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Making dessert with store cupboard ingredients

Toonie
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edited 4 December 2021 at 2:19PM in Old style MoneySaving
Hi folks,

I'm looking for inspiration for a sweet/dessert/pudding to bring to friends for a Christmas get together. Due to losing my job I'm trying to make the most of my store cupboard and wondered if you creative lot had any suggestions with my store cupboard list. The pud is to serve four sweet toothed ladies and doesn't need to be a traditional dessert, just something sweet for afters. The only baking thing I'm not great at is making pastry.

Baking supplies

Granulated sugar
Icing sugar
Golden syrup
Honey
Plain flour
Self raising flour
Various dried fruits
Mini marshmallows
Hundreds and thousands
Condensed milk
Evaporated milk
Butter
Lard
Oil

Edit to add...will have eggs soon (this is for next week so going to get eggs tomorrow).
Grocery budget in 2023 £2279.18/£2700

Grocery budget in 2022 £2304.76/£2400
Grocery budget in 2021 £2107.86/£2200
Grocery budget in 2020 £2193.02/£2160

Saving for Christmas 2023 #15 £ 90/ £365
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  • -taff
    -taff Posts: 15,240 Forumite
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    Golden syrup sponge with evaporated milk - basically a sponge on top of golden syrup, like the ones they used to sell in tins.
    Biscuits would be easy, google for a recipe...
    You could make a kind of mincemeat with yuor dried fruits soaked in tea or alcohol if you had some and wanted to, making some little open tarts and a dollop of condensed milk on top or put them in a sweet bread with an icing top. Iced buns.. Muffins with dried fruits and icing top, or if you have fresh fruit, a sponge cake with apples chopped up in it and a drizzle of icing or golden syrup, a spotted !!!!!! and golden syrup....
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  • Nelski
    Nelski Posts: 15,197 Forumite
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    I would make scones (with or without the fruit) or maybe some lemon drizzle or banana cake if you have left over fruit

  • comeandgo
    comeandgo Posts: 5,913 Forumite
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    Do you have eggs?
  • skogar
    skogar Posts: 605 Forumite
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    Any porridge oats, cocoa or vinegar?
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  • Toonie
    Toonie Posts: 1,154 Forumite
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    Currently no eggs, but they are something I'm buying tomorrow and it's not until next week I'm meeting with my friends.
    Grocery budget in 2023 £2279.18/£2700

    Grocery budget in 2022 £2304.76/£2400
    Grocery budget in 2021 £2107.86/£2200
    Grocery budget in 2020 £2193.02/£2160

    Saving for Christmas 2023 #15 £ 90/ £365
  • joedenise
    joedenise Posts: 17,549 Forumite
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    Do you have any digestive biscuits or could get some?  Rocky road is lovely and very sweet.  Add some extra dried fruits instead of chocolate.

  • Toonie
    Toonie Posts: 1,154 Forumite
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    I have some cocoa and a bar of chocolate I found lurking in the wrong kitchen cupboard. I could get hold of oats and digestives, going to Aldis tomorrow and both might come in useful for the next month.
    Grocery budget in 2023 £2279.18/£2700

    Grocery budget in 2022 £2304.76/£2400
    Grocery budget in 2021 £2107.86/£2200
    Grocery budget in 2020 £2193.02/£2160

    Saving for Christmas 2023 #15 £ 90/ £365
  • goldfinches
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    @Toonie - may I ask about the kit you've got before making any suggestions as knowing whether you've got a particular size of pudding bowl or baking tin would mean that I wasn't suggesting something you'd have to improvise to be able to prepare easily.

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  • JIL
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    edited 5 December 2021 at 12:09AM
    I would suggest millionaires shortbread.  You did say you had found some chocolate 

    Fudge.

    Honeycomb 
     You could do a little sweet selection. 
  • Toonie
    Toonie Posts: 1,154 Forumite
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    @goldfinches I have lot of bakeware. Pudding bowls of various sizes, cake tins in varying shapes and sizes, individual sizes of lots of stuff, piping bags, cutters of all sorts, a sugar thermometer etc. I enjoy baking so have quite a few things (the only things I don't have are a food processor or a stand mixer-though I do have an electric whisk).
    Grocery budget in 2023 £2279.18/£2700

    Grocery budget in 2022 £2304.76/£2400
    Grocery budget in 2021 £2107.86/£2200
    Grocery budget in 2020 £2193.02/£2160

    Saving for Christmas 2023 #15 £ 90/ £365
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