Not Christmas Pudding

I’ve mentioned my Black Forest trifle before.
Chocolate sponge/cake base.
Soak with gently heated cherry compote and alcohol. I use amaretto or sherry. Top with defrosted cherries.
I don’t like custard, so I use jelly fluff for next layer. Use a red jelly.
Top with whipped cream and sprinkle with crushed chocolate flake or grated chocolate.

Ziplok

Witzend what does the IIRC abbreviation mean please? I’m sure I know, but can’t bring it to mind, and it’s puzzling me 😁.

If I recall correctly….

Chocolate chip cookie log.
Dip chocolate chip cookies in sherry, and sandwich together with sweetened whipped cream. Cover in more whipped cream and crumble a chocolate flake over the top. Refrigerate overnight.

Mary Berry recipe for ginger traybake, which can be then cut into squares and iced;
Or just buy mince pies, warm them , and serve with icecream!

Eaton mess…sort of…heat up strawberries with some sugar till they soften , let cool down. Crumble and layer meringues into tall glasses with spoonfuls of the fruit, with berry coulis and add some shortbread crumbs on the top…quick, easy, tasty

grandMattie - that sounds fantastic .
I didn't think of adding marzipan when making apricots in puff pastry .

Puff pastry with apricots, the hole filled with marzipan and sugar sprinkled on top. Easy and delicious served with the usual cream, ice cream, yoghurt or all three…

My biggest cheat -buy a Victoria sponge from Iceland -from the freezer cabinet .
Wash a punnet of raspberries and wash and cut up a punnet of strawbwrries .
Marinade Italian style in a little lemon juice to which you've added white sugar .Leave in the fridge and it will make a sauce around the fruit .
Taste .
Assemble before you serve - spilt the cake and layer on whipped cream under the fruit

Hide the tell tale packet .
Have a large glass of wine
And try not to look like the lady from the old Birds Eye chicken pie ad .

Yesterday we had panna cotta.

I don’t think that there is an easier desert. You can add any sort of flavouring and perhaps a fruit compote or fresh berries.

We have Chocolate Panatonne Pudding as an alternative for those who don’t like traditional Christmas pudding. Easy to make and can be baked earlier sand warmed through.

When we sold mi Casa last year I insisted my drinks cabinet was transported along with my Handyman’s tools which means a bottle of Grenadine has been lolling awaiting use!

Last month I trialled a version of tiramisu, soaking the sponge fingers in it and layering up with mascarpone and pomegranate seeds - ‘twas lishus😋

M&S do a Best Ever trifle with compote instead of jelly, which is lovely. I had a trial run of replicating it last week which was even nicer, and so easy!
I made a compote with a pack of frozen summer fruits. Looked up method on line, very easy. Added some thin slices of bought cherry cake, then a pint of custard from Bird's powder. Finished with whipped Elmlea light double cream. For visitors I would top with toasted almond flakes and/or glace cherries.

Ziplok

Witzend what does the IIRC abbreviation mean please? I’m sure I know, but can’t bring it to mind, and it’s puzzling me 😁.

If I Remember Correctly.

Treacle pudding, using the wartime recipe where you bake it in the oven, rather than steaming it.

Fruit, raspberries, satsumas, bananas, tinned (anything you have on the shelf) on shop-bought (or home-made) meringue nests and topped with ice cream or cream or both.

Mine is incredibly quick. I've ordered a ready made trifle on my ocado order

maybe trifle or some posh ice cream though I must admit Vienetta is nice as a pudding!

Witzend what does the IIRC abbreviation mean please? I’m sure I know, but can’t bring it to mind, and it’s puzzling me 😁.

TerriBull

I really love triffle so does other half. Problem family members of the younger variety don't like it, don't like Christmas pudding, plus one is gluten free. So am always having to come up with suitable alternatives.

Not everybody invariably likes cream, either. Yes, I know we’re weird, but there are probably more of us than many people imagine. I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s had to pretend not to be bothered when a hostess has gone to a lot of trouble to make 2 or 3 amazing looking puddings - all of them slathered with cream!
I really wish I did like it, they always look delicious, but…

With regard to trifle - I am experimenting this year as some family member love trifle, others like bits of it. So I’m making separate jelly, custard, sponge fingers soaked in something or other (probably fruit juice) cream and sprinkles so each person can make up their own bowl.
I’ll make a fruit salad too, which will be part of the pic’n’mix.

I really love triffle so does other half. Problem family members of the younger variety don't like it, don't like Christmas pudding, plus one is gluten free. So am always having to come up with suitable alternatives.

Can’t go wrong with trifle. My family demand it.

There are some lovely jars of compote around, particularly made of cherries. Make or buy some meringues, assemble with whipped cream or ice cream, top with compote.

Tin of apricots chopped up to bite size.

Whipped cream on top of them.

Cornflakes rolled in brown sugar melted in butter on top of that.

Swedish Apricot. Never fails.

Yes. Trifle.