Cheap, fast pudding

Mrs_Veg_Plot

Amara HM swiss roll (very quick and easy)

Line and grease a 9 by 12 swiss roll tin
whisk 3 eggs with 3os of caster sugar until pale and thick enough to leave a trail when the whisk is taken out.
Fold 3 oz of plain flour into the egg and sugar mix with a metal spoon
Put mixture into tin and cook on 220C 425F Gas 7 for 7 - 10 min

Whilst this is cooking put a tea towel onto the work top and put a piece of greasedproof paper ontop of it, sprinkle with sugar.

Turn the cooked swill roll out onto the sugared paper whil it is still hot. Trim off the edges and spread with your favourite jam. Roll using the teatowl and paper as a guide. Slice and serve with custard. Do not worry if it cracks when rolling because you can cover it with custard.

Chocclare I cook them before freezing them or I end up with a soggy bottom .

How about some small enamel plates from a camping shop, that is the onlyu thing I can thik of at the moment.

Amara

Mrs Veg Plot, thank you for your recipe! Sounds really easy.

pavlovs_dog

adelight wrote: »

Microwave sponge pudding: 2oz each of SF flour, sugar, marge, tbsp milk, 1 egg mixed and poured over 2tbsp of jam/nutella/syrup and microwaved in a deep bowl(cover with cling film) for 2-3 mins. Makes a nice big pud for 2 or 4 with ice-cream/custard.

i do microwaveable upside down pineapple cake - coat bowl in golden syrup, decorate with pineapple rings, if i have glace cherries in the house, i pop one in the centre of each ring. juice from the pineapple goes into the sponge mix.

whenever MIL comes round for tea she insists on this for desert!

and the best bit is, it can go from cupboard ingredients to plate in 20mins!

Ben84

Pineapple fritters using tinned pineapple are pretty easy, or sometimes I get a cooking apple, remove the core and fill the hole with dried fruit and a teaspoon of golden syrup on the top. Score a line around the outside equator to cut the skin (stops it bursting in the oven) and bake.

lovesabargain123

pavlovs_dog wrote: »

i do microwaveable upside down pineapple cake - coat bowl in golden syrup, decorate with pineapple rings, if i have glace cherries in the house, i pop one in the centre of each ring. juice from the pineapple goes into the sponge mix.

whenever MIL comes round for tea she insists on this for desert!

and the best bit is, it can go from cupboard ingredients to plate in 20mins!

may you give me an idiots guide to this please as I think my lot would like it but I'm not the best cook lol

tiredmum

A homemade pudding we came up with when my dd was little and very into pink and princess's.

1 packet strawberry jelly 20p ish
1 packet basics stawberry whip 10p ish
1 packet of dream topping- 60pish
plus milk required.

We would make it together like a trifle, jelly first, then strawberry whip then dream topping, maybe a square of white choc grated on the top or some sprinkles.

This makes up a large pyrex dish full and could serve at least 6, i say could because it doesnt go that far when my dh finds it :rotfl: its actually his favourite dessert!!.

lovesabargain123

similar to above ,my kids fav dessert is jelly made up with half water and half evaporated milk

pavlovs_dog

'idiots' guide to microwaveable upside down cake

serves 4 very greedy people, or 6 if you are stricter with portion sizes and don't let your OH back for seconds and thirds :rotfl:

take a large microwave-safe bowl (i use a plastic mixing bowl as it's big so the cake has plenty of room to rise). grease the inside of the bowl lightly with butter or spread. line the sides and bottom of the bowl with golden syrup (i tend to dribble it down the sides - some sticks, most of it ends up pooled in the bottom of the bowl). I stopped using spoonfuls as i found it wasn't syupy enough for our tastes, so i do it by eye, aiming for about 1cm deep puddle at the bottom). decorate the bowl with pineapple rings. I start in the centre and work my way up the sides uptil i run out of rings. If it's a big tin, i'll chop any spare rings and add it to the cake batter, along with the pineapple juice from the tin.

the batter then is just a standard sponge cake batter.
100g butter,
100g sugar (muscavado works best but i've used whatever i've had in with no ill effect. Muscavado just helps improve the colour of the sponge)
100g self raising flour
2 eggs
3 tbsp milk

blend the batter ingredients together, add it to the microwavable bowl. pop in the microwave and cook on high for approx 10-12 minutes. Cooking time will vary from microwave to microwave, but as with any sponge, you can tell it's done when the cake starts to come away from the side of the bowl and a knife inserted into the sponge comes out clean. you can, if you're feeling posh, put a plate over the bowl and turn the whole lot upside down, but i just dish it up from the microwaveable bowl.

serve with custard or icecream. if by some strange miracle you have some left, it tastes even better cold the next day - sticky, gooey and sweet

pollys

A chocolate fondue.

A good way to get the children to eat some fruit or use up fruit. I prepare the fruit, then melt each person some chocolate in a ramekin in the microwave - takes about 30-45 seconds. Serve and get dipping.

Pollys x

Amara

Ben84 wrote: »

Pineapple fritters using tinned pineapple are pretty easy, or sometimes I get a cooking apple, remove the core and fill the hole with dried fruit and a teaspoon of golden syrup on the top. Score a line around the outside equator to cut the skin (stops it bursting in the oven) and bake.

I bake apples sometimes too, but I stuffed them with walnuts or jam. Decorated with strawberries look sooo tempting

Great responds , thank you! Does anyone know a low calorie puds? Jelly is obvious choice, but anything else?