19 Desserts to Make When You’re Feeling Fancy AF
Life is about balance, right? Some days we wear cut offs and eat BBQ and some days we dress up for a five star meal. These recipes are for those days when you’re feeling fancy, and they’re even better for a crowd!
Wow your friends and family at the dinner table with a truly show-stopping dessert, perfect for parties or even those days when you’re just feeling yourself. You deserve it!
Ombre Rosette Cake
This step-by-step guide gives you the instructions to turn any homemade cake into an ombre rosette cake. It includes instructions for the frosting and tips for getting those gorgeous shades on this viral instagram cake!
Ginger Layer Cake with Poached Pears
This layered cake is spiced with ginger, cinnamon and cloves, and is layered with wine-poached pears and cream cheese frosting. How utterly decadent! This one is great to make during fall and winter.
Matcha Tiramisu
Different styles of tiramisu have been quite trendy lately! Try this one that’s flavored with Matcha (a highly concentrated, powdered form of green tea). It has layers of matcha syrup, matcha cake, and matcha cream.
Chocolate Covered Strawberry Mini Cheesecakes
These mini cheesecakes are light and fluffy – a different take on the typical dense and creamy cheesecake. They’re topped with strawberries and the option of a hard chocolate shell or ganache.
Brown Sugar Pavlova with Caramelized Peaches
These pavlovas are made with Demerara sugar, which gives it a smoky butterscotch, almost bourbon flavor. It’s topped with caramelized peaches and whipped cream. So decadent!
Vitamin C Hibiscus Rose Hip Marshmallows
These homemade, real food marshmallows have flavors of hibiscus and rose hip. The hibiscus, though naturally bitter in flavor, adds a delicate floral note to super sweet marshmallows.
Mont Blanc Chocolate Pavlova
This fancy dessert is a combination of a chocolate pavlova and Mont Blanc dessert. It even has a recipe for a homemade chestnut purée!
Mexican Chocolate Trifle with Orange Curd and Pomegranate Pudding
This trifle has a brownie base with cinnamon and red chile, cinnamon orange curd and a pomegranate pudding. It’s topped with whipped cream, orange zest, cinnamon, pomegranate arils and shaved chocolate.
Blueberry Lavender Mini Cheesecakes
A homemade blueberry lavender syrup gets mixed with cheesecake batter in these blueberry lavender mini cheesecakes. They’re light, fluffy, floral and sweet.
Dark Chocolate Tarts with Apricots
Believe it or not, these tarts are vegan! They use almond and oat flour to make a base, then are filled with a vegan chocolate ganache and topped with apricots.
Pink Champagne Cake
This fancy cake has three layers of pink champagne cake with classic vanilla buttercream and white sparkles all over.
Mixed Berry Pavlova
Classic pavlova topped with whipped cream, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and raspberries. Then it’s garnished with some fresh mint.
Melting Chocolate Ball Dessert
Try that viral melting chocolate ball dessert! Stacked brownies, fruit and ice cream is covered with a chocolate ball, which melts under hot fudge sauce.
Thandai Cheesecake
This no bake cheesecake has an oreo and waffle crust and is flavored with thandai masala, a cold Indian drink associated with Holi.
Black Forest Cake
This decadent Black Forest Cake has layers of rich chocolate cake, cherry liqueur, fresh cherries and whipped cream frosting. And that chocolate bark and chocolate shaving garnish is oh-so-fabulous!
Grilled Pound Cake with Bananas and Limoncello
Calling all folks riding solo! This fancy dessert serves one. It has two slices of grilled pound cake, grilled bananas, limoncello and mascarpone cream.
Chocolate Kahlua Cupcakes
Chocolate cupcakes with malted milk and coffee topped with a kahlua buttercream and a boozy chocolate ganache. Perfect for a fancy coffee lover!
Cheat’s Danish Apple Cake
This traditional Danish dessert has layers of stewed apples, oaty biscuits, whipped cream and chocolate shavings!
Key Lime Mousse Tart
Try this key lime mousse tart! It has a nilla wafer and coconut crust, key lime filing, and it’s topped with whipped cream, lime, and flaked coconut. Perfect for summer!
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