 10 minutes over medium heat.
2. Beat with a mixer 100 g butter with brown sugar (150 g) and vanilla.
3. Add 2 eggs. Introduce them into the oil mixture one at a time, each time beating the mixture well.
4. Sift 150 g flour with baking powder (½ tsp).
5. Pour boiled dates with water into the same mass. The dough should be very liquid. It must be poured into a mold and put in a preheated oven (180 °) for 30 minutes.
6. Pour over the finished dessert with caramel sauce.

Butter and Pudding (Bread and Butter Pudding)

This traditional English dessert belongs to the category of simple and economical. It’s easy to prepare:

1. Take 8-12 dried (stale) slices of bread depending on the size of the mold and generously grease them: half with butter, and the other with any jam. You can use custard - it will turn out even tastier.
2. Grease the form with butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
3. Put slices of bread in it with an overlap, as if with a ladder.
4. Beat 3 eggs with sugar (3 tbsp. L.). Add sour cream (200 ml) and vanillin (1 tsp).
5. Pour the slices with the resulting sauce.
6. Send the pudding form to the oven (170 °) for 20 minutes. At the very end, increase the temperature a little to make the pudding brown.

Cramble

Amazingly tasty and indecently light dessert is proposed to be prepared according to the following recipe. It can be cooked with different fruits and berries. But it is crumble with apples that is considered traditional.

The recipe for an English dessert consists of the following steps:

1. Knead shortbread dough. To do this, grate 180 g of very cold butter on a coarse grater or chop with a knife.
2. Combine it with flour (110 g) and sugar (90 g).
3. Knead the dough quickly. Collect it into a ball, wrap it in a film and flatten it. Then the dough will cool faster. To do this, put it in the freezer for 30 minutes.
4. Peel apples (3 pcs.) From peel and seeds and cut them into thin slices. Mix the slices with sugar (150 g) and flour (25 g).
5. Lubricate the glass or ceramic mold with oil. Put all apple slices in several layers. Grate the dough on top so that the layer thickness is at least 1 cm.
6. Put the mold in an oven preheated to 160 degrees for 1 hour. Serve warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

English mini scones

Scones in Britain are usually served for breakfast along with strawberry jam and curd cream. It is better to cook them not in advance, but immediately before use. Moreover, it usually takes no more than 30 minutes to knead the dough and bake. You need to cook like this:

1. Sift 260 g flour, 50 g sugar, ¼ tsp into a bowl. salt and 2 tsp. baking powder.
2. Add 75 g of finely chopped butter.
3. Pour in 120 ml of milk or cream, a beaten egg and vanilla extract (1 tsp).
4. Make a dough. Roll it out with a rolling pin in the form of a layer with a diameter of 18 cm.
5. Cutting thick circles with a diameter of 6 cm by cutting or a cup. Put them on a baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes. When serving, cut in half.

Even a photo of an English dessert cannot convey that amazing aroma and airiness of the crumb. The buns are just amazing.

Tart Bakewell (Bakewell tart)

The following recipe for an English dessert was borrowed from the pudding of the same name. But many people prefer the pie, which is just perfect for afternoon tea drinking. The cooking process is as follows:

1. From 100 g of cold butter, 200 g of flour, 40 g of icing sugar and 2 yolks, knead shortbread dough. Then put it in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
2. Then heat the oven to 180 °. Roll out the dough into a thin layer, put it into a mold with a diameter of 28 cm, prick it with a fork, cover with baking paper, and pour the beans on top. Bake base for tart under load for 15 minutes.
3. Meanwhile, prepare the cream. Melt the butter (125 g). Add 115 g of sugar and chopped almonds (120 g) to it, mix. Then introduce 3 eggs. At the very end, add vanillin and almond essence (optional).
4. Put strawberry jam in a thin layer inside the cooled cake, pour cream on it and decorate with almond petals.
5. Bake for 20 minutes. After complete cooling, cut into portions.

The recipe for the English dessert "Tiffle"

This popular British dessert is known and loved around the world. Translated from English, its name means "trifle" or "trifle", which indicates the simplicity of cooking. Traditionally, it is prepared in a glass punch bowl, in which the ingredients are laid out in layers. In addition to sponge cake and custard, berries are added to this English dessert.

Strawberry Trifle should be prepared as follows:

1. Knead the dough for biscuit. First, beat 3 eggs with sugar (90 g) at a high speed mixer. Then gradually introduce 90 g of sifted flour, mix with a spatula, then carefully pour 45 g of melted butter. Pour the dough onto a baking sheet to make a 1 cm thick layer. Bake a biscuit for 15-20 minutes at a temperature of 175 °. cool it and cut into cubes.
2. Boil the syrup. To do this, pour 150 ml of water into a stewpan and pour 100 g of sugar into it. Boil the syrup over medium heat until a thick consistency. Grind strawberries (150 g) in a blender, pour them with hot syrup, add the juice of half a lemon and mix.
3. Cook custard. To do this, grind 5 yolks with 100 g of sugar and 50 g of corn starch. Add 500 ml of hot milk to this mixture. Pour it into the stewpan. Boil the cream over low heat and with constant stirring. Then pour it into a separate bowl, cool and combine with whipped cream sugar (15 g) cream (125 ml).
4. In a glass or glass, put in turn a biscuit soaked in strawberry syrup and sliced ​​berries. Pour each layer generously with custard. He is not enough in this dessert.

Chelsea Buns

This English dessert is included in the menu of every cafe-bakery. For the first time, Chelsea buns were made in London and since then their popularity has not diminished.

To prepare traditional English pastries you will need:

1. Knead the dough. First mix 3 and 1/3 cups flour with dry instant yeast (1 tsp), a pinch of salt and sugar (75 g). Then add milk (1 tbsp), a beaten egg and butter (50 g) to the dry mixture. Put the mixed dough in a warm place for 1.5 hours.
2. Cook the filling. To do this, melt butter (25 g) and prepare candied fruits and dried fruits (50 g candied orange peel and 110 g raisins).
3. Form buns. Roll out the dough in the shape of a rectangle. Then grease it with oil, sprinkle with sugar (2 tbsp.), Cinnamon (1 tsp.) And raisins. Roll a rectangle with a filling in the form of a roll and cut it across every 3 cm. Put the resulting buns into a round shape.
4. Bake products at 200 ° for 20 minutes.