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Toonie
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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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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....Non me fac calcitrare tuum culi2
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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
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Do you have eggs?1
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Any porridge oats, cocoa or vinegar?
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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/£2700Grocery budget in 2022 £2304.76/£2400Grocery budget in 2021 £2107.86/£2200Grocery budget in 2020 £2193.02/£2160Saving for Christmas 2023 #15 £ 90/ £3650 -
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.
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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/£2700Grocery budget in 2022 £2304.76/£2400Grocery budget in 2021 £2107.86/£2200Grocery budget in 2020 £2193.02/£2160Saving for Christmas 2023 #15 £ 90/ £3651 -
@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.0
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I would suggest millionaires shortbread. You did say you had found some chocolate
Fudge.
Honeycomb
You could do a little sweet selection.2 -
@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/£2700Grocery budget in 2022 £2304.76/£2400Grocery budget in 2021 £2107.86/£2200Grocery budget in 2020 £2193.02/£2160Saving for Christmas 2023 #15 £ 90/ £3650
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