Desserts are good. Desserts spiked with booze are better. Whiskey makes a welcome addition in desserts with caramel and chocolate flavours (see the chocolate whiskey soufflé or the walnut, whiskey and salted caramel pie), while rum is an essential ingredient in your future savarin-baking sessions. Boozy desserts aren’t just the domain of dark liqueurs. You’ll find limoncello in Jaci Koludrovic’s baba with vanilla cream, vodka in April Bloomfield’s Eton mess, and gin in our lime and coconut angel food cake. It’s dessert time, for adults only.

Jaci Koludrovic’s limoncello baba with vanilla cream

Chaco Bar’s Chaco cheesecake with Japanese whisky

Ginger biscuit ice-cream sandwiches with whisky caramel

Nik Hill’s banoffee trifle with rum syrup

April Bloomfield’s Eton mess with vodka-soaked strawberries

Pan-fried bananas with whiskey and salted maple caramel

Chocolate, prune and walnut cake with chocolate & sherry ganache

Rice and rum pudding fritters with rhubarb and winter strawberry jam

Boozy crème caramel with grapefruit tuiles

Rhubarb-hazelnut puddings with brown sugar-brandy custard

Rum savarin with coconut cream and pineapple

René Redzepi & Nadine Levy Redzepi’s brandy plum cake
