The creamiest custard dessert recipes

This moreish chocolate raspberry custard cake is like magic with its layer of custard and spongy fruity top. Serve with freshly whipped cream for a decadent dessert everyone will love!

This crème brûlée-inspired tart is the ultimate in sweet decadence, with its crunchy burnt-toffee topping and oozy vanilla custard filling. Serve chilled or just-caramelised for a satisfying crack and silky inner.

These custard-cream-filled doughnuts look and taste like heaven, and the recipe makes heaps so it’s worth the effort! Serve when friends come over for coffee or have them as a delicious informal dessert.

Elegant, delectable and delicately spiced, these rhubarb, pear and pomegranate custard tea cakes make a wonderful dessert or afternoon tea treat. Serve warm with good quality cream.

Nici Wickes’ tamarillo and brown sugar custard tart recipe is so easy to make! Whip up this divine dessert in a jiffy using store-bought pastry and serve while still warm. Delish!

Try this easy tart, served with a gingernut crumb and lashings of whipped cream, the next time you need to impress with a dessert. It’s simply gorgeous.

Nici Wickes’ custard sandwiches are like a very simplified mille-feuille, but their simplicity belies their impressiveness and they highlight fresh berries perfectly. It’s a dessert recipe almost anyone can master!

This incredible recipe combines Black Doris plums, homemade custard and croissants into one delicious pudding cake. Serve warm as a dessert or cold as a cake for afternoon tea

There’s no other way to say it – this cake is magical! The way the simple batter settles into layers of custard and sponge seems impossible, and yet it works beautifully.

Nadia’s perfectly balanced silky lemon and vanilla custard is a great dessert to share with loved ones.

This rhubarb and custard bread and butter pudding recipe creates the perfect sweet dessert.

Nici Wickes’ sweet pie recipe sees dark chocolate custard topped with clouds of softly whipped cream to create the ultimate dreamy dessert. Make your own pastry or use store-bought for an even easier treat

These delicious mini fruit and custard tarts are incredibly easy to make, but will make you the star of your next dinner party. Could dessert get any cuter?

Silvana Silvestro of Silvana’s Sicilian shares her recipe for Italian dessert classic, cannoli. Crisp pastry tubes are filled with creamy custard for a heavenly sweet treat

Nici Wickes shares her mum’s recipe for roast tamarillos spiked with cinnamon – a dish that has a family history full of love. Serve with homemade custard for a gorgeously simple dessert