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Dessert ideas?

(29 Posts)
granoffour Fri 25-Sept-15 15:29:09

We're having the family round for a Sunday roast this weekend and I am so bored of doing the usual apple/berry crumble... Any other inspiring (but relatively easy) ideas for pudding? Luckily no particularly fussy eaters except for one rhubarb-hater (me). grin

whitewave Fri 25-Sept-15 15:37:19

Tonight I am having the family around and they are having their favourite which is apple sponge steamed pudding and thick creamycustard.
The pudding is basically a sponge using the creaming !ethod with half lemon zest and chopped cooking app!e. In the bottom of the basin is3, tblspns mincemeat with other half of lemonzest and brandy. It is gently steaming as we speak!!!

whitewave Fri 25-Sept-15 15:38:28

Oh meant to say it is a Delias' (sp?)

whitewave Fri 25-Sept-15 15:41:44

Another favourite
Is
4limes juiced and warmed with sugar and poured onto
1 melon
1 papaya
1 mango
Served with coconut yogurt

HildaW Fri 25-Sept-15 15:43:51

I often do a trifle for such occasions as its an assembly job that can be done before hand. I mix it up a bit - a Black forest trifle with cherries and chocolate blancmange. A summer berries one with amaretto biscuits and/or mini meringues on top the cream. Even a coffee walnut one with mandarin oranges.
Hand on heart everyone loves a big layered trifle when its presented!

whitewave Fri 25-Sept-15 15:45:31

I adore trifle

shysal Fri 25-Sept-15 16:00:11

It sounds like you are looking for a hot pudding. My family usually requests
Nigella's self-saucing sticky toffee pudding
It is very easy, and yummy!

If you are after a cold dessert, I can recommend the Nestlé Carnation milk web site for some easy but delicious ones.

tanith Fri 25-Sept-15 16:38:34

Lemon meringue is always a favourite around here or a nice apple cake warm with thick cream they go mad for it. grin

loopylou Fri 25-Sept-15 16:51:38

Tart tatin or Lemon Surprise pudding?
Served with vanilla ice cream.

Luckygirl Fri 25-Sept-15 18:05:22

You could make clafoutis - make a batter (pancake-type), stick it in an oven tin, drop fruit into it (cherries are good - even better if they have been soaked in something nice beforehand), stick it all in a hot oven.

One recipe I do is equally easy - make a victoria sponge mixture and put it in an oven tin, drop dollops of jam on it, put flaked almonds on top, stick it in the oven and bingo!

I also make fruit cowpat - this is what the children always called it because that is what it looks like! - it is basically a fruit tart, but you roll out the pastry, paint it with egg yolk, stick the fruit in the middle, fold the sides of the pastry over into a sort of mountain and seal it with egg yolk, paint the whole construction with egg, then shake brown sugar over it - into the oven - yum!

The syrup tart I make is very popular....into a pastry case put dessicated coconut and an assortment of seeds (pumpkin, sunflower etc.) and nuts, sprinkle with lemon juice, pour over syrup, put in oven - great stuff - and a bit Greek I am told.

rubysong Fri 25-Sept-15 18:42:08

We are having our church harvest supper tomorrow and I am taking pineapple upside down cake and crème fraiche. That might suit your family on Sunday.

suzied Fri 25-Sept-15 18:48:01

An easy one - a bowl of fruit salad ,strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, melon balls etc plus good ice cream, maybe some shortcake biscuits , everyone helps themselves , no problems.

hildajenniJ Fri 25-Sept-15 18:55:08

I find that a pavlova goes down well, it may look daunting but it's dead easy to make. I make the shell the night before, wrap it up well so that it stays crisp and fill in the morning. My favourite filling is whipped cream with soft fruit folded through.

jinglbellsfrocks Fri 25-Sept-15 19:07:31

Luckygirl DD made a clafouti when we were staying in a french farmhouse in the summer. It was delicious. I have just decided that she can make one for dessert this Sunday. (got the family coming).

Greyduster Fri 25-Sept-15 19:38:05

Pineapple upside down cake always goes down well with my lot. Easy to make and looks good too.

Katek Fri 25-Sept-15 19:51:42

Favourites here are sticky toffee pudding or fresh mango topped with coconut yoghurt and crushed ginger snaps. V easy.

NanKate Fri 25-Sept-15 22:26:55

I like the sound of that coconut pud KatyK.

NanKate Fri 25-Sept-15 22:27:30

Sorry KateK.

NanKate Fri 25-Sept-15 22:29:07

Or should it be Katek ? My excuse for all the errors is that I am still quite sedated from being in hospital this morning for a colonoscopy.

Youngeil Sat 26-Sept-15 10:35:00

Meringue nests (bought from M&S) with a dollop of ice cream
and some fresh berries and Waitrose raspberry coulis
are the easiest standby in my house

janerowena Sat 26-Sept-15 11:14:03

Treacle tart!

There's also a self-saucing chocolate pudding, but I can't find the recipe at the moment.

winifred01 Sat 26-Sept-15 13:08:33

Abysmal
Once made this, GS aged about 6 said ' Grandma(wait for compliment) this pudding is disgusting! Now grown-up I have not let him forget it!

winifred01 Sat 26-Sept-15 13:13:03

Sorry Shysal predictive text has changed you !

winifred01 Sat 26-Sept-15 13:18:50

Shysal
Sorry predictive text has changed your name!

fluttERBY123 Sat 26-Sept-15 14:13:10

Bramleys stewed with unrefined sugar and cloves. Add a dollop of ice cream - triangular wafer biscuits stuck into the ice cream.

Meringue nests never fail either, Youngeil, as you say.