Tis’ the season to get cozy and experiment with your favourite wintertime baked staples. But wintertime cooking isn’t only about hearty soups and stews. Preparing delicious desserts is yet another way to keep warm throughout the winter, offering your family and friends a decadent treat in-between or after meals, or to take with them to school or work.
Le Creuset’s Heritage collection is all you will need to practice your baking skills, offering both superior heat retention and durability for years to come. From a Holiday Tiramisu to our unique twist on Baklava, we have you covered with recipes for the whole family.
Here are nine of our favourite winter desserts perfect to keep you warm as temperatures begin to drop.
9 Quintessential Wintertime Desserts
Our list of wintertime desserts has been carefully curated to provide you with delicious recipes for the whole family. Each dessert can easily be prepared with pieces from Le Creuset’s Heritage Collection, exposing ingredients to a consistent heat source for an even bake.
Holiday Tiramisu
Our unique take on the classic Tiramisu dessert is a great way to ring in the holidays this season and make the most of your Heritage collection. While the coffee and mascarpone creams are not exactly straightforward to prepare, our Holiday Tiramisu can quickly become a constant at your Christmas and New Year’s Eve celebrations once mastered.
Our Rectangular Casserole is perfectly suited for this decadent dessert, offering ample surface area for you to arrange six ladyfingers side-by-side in the middle of the dish. Once the ladyfingers are in the casserole, layer the dish with amaretti cookies and rows of ladyfingers until the bottom of the baking dish is filled.
Finish by topping your Tiramisu with the cream and coffee mixtures and refrigerate before topping it with a generous amount of cocoa powder. Our Holiday Tiramisu is a great way to prepare a bakery-worthy dessert for family and friends in just over two hours.
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Lavender Roasted Pears
With pear season just about coming to a close, it is time to make the most of what’s left in the season and prepare our Lavender Roasted Pears recipe. This recipe is extremely easy to put together and can quickly become a wintertime staple in your household.
Our Heritage Rectangular Casserole is all you will need to prepare this delicious dessert, baking the pears for approximately 20 to 30 minutes until they are soft. The casserole’s tight-fitting lid is designed to lock in heat and moisture, delivering superior heat retention and even heat distribution.
The combination of fresh raspberries, dried lavender, and crème fraîche complements the pears wonderfully, offering a delicious dessert after meals. Our Lavender Roasted Pears recipe takes just under one hour to prepare from start to finish, offering over ten servings at a time.
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Pistachio and Hazelnut Baklava
Our Pistachio and Hazelnut Baklava offers a unique twist on this traditional Greek delicacy, and is yet another great dessert to prepare when expecting guests or when visiting family and friends.
The key to preparing a decadent Baklava is ultimately getting the homemade syrup just right. Our recipe combines fresh cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, lemon juice, and honey, complementing the baklava to perfection.
The Heritage Rectangular Dish is ideal for our Pistachio and Hazelnut Baklava recipe, baking it for approximately one hour until it is nicely golden. Featuring deep sidewalls and a durable stoneware construction, this versatile piece of bakeware offers home cooks and chefs alike ample space to prepare this baklava with ease.
This recipe takes just under 2 hours to prepare, but is well worth the time it takes, serving more than twelve people at a time.
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Cranberry Sage Slab Pie
Our Cranberry Sage Slab Pie is the ideal recipe to experiment with our Heritage bakeware collection, helping you prepare this delicious treat with ease. The cranberry and sage pairing makes for a great combination, while the addition of vanilla, cinnamon, and orange zest ensures your pie will not be lacking in flavour or texture.
Our Heritage Rectangular Casserole or Rectangular Dish can be used for this recipe, with both pieces of bakeware exposing ingredients to a consistent heat source. A pie’s crust can ultimately make or break a recipe, complimenting the filling to perfection.
Simply bake your Cranberry Sage Slab Pie for approximately 45 to 55 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown and the filling is bubbling. This recipe takes just under two hours to prepare, with the crust taking most of the time, and can serve between four and six people at a time.
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Orange Almond Cake
Our Orange Almond Cake makes for a great dessert to prepare ahead of the holiday season or for special occasions. Combining fresh oranges, almonds, and vanilla extract, this cake will not be lacking in flavour.
The Heritage Square Dish is best suited for our Orange Almond Cake Recipe, creating the ideal environment for this dessert to cook to perfection. This versatile piece of bakeware comes equipped with deep sidewalls, while its durable stoneware construction will provide superior heat retention for an even bake.
If you are unsure whether it is ready, insert a toothpick at the center of the cake. If it comes out clean, remove your dessert from the oven and place it on a cooling rack. Our Orange Almond Cake offers between six and eight servings, taking just under two hours to prepare, but can easily be adjusted for larger portions.
