45 Fancy Desserts To Impress Your Guests

Make these beautiful, delicate macaroons. The French delicacy melts in the mouth and tastes delicious. They're a fancy and elegant afternoon tea or after-dinner light dessert.

Fraisier cake is a delicious traditional French cake made with crème pâtissière and strawberries. The light and airy sponge layers are filled with silky-smooth creme mousseline and fresh strawberries.

These Homemade Eclairs will wow any dinner party guest! The pastry, filling, and frosting are made completely from scratch. Making this recipe is a labor of love, but it results in a tasty, fancy patisserie dessert.

A tasty, pretty Tiramisu made from scratch. This elegant layered Italian dessert has a creamy mascarpone filling that sits between three layers of homemade ladyfingers, soaked in rum & coffee. It's finished with a liberal dusting of cocoa powder.

A modern take on the retro classic Black Forest Gateau. This fancy cake has four chocolate layers that are filled with vanilla and a delicious brandy mousse. The cake is then studded with Morello cherries and ganache drizzled over it.

French Silk Pie has a rich chocolate mousse filling, buttery, flaky crust, and light swirls of sweetened whipped cream. It's then garnished with a liberal sprinkling of fancy chocolate curls! A pretty pie that will impress anyone.

Pavlova is an Australian & New Zealand classic. It's a heavenly fancy dessert confection that looks beautiful. Pavlova is light and cloudlike with a crunchy outside and soft, marshmallow-like interior. This pavlova is topped with sweetened whipped cream and fresh fruit.

This fancy Chocolate Raspberry Dacquoise Cake has layers of almond, hazelnut, and pistachio meringue, with a filling of fresh raspberries, chocolate ganache, and a zesty raspberry coulis. It's all bound together in a raspberry cream.

This beautiful Cookies and Cream Cake has white chocolate whipped cream between the moist and tender cake layers. It's then topped with a rich chocolate glaze and Oreo cookies.

Kransekake is an elegant Scandinavian cake. It's a showstopping towering cake made out of 18 crisp almond cookies “glued” together with icing. Pretty flowers make it even fancier.

Earl Grey Macarons are a fragrant tea-infused macaron recipe. Vanilla bean macaron shells are filled with a delicious Earl Grey buttercream. This is a classic French fancy dessert that tastes incredible.

Marjolaine is a classic French layered pastry dessert. It's made with dacquoise (nut meringue layers). Crisp almond and hazelnut meringues are layered with dark chocolate ganache, chocolate whipped cream, and hazelnut buttercream. It's enrobed in a chocolate ganache and topped with fresh cream and hazelnuts.

This stunning coconut tart is made with a toasted coconut sablé crust. It's then filled with a rich, smooth, and creamy coconut panna cotta, then it's beautifully decorated with strawberry jelly, fresh strawberries, and toasted coconut, plus a sprinkle of pink peppercorns for a savory flavor.

Napoleon (also called Mille Feuille) a classic French patisserie. Layers of delicate pastry is filled with a rich cream. The name, mille-feuille, means a thousand leaves, after the many layers of flaky pastry.

Classic French Profiteroles have a light and airy choux pastry, filled with ice cream and topped with a warm chocolate sauce. A heavenly fancy French dessert!

Crème Brûlée is a French classic dessert. It's made of a rich, smooth, and creamy custard, topped with an irresistible sugar crust. You have to crack with the spoon to get to the custard.

Croquembouche is a fancy French classic dessert. It's made of a beautiful tower of choux pastry cream puffs filled with vanilla pastry cream. It's then drizzled with pretty caramel. A showstopper!

This beautiful Layer Cake is flavoured with orange and cardamom for a sophisticated taste. The zesty cake is sandwiched with layers of fluffy honey brown butter buttercream and garnished with dried orange slices! for a fancy display. It's light, super flavorful, and impressive.

This pretty Salted Caramel Cheesecake is made with a speculoos biscuit base and topped with a creamy, rich vanilla-infused cheesecake. It's then spiked with 2 layers of salted caramel. A showstopper that’s perfect for entertaining.

These Boston Cream Donuts are absolutely delicious. The classic American donut is made with the most delicious homemade doughnut dough, which is then filled with a smooth and velvety pastry cream. They're then topped with a thick chocolate glossy glaze. They're light and fluffy and absolute perfection!

These beautiful and delicious coffee liqueur cream puffs are a decadent treat. They're a coffee lover's dream in a light puff! They're filled with light coffee liqueur whipped cream and coated with a sweet coffee glaze.

