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12 recipes
Sticky Toffee Pudding
Britain’s most-ordered restaurant pudding: a dark, date-soft sponge flooded with hot toffee sauce. Invented in the Lake District, beloved everywhere custard is poured.
Serves 855 min totalEasy
Spotted Dick with Custard
The steamed suet pudding with the schoolboy-famous name — currant-spotted, lemon-scented, and impossible to serve without custard and a straight face.
Serves 6110 min totalEasy
Bread & Butter Pudding
Buttered bread layered with sultanas and baked in nutmeg custard until the top crisps — thrift turned into one of the most comforting puddings in the canon.
Serves 660 min totalEasy
Eton Mess
Strawberries, cream and crushed meringue — the gloriously chaotic pudding of the Eton–Harrow cricket match, at its absolute best in high summer.
Serves 620 min totalEasy
Proper English Trifle
Sherry-soaked sponge, fruit, custard and cream in a glass bowl — the towering architecture of every British celebration since your grandmother’s grandmother.
Serves 855 min totalModerate
Treacle Tart
Golden syrup, breadcrumbs and lemon in crisp shortcrust — Harry Potter’s favourite and Britain’s stickiest slice, served warm with cream.
Serves 865 min totalModerate
Jam Roly-Poly
Suet pastry rolled around raspberry jam and steamed until pillowy — the school-dinner legend known affectionately everywhere as “dead man’s arm”.
Serves 6110 min totalEasy
Apple Crumble
Britain’s most-baked pudding — born when rationing killed the pie, perfected by every family since. Bramleys beneath a rubble of butter, flour and sugar.
Serves 655 min totalEasy
Banoffee Pie
Invented in Sussex in 1971 and now a global classic: biscuit base, caramelised condensed milk, bananas and coffee-kissed cream.
Serves 8–1035 min totalEasy
Old-Fashioned Baked Rice Pudding
Short-grain rice baked long and slow in sweetened milk under a burnished nutmeg skin — the nursery pudding that divides families over whether the skin is the best bit. (It is.)
Serves 4–6155 min totalEasy
Summer Pudding
White bread soaked through with the juice of summer berries until it turns the colour of a garnet — the great no-bake pudding of the English summer.
Serves 635 min totalEasy
Christmas Pudding
Made on Stir-up Sunday, steamed for hours, aged for weeks, and carried to the table in flames — the most ceremonial dish in the English year.
Serves 8–10520 min totalInvolved