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Lemon Meringue Layered Dessert
Our Lemon Meringue Layered Dessert is the perfect dessert to combat the wintertime blues, offering a delicious treat for the whole family. This layered dessert can be prepared with ease in our Heritage Rectangular Casserole, embodying the set-it-and-forget-it-nature of baking.
Crafted with durable stoneware, our Heritage Rectangular Casserole will expose all layers of this dessert to a consistent heat source, ensuring your ensuring a crispy bottom and perfectly broiled meringue topping.
The key to pulling off this recipe is to get the lemon curd, crème fraîche whipped cream, and Italian Meringue mixtures just right, whisking all ingredients to perfection before layering the dessert in your casserole.
The Heritage Rectangular Casserole will take care of much of the rest, taking just over three hours to prepare from start to finish. In addition, its tight-fitting lid makes it perfect to store in the fridge, maintaining this dish cool until it is time to be served.
Watch this quick video for a step-by-step guide on preparing this decadent dessert. Our Lemon Meringue Layered Dessert can accommodate between 12 and 15 servings, making it a great dessert when expecting guests.
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Maple Syrup Rolls
Our Maple Syrup Rolls is everything you want in a wintertime dessert: Heartwarming, decadent, and ultimately quick to prepare. The combination of pecan nuts, maple syrup, and cinnamon make for a tasty dessert not lacking in texture, while the icing is a thoughtful final touch.
Our Heritage Rectangular Dish and Rectangular Casserole are ideal for our maple syrup rolls, cooking them evenly until they are puffed up and golden. Their dense stoneware construction ensures they can retain heat for longer, baking these maple syrup rolls to perfection.
This recipe takes just over an hour to prepare, accommodating up to fifteen servings. Whether you want a dessert to bring to a holiday get-together or simply want to experiment with a new dish, our Maple Syrup Rolls is a great start with our Heritage collection.
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Gluten-Free Pumpkin, Chocolate and Tahini Blondies
Our Gluten-Free Pumpkin, Chocolate and Tahini Blondies offer home cooks and avid bakers alike a healthy treat for the whole family. Combining sugar, eggs, pumpkin purée and vanilla, this dessert is equally delicious as it is easy to make.
The Rectangular Casserole is all you will need for this recipe, offering superior heat retention as the batter bakes. Typically, it should take approximately 50 minutes for these pumpkin, chocolate, and tahini blondies to be ready, or until a toothpick inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean.
This recipe takes just over an hour to prepare, offering up to twelve servings, and can even be packed away for lunch the next day, making for a convenient snack.
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No-Bake Chocolate-Peanut Date Bars
Last but certainly not least, our No-Bake Chocolate-Peanut Date Bars are yet another wintertime baking staple. Requiring five simple steps and zero baking, these bars make for a delicious and healthy snack, perfect for your Heritage Rectangular Casserole.
Begin by blending the dates, pumpkin seeds, nut butters, and honey until smooth before combining them with the chopped nuts. Next, spread out the mixture evenly in your Heritage Rectangular Casserole. Once the mixture has been spread out, refrigerate it for approximately 30 minutes until it is cool and firmed up.
The last step involves melting the chocolate and spreading it evenly along with the date mixture atop the Rectangular Casserole. The Medjool dates are undoubtedly the star of this dish; however, the pumpkin seeds inject some much-needed texture. This recipe takes just over two hours to prepare and can be served directly from your Heritage Rectangular Casserole.
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Our Heritage Collection is very much an ode to Le Creuset’s original designs dating back over 100 years, all-while introducing a variety of bold colours, including Artichaut, Meringue, and Nutmeg.
This stoneware collection is extremely durable, offering superior heat retention and even heat distribution for all your favorite dishes, including desserts, casserole dishes, and more.
Making the Most of Le Creuset’s Heritage Collection
Learning how to bake can make a world of difference in the kitchen, but ultimately requires lots of practice. After all, you will not become a professional baker overnight. As the old adage goes, practice does make perfect – especially as it relates to baking.
Le Creuset’s Heritage Collection is all you will need to pull off these recipes, helping you experiment with new cooking techniques in style. Whether you are preparing a layered cake, healthy No-Bake Chocolate-Peanut-Date Bars, or are trying to bake your very own Baklava, our Heritage Collection has you covered, simplifying baking. When you are not baking, the Heritage Collection serves a number of different purposes, including sharing meals, roasting ingredients, and more.
These were just nine of our favourite wintertime desserts to keep you warm as temperatures drop, but for more recipes and inspiration, visit our blog or dessert recipes.
