Boozy Desserts Ideas: Quick Sweet Recipes For Chocolate Bourbon Tart, Pina Colada Pudding, And Spiked Eton Mess

If you’re looking for boozy dessert ideas, then you’ve come to the right place. Here are some recipes that work like a charm: 

Eton Mess

Ingredients:

• 500 gm chopped mixed berries
• 100 gm + 2 tsp caster sugar
• 150 ml gin
• 500 ml cream
• 400 gm aquafaba (water from boiled chickpeas)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract 

Instructions:

1. Whip the aquafaba until it’s smooth and creamy, slowly introduce 100 gm of caster sugar and vanilla extract.
2. Then scoop into four portions and bake in the oven for 1 hour 30 minutes at 110°C.
3. Place the berries in a shallow dish and soak them in 150 ml of gin. Let the berries soak for as long as the meringues are in the oven. You can even do this a day ahead and let the berries soak in the booze overnight.
4. Once the meringues are done and cool, whip the cream with 2 teaspoons of sugar. Crush three meringues and fold them into the cream.
5. Alternate between layers of the gin-soaked berries, the meringue whipped cream, and some more crumbled meringue for decoration. 

Pina Colada Pudding

Ingredients:

• 240 ml coconut milk
• 240 ml milk
• 100 g sugar
• 2 tbsp cornstarch
• 1 tbsp orange zest
• 1 tbsp butter
• 60 ml white rum
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 120 g crushed canned pineapple 

Instructions:

1. Heat coconut milk, milk, sugar, cornstarch, and orange zest in a saucepan. Keep whisking to ensure that there are no lumps or that the pudding doesn’t scorch at the bottom.
2. Remove the saucepan from heat and add vanilla extract, rum, and the crushed pineapple with its juice drained.
3. Pour into individual serving cups and let it chill in the fridge.
4. Decorate with some coconut shavings and crushed pineapple and enjoy. 

Chocolate Bourbon Tart

Ingredients:

For the tart base:

• 180 g flour
• 50 g Cadbury Cocoa Powder
• ¼ tsp salt
• 226 gm room temperature unsalted butter
• 100 gm sugar
• ½ tsp vanilla extract 

For the chocolate bourbon filling:

• 340 g coarsely chopped Cadbury Bournville Dark Chocolate
• ¼ tsp salt
• 120 ml bourbon
• 200 gm sugar
• 226 gm room temperature unsalted butter
• 5 eggs 

Instructions:

1. Sift the flour, cocoa powder and salt together in a bowl.
2. Beat the butter, vanilla extract and salt until its smooth and creamy. Then fold in the dry ingredients. You can use a stand mixer or even your hands to knead all of the ingredients into a soft dough.
3. Shape into a disc, wrap in cling film and refrigerate for at least half an hour.
4. Take it out from the fridge and roll it out slightly bigger than your tart tin with a removable bottom. Also preheat the oven to 180°C.
5. Using a rolling pin flip, flip the rolled out dough into the tart tin. Press the sides, and trim off any excess. Refrigerate for 20 minutes.
6. After this, line it with parchment paper and fill the tart shell with uncooked rice and beans. Blind bake for 15 minutes. Let it cool down slightly.
7. Remove the paper and beans, then bake again for 20 minutes. Let it come down to room temperature, then pop it back in the fridge.
8. Melt the chocolate and butter in the microwave and mix well.
9. Then heat bourbon and sugar in a saucepan. Don’t boil the spirit, but let it simmer until the sugar is completely dissolved.
10. Pour it over the chocolate and butter mix, then add the eggs one at a time. Mix well.
11. Pour the filling in the cooled tart shell, place it on a baking tray, and let it cook in the oven for about 25 to 30 minutes.
12. Let it cool, then remove the tart from the tin. Serve with some whipped cream.