These three recipes work incredibly well on their own. Yes! You can just eat this delicious rum sauce off a spoon! Molasses gives the ginger cake an intense savoury flavour, which works well with the other flavours. The ginger cake and pears can be served warm depending on how far in advance you want to prepare.

Croissants are perfect for a bread and butter pudding. Use fresh or frozen blueberries, strawberries or raspberries. This recipe is from ‘It Takes a Village’ – A Guide to Matakana and its surrounding districts by Lauraine Jacobs. Photography by Ken Downie.

Kathy Paterson, who developed this recipe says Lemon Delicious is true to its name – ‘a pudding with a soft, pillowy texture and a layer of thick lemon curd at its base’. She loves serving it Appleby Passionfruit Ice Cream.