Canele has a moist and custardy interior, which is sealed inside a thin, crispy, caramelized shell.

Create an elegant showstopping fancy cake with this Glam Black and Gold Cake. Perfect for New Year's Eve or a party. Learn how to make golden chocolate spheres, color black frosting, and assemble your cake in the step-by-step tutorial.

This pretty and elegant Rose Apple Tart recipe makes the most of apple season and looks absolutely beautiful. This fancy twist on an apple pie is spiced with cinnamon, ginger, and cardamom for warm and flavorful undertones.

These elegant, creamy cheesecakes have a surprise! Inside is a chocolate-covered strawberry. Slicing these individual delicacies open brings a smile to everyone's face when they discover the strawberry.

This Japanese Soufflé Cheesecake is fluffy, creamy, and light-as-air! It's lightly sweetened, with a slight tang. Perfect with a light dusting of powdered sugar, a handful of fresh berries, and a dollop of freshly whopped cream.

Hazelnut Cake with Stracciatella Frosting and Cranberries is a fancy cake with a delicious flavor. The nutty cake layers are sandwiched with a light and creamy frosting full of chocolate pieces and dotted with cranberries,

Spiced Red Wine Poached Pears are a fancy, classy and elegant light dessert. Pears are poached in mulled wine and served with a light and fluffy homemade cinnamon cream.

These light and airy French madeleines are flavoured with hazelnut. They're then topped with melted chocolate and crushed hazelnuts. Chocolate, nutty, fluffy and delicious.

This banana nut cake is topped with a tasty salted caramel sauce tantalizingly dripping over the sides of the cake, plus and a topping of chopped nuts.

Apple Rose Puffs are an easy-to-make fancy dessert. Apple slices and puff pastry are rolled into a rose-shaped dessert and then baked to perfection. Pretty, elegant and simple.

These pretty Mini Lemon Basil Curd Tarts are sweet, zesty, and creamy. They have a shortbread crust to compliment the zingy filling. They will satisfy your sweet tooth with a refreshing & herby twist from the basil.

Mini thin, delicate crepes are piled high, filled with creamy ricotta, and garnished with chopped pistachios and icing sugar.

This winter beauty is a Mulled Wine Creme Brulee Tart for a twist on the classic French dessert. It's an incredibly luxurious creme brulee tart with spiced mulled wine and boozy fruit. The gingerbread tart shell and cookie decorations make this tart one of a kind and extra fancy.

Make the classic French patisserie at home! These individual Gateau Saint Honore Pastries are not only beautiful, but they taste delicious! They're made of a puff pastry base, sweetened whipped cream, fresh raspberries, cream puffs filled with vanilla pastry cream, and topped with raspberry icing and candied rose petals on top.

A sophisticated take on the party classic! These jello shots are given a fancy twist by making them an edible version of a French 75 cocktail, a refreshing champagne cocktail with gin and lemon. They're then topped with some pretty edible gold leaf.

This beautiful cake is infused with chamomile tea to give it an aromatic, summery taste. It's gently floral and complemented by the salted honey buttercream.

Chocolate soufflé is a rich, light, fluffy and airy elegant French dessert. However, you only need 7 ingredients to make it! Serve topped with fresh berries, a sprig of mint, and a dollop of whipped cream.

This surprising cake is made with kale! The naturally green cake will delight and intrigue everyone from the moment you slice into it. You can't taste the kale, so it tastes like an apple cake.

This Persian Love Cake is moist and tasty. The sponge is made with ground almonds, rose, and cardamom for a wonderful flavor. It's topped with pomegranate icing, pistachios, and rose.

Doberge cake is a New Orleans classic dessert made of layers of cake filled with two types of pudding. This pretty doberge cake is filled with strawberry and pistachio cream.

This pretty berry-topped flan has a light and airy cake crust, coconut cream filling, fresh berries, and strawberry glaze. It's a perfect fancy summer dessert.

This apple-flavored cake is baked, then slices are lightly cooked on the grill or barbecue. This caramelizes the sugars for a wonderfully sweet and smokey taste. It's topped with apple icing and salted bourbon butterscotch.

This fancy Cookie Dough Ice Cream Cake recipe is all made from scratch. It has a chocolate chip cookie crumb crust, no-churn vanilla ice cream studded with edible cookie dough, a gooey chocolate ganache center and a fluffy and light whipped cream icing.