If you had to do dessert for a family dinner...what’s your fail safe?

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I’m a bit shit at baking and responsible for dessert tomorrow 🙈😬

About 10 people

What are your safest bets for such circumstances?

Do you all find pavlova easy? I've never had any luck.
Let us know what you go with OP.

This is freaking amazing!!
www.dish.co.nz/recipes/best-ever-white-chocolate-and-raspberry-cheesecake

My Pavlova recipe
m.joyofbaking.com/cakes/Pavlova.html

Cook for slightly longer 1hr30 mins.
It looks better than on the pics..beautiful crisp on outside and marshmallows on the inside

Thanks for all your amazing suggestions...I feel like I should make them all

However, I went cheesecake....chocolate orange. It was pretty easy and now sitting in my fridge and I’ll try and put some decor on it tomorrow.

I think for a shitty Baker, cheesecake was the correct path!

Mission completed, thanks again.

I might try some of the other recipes when the pressure is less 😀

Cream puff.
One block of ready made puff pastry cut in half. Roll each half out to similar sized oblongs and bake for 20 mins until risen and cooked through. Cool. Whip lots of double cream and sandwich two slabs of pastry together with the cream and loads of berries (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries etc). For the topping mix a small amount of lemon juice (or water) into large quantity of icing sugar and mix until thick but runny enough to drizzle all over the top of the assembled cream puff.
It's honestly the easiest yet most impressive dessert in the world

Either apple and almond crumble or toffee apple crumble or sticky toffee pudding - all dead easy and really delicious. Impossible to get them wrong as they don't have to rise or cook for an exact period of time or hold their shape etc.
If you want any of the recipes, let me know.

@LadyMonicaBaddingham That's really interesting! Where did you get the recipe from? I got it from my mum (1999!) who got it from a teacher friend of hers.

V simple one is a mixture of strawberries, raspberries and blueberries covered with Greek yoghurt mixed with double cream and a little sugar ( or just the Greek yoghurts and sugar), sprinkle with brown sugar and brule the top.

I also do chocolate brownies with fruit and ice cream, bread and butter pudding, apple apple and berry crumble, or a mixture of white and dark chocolate mousse with raspberry coulis.

6oz each
Sugar (3oz golden caster 3oz light brown)
Butter
Self-raising flour
Teaspoon ginger powder

3eggs
2tbsp milk

Mix all bake in 20x20 tin 180fan 30min

Then mix
70g dark soft brown sugar
1egg
3tbso golden syrup

Pour over top and return to oven 10min

Gorgeous

Apple and blackberry crumble- really easy and everyone likes it

@BIWI It was a cut out of a Mary Berry recipe for 'quick and easy lemon cheesecake' that my mum had from a 1980s good food magazine. She made it once; I've made it hundreds of times...

I wonder if it was sponsored by Philadelphia?

I've made it countless times and it's always embarrassingly well received!

MrsA2015

Made that cake last night for dessert and it was absolutely delicious! Took me all of 5 minutes to make. The topping was divine.

Cranachan - bit impressive but really easy. Think BBC have s good recipe but it's basically whipped cream, raspberries, whisky, toasted oats (can do in advance) and serve with shortbread 👍 can serve in tunnellers or wine glasses. Yum.

@TeddyIsaHe SO nice isn’t it! I kind of made it up because I can’t be bothered to make an actual ginger cake or toffee pudding type thing. If you add 90g chopped pecans to the topping and pour it over a brown sugar shortbread base you’ll get “pecan pie slices”

Mini Magnums or plum crumble,

White chocolate cheesecake a la bitofabelly. I use a Mary Berry recipe though, think it came in the paper a few years ago. As long as you keep an eye on the chocolate when it's melting it's fairly easy!

Banana bread. I use the BBC Good Food brilliant banana bread recipe and it always comes out well! (Best with bananas on their way out if you have some browning ones left over)

Some of these are making my mouth water but it really has confirmed how fussy we are as a family about puddings! The DCs don't like cheesecake, I don't like anything with alcohol or ginger in or rice pudding, one DC doesn't like fruit crumbles. We tend to mainly have yogurt or ice cream.