Desserts, disappointing 😕

I find pub desserts far too sweet and sickly. I long for lemon meringue pie or maybe bakewell tart. I usually go for apple sponge or pie with custard but often there is far too much sugar in the pie.

When I occasionally have a carvery at a local, hotel the price of the carvery is £17.50 and then it’s £7.50 for a desert
Sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t. 🙂

I see from recipes that Americans often call cakes desserts. I’d call any sweet course a pudding and I love any pudding with custard.

I love all the puddings we had as children but rarely seen in pubs or restaurants. Jam Roly poly with custard, syrup sponge, deep apple pie, creamy rice pudding. My mum made all of these and more.
Hard work for her but we appreciated it.

Sister in law coming to stay on Friday. She always brings an enormous apple pie home made from the first apples from her garden

If have friends for supper always make old fashioned puds never any left

even non chain restaurants seem to do the same deserts. miniscule ice cream portions not always quality; sticky toffee pudding; cheesecake with a few chucking in creme brulee for the odd places

Those traditional steam puddings that you know are simply microwaved to order………I’ve seen the exact same in the supermarket………and instant custard too 🤷‍♀️ and they charge upwards of £6

Romola

Yesterday, I was with DD and family and we had a bit of a celebration because GS2 heard he'd done well in an exam. We bought some supermarket desserts: profiteroles and trifle. They were actually better than the pub desserts we'd had recently, but not as good as home-made. I like my profiteroles to be a bit crispy, the whipped cream cold and the chocolate sauce hot and not drowning the choux puffs.
(Although, this being Scotland, GS2 really enjoyed the melted MarsBar pud that he chose in the pub.)

I agree Romola, the supermarket desserts are often better than those in many pubs and restaurants. My grandchildren love profiteroles and trifles, but my grandson (aged 7) is passionate about individual custard tarts.
We eat out mostly at our local Italian and the desserts there are quite limited though they do very nice ice cream. Fortunately they do a really lovely apple pie which sounds boring but is actually delicious and is my husband's favourite.

I visited a Michelin starred restaurant in the summer and they had a very small menu and choice of three desserts:

Cointreau soufflé
Coffee cream type with coffee liqueur
Sticky toffee pudding

I cannot have any alcohol for medical reasons and as it was 36 degrees temperature I really didn’t want sticky toffee pudding so I had cheese and biscuits at home.

A very disappointing ending to a lovely meal.

Oreo

Maybe £40!

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You could buy some nice plates at tks, cake & good bag of coffee beans for that Oreo

I agree with so much written here, but I usually ask if they could make me an affogato - just vanilla ice cream with a small jug of hot espresso on the side to pour over. Delicious and not too filling. It’s so easy to make that I’m surprised restaurants don’t actually have it on the menu.

I was surprised a couple of years ago to be charged £10.50 for sticky toffee pudding. It was really only a slice of date loaf, topped with some toffee sauce.

Shinamae

When I occasionally have a carvery at a local, hotel the price of the carvery is £17.50 and then it’s £7.50 for a desert
Sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t. 🙂

Ohh must be a good one at that price.
Last one I went to it was £6. You could put your windows through with the stuffing balls, meat was cut like a fly’s wing 😂

Nicest ice cream I had recently was shortbread with vanilla ice cream at Witherspoon's £1.79

I'm still waiting for a good apple crumble. My favourite dessert, and I order it hoping that I will eventually get a decent one. They are usually overly sweet and seem to use a packet topping mix (too fine). The latest one I had was at an expensive hotel, and the apples were excellent from a local supplier and cooked brilliantly with a bit of a bite; but let down by the topping again. It's the easiest thing in the world to make, so can't understand why restaurants get it so wrong. OH (a chef) thinks that the good restaurants just overprocess the topping, rather than using packet ingredients. Oh well, will just have to make them at home, and not eat out.

I've never had a decent apple crumble in any of the restaurants I've been to.
The worst one was a sloppy bowl of stewed fruit with broken biscuits as the topping.
Home made is always best.

I'm always disappointed with restaurant desserts these days.
Desserts are my speciality.
In the past,I've happily turned out at least three for a party
It always seems to be ice-cream,a brownie and a synthetic tasting cheesecake -all bought in .
Recently, my Turkish friend is serving apple or cherry pies with custard in his cafe and they are selling well .

I remember desserts with school dinners were better quality. Unless it was tapioca.

Fallingstar

I remember desserts with school dinners were better quality. Unless it was tapioca.

My brother called tapioca frog spawn so I could never eat it again.

We called it that too!!
My best friend loved it all the same so ate my portion as well.

M&S do lovely crumbles, mixed berry or apple, with nice coarse crumble (in my experience), quite chewy and much better than the average restaurant offering,

Just watched, 'Is it on the trolley?' And thanks for the reference as I hadn't seen it before. Hilarious.

Desserts are very a important part of life's contribution to happiness. Last night at dinner (which our son attended) we spent a good half hour nostalgically reminiscing about pudding of old, especially school puddings. As mentioned above by a previous poster, what beats treacle pudding covered in custard? The son says you can still get it in the House of Commons for a couple of pounds.

John Lewis cheesecake is delicious but an inch and a half only at the blunt end and nearly a fiver. And our local nice pub eatery is offering a Crème Brulé for eight pounds.

Eight pounds! I paid that for my dessert blow torch!

This thread is making me hungry.