If you’re looking for boozy dessert ideas, then you’ve come to the right place. Here are some recipes that work like a charm:
Eton Mess
Ingredients:
- 500 gm chopped mixed berries
- 100 gm + 2 tsp caster sugar
- 150 ml gin
- 500 ml cream
- 400 gm aquafaba (water from boiled chickpeas)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions:
- Whip the aquafaba until it’s smooth and creamy, slowly introduce 100 gm of caster sugar and vanilla extract.
- Then scoop into four portions and bake in the oven for 1 hour 30 minutes at 110°C.
- Place the berries in a shallow dish and soak them in 150 ml of gin. Let the berries soak for as long as the meringues are in the oven. You can even do this a day ahead and let the berries soak in the booze overnight.
- Once the meringues are done and cool, whip the cream with 2 teaspoons of sugar. Crush three meringues and fold them into the cream.
- Alternate between layers of the gin-soaked berries, the meringue whipped cream, and some more crumbled meringue for decoration.
Pina Colada Pudding
Ingredients:
- 240 ml coconut milk
- 240 ml milk
- 100 g sugar
- 2 tbsp cornstarch
- 1 tbsp orange zest
- 1 tbsp butter
- 60 ml white rum
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 120 g crushed canned pineapple
Instructions:
- Heat coconut milk, milk, sugar, cornstarch, and orange zest in a saucepan. Keep whisking to ensure that there are no lumps or that the pudding doesn’t scorch at the bottom.
- Remove the saucepan from heat and add vanilla extract, rum, and the crushed pineapple with its juice drained.
- Pour into individual serving cups and let it chill in the fridge.
- Decorate with some coconut shavings and crushed pineapple and enjoy.
Chocolate Bourbon Tart
Ingredients:
For the tart base:
- 180 g flour
- 50 g Cadbury Cocoa Powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 226 gm room temperature unsalted butter
- 100 gm sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
For the chocolate bourbon filling:
- 340 g coarsely chopped Cadbury Bournville Dark Chocolate
- ¼ tsp salt
- 120 ml bourbon
- 200 gm sugar
- 226 gm room temperature unsalted butter
- 5 eggs
Instructions:
- Sift the flour, cocoa powder and salt together in a bowl.
- Beat the butter, vanilla extract and salt until its smooth and creamy. Then fold in the dry ingredients. You can use a stand mixer or even your hands to knead all of the ingredients into a soft dough.
- Shape into a disc, wrap in cling film and refrigerate for at least half an hour.
- Take it out from the fridge and roll it out slightly bigger than your tart tin with a removable bottom. Also preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Using a rolling pin flip, flip the rolled out dough into the tart tin. Press the sides, and trim off any excess. Refrigerate for 20 minutes.
- After this, line it with parchment paper and fill the tart shell with uncooked rice and beans. Blind bake for 15 minutes. Let it cool down slightly.
- Remove the paper and beans, then bake again for 20 minutes. Let it come down to room temperature, then pop it back in the fridge.
- Melt the chocolate and butter in the microwave and mix well.
- Then heat bourbon and sugar in a saucepan. Don’t boil the spirit, but let it simmer until the sugar is completely dissolved.
- Pour it over the chocolate and butter mix, then add the eggs one at a time. Mix well.
- Pour the filling in the cooled tart shell, place it on a baking tray, and let it cook in the oven for about 25 to 30 minutes.
- Let it cool, then remove the tart from the tin. Serve with some whipped cream.