39 custard recipes you must try

Custard is one of the kitchen’s great comforts — silky, nostalgic and endlessly versatile. From baked puddings and custard tarts to velvetty crème caramel, these recipes showcase it at its most irresistible. Will your first port of call be Portuguese tarts, vanilla slices, or a satisfying caramel?

Passionfruit vanilla slice

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Crumbed pork chops with anchovy butter and celeriac chilli remoulade

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Charred apple and custard pie on wire cooling platter.

Charred apple custard pie

Upside-down caramel apple cake topped with a hazelnut strudel crumb

Upside-down caramel apple and cider cake with buttermilk custard

Paul Farag’s coconut basbousa and fenugreek custard

Brioche apple custard tart

Yuzu and vanilla slice on black cake stands.

Yuzu vanilla slice

Hazelnut custard slice

Golden square tin holding hand-sized custard tarts with burnished tops, each in their own white paper casing. There's also a glass holding a rose-pink speckled bauble, which is kind of weird, but we'll take it.

Lauren Eldridge’s eggnog custard tarts

Rhubarb and apple pie with warm cinnamon custard

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Portuguese custard tarts

Spice Temple’s custard buns

Fried custard squares with ginger syrup

Phil Wood’s semolina cake with orange ice-cream and eggnog custard

Rhubarb and custard brown-sugar waffles

Alistair Wise’s custard tart

Apple-vanilla teacake with thick vanilla custard

Lemon verbena custard slice with passionfruit

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Restaurant Hubert’s crème caramel

Vanilla slice

Bourke Street Bakery’s custard tart with rhubarb ice-cream

Marco Pierre White’s custard tart

Heirloom apple pudding with vanilla custard

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