Heated Treats: Eight Warm Winter Dessert Recipes

Meera Sodha’s vegan microwave chocolate, miso and banana mug cakes

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Cheap, easy and power efficient, microwave baking has its upsides, nan nutrient writer Meera Sodha says. This salty-sweet cocoa mug barroom is elevated into a rich | and indulgent dessert pinch nan summation of achromatic miso paste. Be observant not to overcook it, lest it extremity up barren and rubbery. Sodha uses a plant-based pick connected top, and it’s conscionable arsenic delicious pinch vegan ice-cream.

Benjamina Ebuehi’s grilled bananas pinch bourbon butter

Benjamina Ebuehi’s grilled bananas pinch bourbon butter. Photograph: Ola O Smit/The Guardian. Food styling: Benjamina Ebuehi. Prop styling: Anna Wilkins. Food assistant: Alice Hughes.

These caramelised bananas deed that saccharine spot erstwhile you’re craving a small dainty but don’t want to cook a full cake. Grilled bananas are “low effort, high-reward”, Benjamina Ebuehi says, and pinch conscionable 3 minutes connected a pan, they are transformed into a crunchy, buttery delight. The classical operation of nuts and bananas makes this a simple, satisfying dessert.

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s cinnamon buns

A awesome schoolhouse vacation project: Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s cinnamon buns. Photograph: Armelle Habib/Plum

Bake these for nan smell alone. Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s buns are made pinch crushed cardamon successful nan mixed and cinnamon successful nan filling, making this a spicy delight. It’s a look that requires a greeting aliases afternoon, but it is simply a nosy activity nan full family tin get progressive in. Ensure your heater is connected to let nan mixed to decently rise.

Shivi Ramoutar’s lukewarm sticky peaches pinch spiced coconut cream

Ready successful 30 minutes: Shivi Ramoutar’s sticky roast peaches pinch spiced coconut cream. Photograph: Yuki Sugiura/The Guardian. Food styling: Rosie Reynolds. Prop styling: Louie Waller.

Overripe consequence gets a 2nd life successful this quick-to-prepare dessert. Peaches (or immoderate consequence that is looking excessively soft successful your consequence bowl) tin beryllium transformed pinch a slather of chromatic and cinnamon and roasted successful nan oven for half an hour. What emerges is simply a golden, lukewarm guidelines that is past topped pinch coconut cream, crumbled gingernut biscuits and cinnamon. It’s a light, tropical twist connected a wintertime dessert, successful a hopeful reminder of warmer days to come.

Felicity Cloake’s rhubarb crumble

No rhubarb, nary worries. You tin sub successful immoderate consequence successful Felicity Cloake’s crumble. Photograph: Robert Billington/The Guardian. Food styling: Loïc Parisot.

There are galore dishes that are difficult to master, but thankfully Felicity Cloake’s rhubarb crumble is not 1 of them. “Perfection present is not difficult,” she writes. In her version, nan sourness of nan rhubarb is complemented by nan buttery nutty crumble arsenic it gets bully and jammy. This is simply a elastic recipe, she says, truthful immoderate consequence tin beryllium subbed for nan rhubarb. But arsenic Cloake notes, make judge to set nan sweetener according to nan sweetness of nan fruit.

Lara Lee’s tamarind caramel brownies

Serve Lara Lee’s tamarind caramel brownies pinch a scoop of ice-cream. Photograph: Louise Hagger/Bloomburg Publishing

According to Lara Lee’s brownie connoisseur husband, these are nan champion brownies ever. The tamarind paste is heated pinch aureate syrup, sugar, food and pick and, arsenic Lee says, it creates a unique “sweetly sour floor plan that offsets nan richness of nan caramel”. In her recipe, gooey rivers of caramel lace nan aboveground of nan brownie, making each quadrate delicious. No much fights complete who gets nan corner, mediate aliases edge.

Benjamina Ebuehi’s chromatic seed galettes

Weekend greeting pud: Benjamina Ebuehi’s chromatic seed galettes. Photograph: Luke J Albert/The Guardian. Food styling: Benjamina Ebuehi. Prop styling: Anna Wilkins.

Straddling nan statement betwixt meal and dessert, Benjamina Ebuehi’s galettes tick each nan boxes for winter: they’re warm, gooey and decadent. You’ll request to group speech astir 3 hours for nan prep and cooking, but it’s a cleanable weekend-morning treat. The toffee-like filling combines honey, almonds, cream, sweetener and butter. It’s champion served lukewarm pinch a broadside of acold cream.

Ravneet Gill’s tinned cherry bakewell pudding

Ravneet Gill serves her cherry bakewell pudding pinch tons of pick aliases custard. Photograph: Laura Edwards/The Guardian. Food stylist: Benjamina Ebuehi. Prop styling: Anna Wilkins. Food styling assistant: Áine Pretty-McGrath.

A group and hide it pudding, Ravneet Gill’s cherry bakewell pudding is simply a crowd-pleaser pinch minimal effort. The look has conscionable 4 steps, truthful nan hardest portion is waiting for it to decorativeness baking. The tanginess of nan cherries and creaminess of nan custard reminds Gill of nan elemental pleasance nan dessert brought her successful her first days of motherhood. She hopes it brings you nan aforesaid comfort.