British Recipes
171 recipes found
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The Classic British Dessert to Make Before Summer Is Over
Featuring layers of vanilla ice cream, fresh strawberries, swirls of whipped cream, and a fan wafer, the knickerbocker glory is a summer staple at ice cream parlors and seaside cafés across the United Kingdom.
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This Classic British Tart Is Sweet, Nutty, and Steeped in History—Here's How to Bake It Well
The Bakewell tart, a British dessert of fragrant almond cream and tart raspberry jam nestled in a tender shortcrust pastry, is a staple of cafés in the UK.
Chocolate Easter Egg Nests
Loved by adults and children alike, Easter nest “cakes” are the perfect no-fuss baking activity for the whole family. These couldn’t be simpler: Just stir, portion, chill and fill with as many candy eggs as you can. If you can find golden syrup (a wondrous sweetener from Britain and a product you’ll never regret having in your pantry), you’ll get a more complex sweetness and chew, though corn syrup will work, too.
Bubble and Squeak
Bubble and squeak is a deeply caramelized, homey cake of leftover mashed potatoes and other vegetables, traditionally made the morning after a Sunday roast. This classic British dish gets its name from the cooking process: As the moisture from the vegetables bubbles away, the vegetables sizzle and squeak — especially the cabbage, a common addition. Be sure to let the bottom brown and crisp, mix those bits into the mash, then repeat until the cake is strewn with golden vegetables throughout. Eat alongside a fried or poached egg for breakfast. To make it vegetarian, replace the bacon with 2 tablespoons of olive oil.
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Classic British Fish and Chips
Coated in a crisp, airy batter, fried until light golden, then spritzed with malt vinegar, these fish and chips are gloriously crunchy and tender.
Orange Marmalade
Marmalade techniques abound, and many are complicated, but everyone can master this easy recipe with good old-fashioned navel oranges and a little patience. Most traditional recipes are made with Seville oranges, a fragrant citrus that often requires blanching to remove some of its bitterness. To mimic the unique tangy bittersweetness of Sevilles, this method simply uses a combination of oranges and lemon. Rest assured, it will not taste cloyingly sweet, but rather balanced and bright, as all great fruit preserves should. One step that can’t be rushed, however, is an overnight soak to extract as much pectin from the boiled peels as possible — this will keep the marmalade spreadable and buoyant.
Microwave Sticky Toffee Pudding
You’re just 10 minutes away from a bowl of soft, date-flecked cake draped in a brown sugary sauce. This speedy take on sticky toffee pudding is made for one or two people and doesn’t require turning on the oven — just the microwave. Topping your warm cake with cold ice cream, whipped cream or sour cream is a welcome contrast and helps temper the sweetness. A few toasted pecans on top would add a nice crunch.
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Give Eggnog a Playful Update By Turning It Into Jello Shots
Boozy, rich, and scented with nutmeg, eggnog is even more festive in jello-shot form.
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British Mince Pies
This holiday season, take the time to make your own British mince pies, which have a boozy mixture of grated fresh apples, dried fruit, brown sugar, and citrus.
Sticky Date and Pecan Pudding
This sticky date and pecan pudding is a decadent dessert that combines the best of both the classic sticky toffee pudding and a self-saucing pudding. A light, airy batter is topped with a layer of pecans, butter, date molasses, sugar and water. As the cake batter rises, the butter and sugars dissolve and settle on the bottom of the dish to create a moist cake crowned with perfectly roasted pecans and a rich toffee sauce beneath. Served fresh from the oven with a dollop of sour cream, this pudding delivers a delightful combination of sweet, salty and tangy flavors in every bite. While you can bake it all in one go, this recipe is designed for convenience, so you can assemble it ahead of time then pop it into the oven to bake while you enjoy your meal. This ensures it’s served at its best, warm and fresh from the oven, as this cake is at its most delicious when the sauce has just stopped bubbling beneath.
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Rocky Road
With chocolate, crunchy biscuits, chewy fruit, and fluffy marshmallows packed into every bite, this easy one-bowl treat is sure to satisfy any sweet tooth.
Stephen and Evie Colbert’s Beef Wellington
Every year you fret over keeping the turkey juicy. You dry brine; you wet brine; you slather with butter over and under the skin; you baste lovingly. But if you're the one with the anxiety, why does the bird get the spa treatment? With the help of this recipe from our cookbook, “Does This Taste Funny?,” plus store-bought pastry and a good meat thermometer, beef Wellington can be a surprisingly easy and elegant centerpiece to your Thanksgiving table. Wrapped in its bundle of crust, that juicy flavor is all tucked in.
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Bread Pudding
In the cold months of winter there’s nothing better than digging into a warm, custardy bread pudding. The good news is it’s incredibly easy to make: Just soak chunks of toasted bread in a spiced vanilla custard and bake the casserole until the top is crisp for a comforting and crowd pleasing dessert for holidays or any day.
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Shepherd's Pie Baked Potatoes
Everything you love about the classic British dish, but stuffed into a baked potato.
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Custard Creams
These sandwich-style cookies feature a silky, pale yellow custard powder–flavored buttercream between two crumbly rectangular biscuits.
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Scotch Eggs
Crispy, juicy pork sausage wrapped around a soft-boiled egg makes these scotch eggs a satisfying—and impressive—snack.
Potato Pete’s Potato Scones
These scones are surprisingly decadent for a recipe devised in wartime Britain as a way to stretch rations of flour and butter. As adapted by the historian Eleanor Barnett from a 1940s pamphlet produced and published by the Ministry of Food, it uses up leftover mashed potatoes and lets you get by with about half the amounts of flour and butter that a typical scone recipe might require. There’s less of a rise, since potatoes lack gluten and thus can’t create the long, elastic strands of protein that trap air and bring buoyancy. But the extra starch gives the scones softness and a delightfully tender crumb. Out of a limited batch of ingredients, you 12 scones, enough to create 6 scone sandwiches with your choice of filling: a sweet slather of cocoa powder, sugar, butter and a dash of milk, evoking cake frosting, or a quick savory slaw of shredded cabbage and carrots, livened up by onion chutney.
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Millionaire's Shortbread
With layers of tender shortbread, rich caramel, and dark chocolate, millionaire’s shortbread is a luxurious confection worth making at home.
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How to Make Victoria Sponge Cake, an Easy British Classic Fit for a Queen
Layer tender cake with strawberry jam and whipped cream to make Victoria sponge cake, an easy, fancy-feeling dessert that’s perfect for afternoon tea.
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Quick and Easy Lemon Curd
This easy lemon curd takes just six minutes to cook and requires the most basic ingredients. Use it to make zesty thumbprint cookies, lemon bars, and lemon meringue pie.
This Classic British Sundae Belongs on Every Ice Cream Shop Menu
Featuring layers of vanilla ice cream, fresh strawberries, swirls of whipped cream, and a fan wafer, the knickerbocker glory is a summer staple at ice cream parlors and seaside cafés across the United Kingdom.
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How to Make Classic Cherries Jubilee in 20 Minutes
The only cherries jubilee recipe you'll ever need—it works with all kinds of cherries: sweet or sour, fresh, frozen, and even jarred.
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Eton Mess
With heaps of whipped cream, ripe berries, and crisp meringues that are just beginning to soften, this easy-to-assemble Eton mess is everything you want in a light summer dessert.
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5-Ingredient British Banoffee Pie
This low-effort dessert with gooey dulce de leche, sliced bananas, and whipped cream is a British classic—and is one I bring to every dinner party.