South african desserts recipes

Chocolate Mousse Cake

Making a proper Chocolate Mousse Cake requires skill, patience and lots of time, right? Wrong!!! Let me explain! To make a proper Chocolate Mousse…

Basic Baked custard

A tasty, simple and inexpensive dessert that can be made with a wide range of flavours and served with many different additions. Some of the…

Malva Pudding

Malva Pudding is a classic South African Food dish, that origionally comes from the Dutch, it is a sweet pudding, which is usually served hot with…

Cream of Sago Pudding with a Lemon Meringue Topping

Absolutely sublime! You will NEVER guess its sago you are eating! Combine cinnamon, & or nutmeg, or both if…

African 10Minute Safari Trifle

South Africans are very fond of heading for the bush and enjoying the great outdoors and because of this, many interesting and very creative meals…

Baked date pudding

A Cape Malay recipe as reproduced on I Africa "an olden time dessert learnt from granny." It always takes me back to my very young childhood days…

Chocolate (Marble) Cheesecake

Triple Chocolate Cheesecake

A friend sent me a bundle of chocolate cake cum pudding recipes .I am giving them for you to try as I need to be careful due to Gout which is…

Cherry Tart

A thin pastry covered with cherries and topped with a thickened sauce.

Cape Brandy Pudding

A traditional, Cape dessert (originating in the South Western corner of South Africa – the Western Cape Province – where the Dutch Settlers landed).…

Cheats Tiramisu

This is one of those easy desserts that takes about 10 minutes to make and is wonderful. The only drawback of this dessert is that you can't make…

Oatmeal and Almond Strawberry Crumble

The strawberry bounty of Spring meets up with the comfort of winter...crumble and comes together in a most…

Grandmas Milk Tart

A favourite South African Classic dating back to the Voortrekker days If you dont want to make the pastry use frozen puff pastry. This recipes…

Pumpkin Fritters with Orange Creme Anglaise

A giant leap from your ordinary pumpkin Fritters. Works well as dessert, after school snack or side dish…

Malva Pudding

Traditional South African recipe, originating in the Cape Province. This is a very popular, rich baked pudding - best served in winter, after a…