Liquid lunch

Pearl Bar and Restaurant's new dessert cocktails are aimed at sweet-toothed punters too full for pudding. The London restaurant's award-winning mixologist has joined forces with its head pastry chef to transform five traditional British desserts into liquid form. You can choose from rhubarb custard crumble, Bramley apple pie, strawberries and cream, lemon meringue pie, and raspberry sherry trifle.

It might sound like an odd invention, but there's method to the madness. The lemon chips for the lemon meringue pie cocktail are baked in a low oven for two whole days. And the apples for the Bramley apple pie (pictured) are baked in the oven until they explode and then sieved for an intense apple flavour. Deceptively clever and dangerously more-ish.