Big cooking projects

Impress the family with one of these labour-intensive, sweet and savoury recipes.

If you have some time up your sleeve, why not plan your next big cooking project. Whether you want to master the art of puff pastry, impress the family with a labour-intensive French dessert or perfect your spanakopita skills, now is the time to try.

Party Paella

Peanut butter “baklava”

Jammy mandarin and cinnamon buns

Rabbit ‘spanakopita’

Pulled beef rolls with corn and green chilli relish

Slow-cooked pork shoulder with plums

Beef Wellington

Duck galantine with foie gras and beetroot jelly

Duck rillettes

Torta di riso (sweet rice pie)

Puff pastry

Croissants

Vanilla-caramel éclairs with chocolate glaze

Rhubarb millefeuille

Gâteau Saint-Honoré

Chocolate and almond millefeuille

Chocolate raspberry layer cake

Croquembouche

Double plum pudding with brown sugar hard sauce

Lemon meringue pie

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