What pud to serve on Xmas Day?

Limoncello and lemon tiramasu. Google the Gino d'Acampo recipe. Works perfectly done the day before.

lemon posset ( BBC Good food online) easy to make and light after big main course.

Thanks to all who have replied and given suggestions🧑🏻‍🎄😃 on easy to make or to buy desserts, I’ve made a list now to choose from.

Special ice-cream. If you live near North London, Caliendos Italian Gelato. They are based in Camden. It is fabulous and they do Christmas rolls and logs. Run by two lovely young ladies.

A lemon & red berries meringue roulade. (Purchased from a good supermarket.) Quite light and not too filling for (most) tummies after a Christmas diiner. No cooking - just keep it in the fridge - easy to serve immediately, when wanted.

Home made Christmas pudding with Rum ButterChristmas pudding and a Yule log.

Not sure yet but it will involve chocolate and orange double cream poured over it! Bought it in Aldi yesterday.

There will of course be a choice if Xmas. pud and brandy cream too.

ice cream (really good quality) and chocolate sauce (home made form real chocolate, simples.

A mincemeat and apple crumble is very nice, but we usually have one of those during the week after - not special enough for The Day, perhaps.
Ditto a mincemeat and apple pie.

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DD loves to do Café Gourmand as there are only three of us who like Christmas pudding.

I will have both! 😂😋

We all love apple pie so if i dontmake it i buy one from a special range in tesco or the apple tart in lidl is delish with icecream or custard

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As we usually do a Cheese & Charcuterie Board as well ..

We are grand fans of:

Apple Strudel ..
Fraisier - strawberry short cake ..
Tiramisù classic ..
Trifle with mascarpone filling ..
Lattice Pastry Apple Pie.

Of course, we always have 1800 Brand Nugget (turrón) both soft almond style and the hard rock style.

French Ferrer Chocolates ..

French Macarons - assorted flavours ..

We usually have trifle, assembled by the children in sundae glasses. I put bowls of ingredients out and they fill the glasses, then I top it up with bought "real" custard and they sprinkle hundreds and thousands. They have aerosol cream, we have a dollop of extra thick double.
Jelly is a great favourite, one of them just fills his glass with it.
My husband and I are the only ones who like Christmas pud so we usually have it an "action replay" Christmas dinner by ourselves later in the week.

It’s got to be my special traditional Christmas pudding, if only I could stop ruining my steamer by letting it boil dry and burn the base

Oreo Really simple but looks expensive - www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/tarts-and-flans/chocolate-tartlets
Made mostly from a jar of chocolate truffle sauce from M & S, and poured into (bought) pastry cases. It is even easier made in one larger case, (but with some filling left over, which can go into a separate small bowl to eat later with ice cream - or to scoff while cooking) I have used a couple of tablespoons of double cream instead of creme fraiche, since that is what I had in the fridge, and added a swirl of the cream on the top.

I have also also successfully substituted salted caramel for the chocolate truffle sauce, and added some nuts and dried fruit to the mixture.

I often think that the reason people don’t like the traditional Christmas pudding, is because they’ve only ever had shop versions - almost invariably so dense, dark, and heavy.

Home made are so much nicer - my old GH recipe is, anyway.

You can't beat a fresh fruit salad if your guests are feeling full .
I like mine Italian style - cut up earlier and a natural sauce of lemon juice and sugar will develop if left to chill in the fridge .

An ice cream cake :
Biscuit base made with digestives/ginger nuts and melted butter .
After allowing to set .
Take three flavours of good ice cream : the middle one being vanilla .
Allow to soften and make layers over the base .
Decorate as you like .
Always a big success !

M&S New York cheesecake, bought a while ago and frozen. I’ll add berries (also frozen) on the day. We’ve tried New York cheesecakes from so many sources, but only M&S gets it right.

The Germans don't know Christmas pud so I've stopped doing them. We're always too full up anyway. Whose idea was it to serve a full roast dinner and finish it off with the heaviness of a steamed pudding? What always goes down well here, though, is a trifle.

I was talking to my DiL and her mother the other day and we decided on a Christmas tiramisu, which you could say is like an Italian version of a trifle. I shall give it a Christmassy flavour by baking the sponge myself with extra spices like cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg and douse it in espresso (instant), with orange liqueur on the side. Mascarpone with orange zest in it. A separate version for the kiddies without the coffee and alcohol.

Alternatively I might just put the spices in the coffee and use up the langues de chat which I usually use.

I might decorate it with little candied orange slices or grated chocolate.

M&S panna cotta 😋

Sticky toffee pudding. Aldi is good but sells out early

Christmas pud from Aldi and chocolate log with custard and brandy cream. I make a nice Christmas cake trifle and mince pies myself for the week until new year.

We will be having an Aldi Christmas pudding, although sadly they have stopped selling their posh one scattered with gold. We will probably have custard and ice cream with it. Anyone who isn't that keen on the pudding can have a bigger helping of ice cream!

Pavlova is a lovely alternative to Christmas pud I think. I'm catering on Christmas eve this year, and then being spoilt rotten and looked after on Christmas day and Boxing day.