Fail-safe dinner party puddings

thriftmonster

HM meringues are cheap for a pudding - use the whites of 4 - 6 eggs (£1.20 FR), 8-12oz sugar, (about 25p) and a carton of whipping cream, whipped (80p) - save the yolks for quiche - or add oneof them to enrich packet stuffing to go with a roast.

Penelope_Penguin

I'll add this to the existing thread on Dinner Party puddings.

Penny. x

Toonie

Hello,

My boyfriend and I are going over to friends tomorrow for dinner and I'm making pudding. We'll be having steak for the main course and I can't make up my mind what to make for pudding.

The biggest problem is it needs to be easily transportable (public transport-around an hour). I had thought of making crumble (pear and raspberry-I suppose my signature dish) or perhaps a trifle (James Martin's white chocolate and raspberry trifle-I've never tried it before) but I'm not sure what would be best or indeed if there is another option which would be better. I am a fairly good baker (biscuits, cookies and cakes are my forte) but I don't generally make desserts. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

gunsandbanjos

What about Eton Mess?

Its not too heavy after a steak main course and it should travel well.

peb

DIfficult one. I have baked and taken cakes etc to work on the bus/train and they have survived but I have been nervous - especially with the chocolate roulade. I wouldn'd go with trifle - I once managed to damage a tiramasu taking it enxt door. I would have thought that teh crumble would travel fairly easlily so long as you leave enough room at the top of the dish.

Good luck - and enjoy....

angeltreats

What about a chocolate mousse? You could make them in ramekins and they'd be easily transportable.

Last time we had friends round I made some chocolate mousses in little vintage teacups I got from a charity shop, and put some grated white chocolate on top to look like frothy coffee, and made some shortbread fingers to perch on the saucer, like coffee and a biccy. They went down well

zippychick

Hi Toonie:hello:

Last time I was invited for dinner to someones house, I took a carrot cake made with this recipe and a few adaptations (no raisins, no orange flavour and with a cadburys twirls sprinkled on top). If you have the right size tupperware you can take it iced, or make the icing up in a separate tub ready to spread on - two minutes job. The cake is lovely on its own to be honest, but is apparently nice with ice cream

There is also a thread about deserts here

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the ideas together

thanks:)
Zip

cbrown372

your crumble sounds lovely I'd be happy with that.

zoelb_2

Ok I'm going to have to share the pudding I made last night. I had things going off in the fridge and I was proud of myself for using them up!!

It was a zesty lemon cheescake/mousse type thing. I'm so technical!

I started by crumbling digestives and hobnobs (pretty much the contents of my biscuit tin, anything would do I guess) melting butter and mixing the crushed biscuit in. Then I put this into individual ramekins (I suppose you could do a big one though) and pushed it down hard so it was really dense. Pop these in the fridge while you do the next bit...

Basically a tub of sainsburys cream cheese, I added a dollop of sour cream, then threw some icing sugar in (just keep adding bit by bit to taste) and then grate lemon zest in and some lemon juice (again, add to taste, I put lots in to make it really zingy), then I added a small pot of double cream (which I'd whipped up). Add anymore sugar / lemon as you wish. Seperate this between the ramekins, grate a little zest on top for prettiness and then stick in the freezer to harden a bit. Then on your journey they should just be defrosted the right amount to be ready after your steak.

They are naughty but quite light and refreshing so good after a big meal. Hope that helps. My boyfriend ate two and felt sick (in a good way) so they must be nice!!

HTH

Toonie

Well, I think I'll do the crumble. If the dinner was at mine I would do Eton Mess but I think the meringue would go soggy in the time it takes to get to our friends. Thanks for the suggestions and links (zippy, I think I'll try the carrot cake next weekend for BFs birthday-it sounds lovely).