Culinary desserts

This glorious Spiced Chocolate Mousse Entremet is absolutely delicious with rich and bold flavors that everyone will surely enjoy!

Recipe: Hinojo Flan with Caramel, Orange Honey Blossom Cream, Mandarin Gel, Orange Blossom Honey Crunch from Pastry Chef Ruben Ortega of Xochi in Houston, TX

If you ever wanted to know what happens behind the closed doors of a professional kitchen, take a dip into the first book from Michelin-starred chef Glynn Purnell.

For a beautiful dessert that'll challenge your skills in the kitchen, look no further than this celebration of autumnal fruit from Andrew Gravett. Dulcey chocolate, figs and blackcurrants are presented in the format of cream, compote, coulis and sorbet, with little almond sablé biscuits adding a crunchy textural contrast.

If you're at all obsessed with cheesecake, I think you may want to bookmark this Lemon Cheesecake Pannacotta with Saffron Orange Sauce for later. Blanketed

Toasted barley may not be a flavour typically associated with desserts but here Roberta Hall-McCarron uses it to flavour a panna cotta, which is garnished with an assortment of summer berries and buckwheat.

Compressed watermelon (or really any fruit) intensifies its flavor and changes its texture. Here, the watermelon is made to look like a tartare complete with a “yolk” made of spherified passion fruit puree. Mango would be delicious as well, or even a combination of the two. I added a thickened cream sauce with vanilla and lemon and drizzled that with basil oil. Fresh basil and lemon zest are also in the tartare themselves. A sauce of thickened coconut milk would also be good here. The…

These irresistibly creamy chocolate-covered Pistachio Truffles with Raspberries will blow you away! They look splendid, but taste even better! Our amazingly delicious recipe provides a much healthier version than the traditional truffles, containing only healthy unrefined ingredients. Truffles are naturally sweetened - we will use only 1.5 tbsp of maple syrup instead of a large amount of refined sugar! The truffles are balanced, sweet, extremely delicate, and delicious. And you will need…

There is a lot going on here, all of it delicious. Once you have the separate elements made, it comes together quickly, and is an excellent individual dessert for a dinner party.