Pudding and dessert recipes

Esor

Thank you for that ginger biscuit recipe Pink-winged, I've saved it so I can try it at the weekend or something...actually going out to meet a friend tomorrow so might pop to Mr T on the way home, just have to force myself to write a list and stick to it!

OddjobKIA

ice cream babanananana boat

zarazara

microwave sponge pud with custard. yummmmmmmmmmmmm

afterglow_2

how about a diplomat pudding with tropical fruit, and a fruit coulis, you can use up any old cake in it aswell!!

Loretta

Pink-winged wrote: »

Hi vixtress,

I'd go for pavlova too. Or a recipe my mum used to make in the 70's:

You'll need gingernut biscuits (tesco do value ones which are very cheap) Dip each biscuit in orange juice then spread one side with whipped cream and sandwich the biscuits together to form two long rolls. Use the rest of the cream to cover the rolls of biscuits and sprinkle with flaked chocolate (or you could use your tropical fruits). Keep in the fridge for a couple of hours and the biscuits go cake-like absorbing the flavour of the juice. If not serving kids it's good to add a splash of brandy or whisky to the orange juice.

There's an earlier thread with lots of ideas that may help so I'll add your thread to it later:

Pudding and dessert recipes

Pink

I used to make this in the 70's too and I had forgotten all about it, my friend gave me the receipe. For some reason, which I can't remember now, you had to cut it at an angle and it really is delicious and looked very clever and you would never guess that it was biscuits stuck together. I couldn't cook then and this just suited me. I will make one tonight!

vixtress

thanks for all the ideas.

i have remembered my mums old pineapple trifle recipe and i think i might go with that. dead easy and super yummy. very similar to pw's 70's recipe

its the easiest thing in the world....

layers of broken ginger biscuits and pineapple. leave until the biscuits go soggy then a big layer of whipped cream. topped off with a crumbled flake.

try it, honest its divine

lilac_lady

If you add a layer of toffee sauce between apple and topping mixture you have.......toffee apple crumble. Yummy!

Stephen_Leak

ETON MESS

Serves 2

INGREDIENTS

450g of fresh strawberries
1 tablespoon of sugar
250g of meringue
250ml of cream

METHOD

Wash the strawberries, remove any stalks and chop them into quarters. Break or chop the meringue into rough 2cm (1 inch) pieces.

Put the strawberries in a bowl. Sprinkle over the sugar. Mix together.

Pour the cream into another bowl. Lightly whip the cream. Don’t over-do it: it should still be pourable.
Add the strawberries to the cream, or vice versa. Add the meringue pieces. Mix together and serve.

ADDITIONS & ALTERNATIVES

Use ready-made meringue, especially if it’s broken and/or reduced in price.

If you make your own meringue, this is the dish to practice with. If they weep, crack or even collapse, you can still use them in this. However, you do have to make it a day in advance.

For the romantic version, top with a large strawberry and offer this to your partner.

An authentic Eton mess uses strawberries, but other summer fruits work well.

However, even Heston Blumenthal has had to concede that Eton mess is "quite simply impossible to improve upon".

HISTORICAL NOTES

Eton mess originated at Eton College in the 1930’s, when a mixture of either strawberries or bananas with cream or ice cream, all stirred together (hence the name "mess"), was served in the school’s "sock shop" (tuck shop). One anecdotal story is that the dessert was ‘invented’ by a Labrador dog, when it sat on a picnic basket in the back of a car. With the later addition of the meringue, it has evolved into the unashamedly wicked, yet still quintessentially English, summer dessert. It is traditionally served at Eton College's annual prize-giving celebration picnic on what is still called the "Fourth of June", despite actually taking place on the last Wednesday in May.

leiela

My sister has invited me to dinner on saturday, we are both struggling money wise and i thought i'd be nice and offer to do the pudding so we where both contributing.

Anyway she rang up this afternoon and has told me she's making a lasagna from scratch especially for me as she know's i can't eat anything overly processed because of my diet.

Anyway this puts me into abit of a bind haha... love sister's dont ya.

you see i'd planned to let saturday be my cheat day for my diet but she's gone to soooo much trouble making pasta from scratch etc that i feel guilty.

My planned contribution towards dinner was a pre-made dessert from asda, you know a frozen cheesecake or something but now i kinda feel i should get my finger out and cook something from scratch too, you know i don't want to let the side down haha.

Anyway heres the catch im a terrible cook .... well thats not true i cook pretty well.. im just a terrible baker, i just never do sweet thing.

So has anyone got any IDIOT proof, fabulous pudding ideas??? something that looks great, tastes great and will show i made an effort?? (and hopefully won't break the bank)

xxvickixx

Tiramissu or Zabaglione might be worth a look at some recipes to stick with the Italian theme. You can make them in advance and serve in pretty glasses.
Hope you have a lovely meal, how thoughtful of your Sis. x