Dessert

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Ginger Cherry Steamed Pudding With Sherry Hard Sauce

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Lucy Ferigno's Ricotta Cake

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Cranberry-Pear Bread Pudding

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Cherry Ginger Sauce for Angel Cake

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Brigadier Anne Field's Keswick Fruitcake

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Fluffy Orange Shortcake

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Honey-Glazed Pear Upside-Down Cake

This delightful cake emerges from the oven as golden as a pear tarte Tatin, but with a moist, cake-y layer that sops up all of the luscious pear drippings. Let the oohs and aahs begin.

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Holiday Stollen

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Dried Cherry Focaccia (From Ecce Panis)

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Whisky Sauce

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Poached Fruit With Clove Granite And Cookies

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Ginger-Pumpkin Ice cream

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Pumpkin Flan With Cinnamon Pumpkinseeds

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Valrhona Chocolate Cake

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Follonico Fig Cake

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Fig Compote With Honey and Thyme

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Mountain Cheese and Fig Calzones

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Chocolate Bread Pudding

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Hot Blueberries (From Jimmy Steinmeyer)

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Pineapple-Rhubarb 'Salad' With Basil Cream

This dish is more like a compote than a soup, but unlike most compotes, the fruit is cooked as little as possible so the flavors and textures remain distinct. The rhubarb must be cut very small to retain some of the crunch, but cook all the way through. Don't be tempted to cook the pineapple at all as the dessert would lose its fresh flavor if you did.

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Banana Split

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Pears In Red Wine With Ice Cream And Chocolate Sauce

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Guinness Cake

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Tangerine-Vanilla Floats

Here is a refreshing twist on a Creamsicle: a swirl of vanilla ice cream (either store-bought or homemade, your preference) doused in fresh tangerine juice and seltzer. Get an industrious child to help juice the tangerines. Their reward will be sprightly, sweet and satisfying.