Useful ingredients for desserts

If you look round the kitchen, you’ll probably find ingredients that could spark lots of delicious desserts. If it looks a bit empty, top up your cupboards so you’ve got the basics at home.

Stocking the fridge for desserts:

Cream
Coconut flakes
Almonds
Nuts
Raisins
Butter
Eggs

Stocking the freezer for desserts:

Fruit: blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, rhubarb
Filo pastry
Fruit compote, apple compote
Cake crumbs
Biscuit dough
Pastry
Vanilla ice cream

Stocking the fruit bowl for desserts:

Oranges, organic so you can use the peel
Bananas
Passion fruit
Pears
Apples

Stocking the pantry for desserts:

Icing sugar
Oats
Good quality cocoa
Muscovado sugar
Milk chocolate
Plain chocolate
Cane sugar
Sesame seeds
Flour
Vanilla powder made from a ground vanilla pod
White chocolate