What's your go to 'easy to make but bloody delicious' pudding or cake type thing?

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I feel this is something I'm missing from my repertoire. Shop bought desserts can be disappointing yet I often don't want the faff of making something that takes more than 15 mins to prepare.

I feel this is probably where Nigella's books excel.

Any suggestions will be gladly tested!

Lots of berries in a big bowl. Mix equal quantities of whipped cream and Greek yoghurt and dollop all over the top. Soft brown sugar all over the top of this. Leave in the fridge for an hour or two.

The brown sugar sort of melts into the yoghurt & cream mixture and goes all caramelly.

Eton mess.. frozen fruit from Aldi in blender, shop bought meringue broken into bits. whisk double cream and add a bit of caster sugar. I sometimes bung in a favoured gin for a bit of a kick. Takes 10 mins and looks great.

Lemon posset with raspberries (and shop bought shortbread).

Gin cheesecake.
Ginger biscuits, cream cheese, cream, lime zest and gin. Throw into big wine glasses and chill

I have a rubbish oven, truly awful so don't feel baking would show me in a great light when asked to bring a dessert item for some dinner parties I go to.

Echoing Lovelydovey lemon syllabub might be the most ridiculously easy dessert I've ever made and everybody loves it. Seriously, look it up! No baking, just a bit of heating cream up in a pan and letting it set in the fridge for a couple of hours.

I mean posset!

Bread & Butter pudding made using Brioche (adding the fattest possible raisins or pieces of stem ginger if you fancy) - always a crowd pleaser served with double cream😋

Bread pudding but with lots of fruit and plenty of eggs. Delia does an easy one which begins by just soaking the bread in the milk. You don’t need to soak for long or not at all if you bang the bread about but I always put at least 3 eggs in and a lot of fruit but don’t forget the mixed spice. Don’t even think of comparing it with shop or cafe product as they are usually wet lumps of bread contains the odd piece of fruit.

Tofee apple pudding for winter, and for summer, melt chocolate drops with cream, flavour with vanilla or something alcoholic, and serve with a platter of posh biscuits and fruit and marshmallows for dipping.

Alternatively, vanilla ice cream topped with cherries in genever and a drizzle of chocolate sauce.

This is my 'use stuff up' pudding.

Get the fruit that's past its best (last night I had rhubarb that I bought yellow stickered with apples that were a little past their sell by date). Stew the harder fruit, berries can be added towards the end. Add sugar and cinnamon to taste.

Butter the last of the bread, whizz it up to make breadcrumbs with brown sugar (white will also do), and more cinnamon if you want.

Put the hot fruit in an oven proof dish, cover with the breadcrumbs. Put under a hot grill to brown.

Can also be placed in the oven.

Serve with ice cream or custard.

There's a bbc good food recipe for white chocolate and basil creams with balsamic strawberries. So rich and so good. And easy!

Cakes...I second Mary Berry’s lemon cake and her walnut cake. I also suggest her quick flapjacks.

I may have bought mini cake tins so that we can eat double layer cake as a family without it going manky.

I agree with the pavlova suggestion. Ifor some reason the meringue doesn't work, make Eton Mess instead!

Alternatively (or sometimes additionally), Delia's chocolate bread and butter pudding.

Or baked peaches stuffed with a mixture that includes crumbled amaretti biscuits (only worth doing when peaches are in season).

Clafoutis and Eton Mess are both delicious and very easy to make.

No bake oreo and nutella cheesecake.

dribbles

Dip choc chip cookies in sherry,layer in dish,cover in shipped cream, repeat.

Oooh @beckyb123 that’s a variation on the best puddings my mum other did... only we stood them up and sandwiched them with cream and then covered them with cream so that they looked like a log/ring/cross etc.

It’s about a thousand calories a sniff but Oh So good. Also grate chocolate on the top.

I make a cheats tiramisu. 500g of marscapone whisked with 500ml of ready made custard.
Make some strong coffee, I use instant espresso, with a good slug of tia Maria. Soak finger langue du chat biscuits in the coffee mix and put a layer in the bottom of the dish. Then a layer of the custard marscapone mix followed by some crumbled flake. Continue to layer until you have used the mix and refrigerate until needed.

Becky my mum did similar, but stood up in a log, and she used coffee and brandy or rum to soak the biscuits in. It was delicious

Thanks to those who posted recipes (diet destroyed!)

Here is a one more for the diet conscious.
200grams of ground almond.
4 eggs.
2 ounces of sugar.
Beat together and pop into a shallow Pyrex dish or something similar. Put into oven until lightly baked on around170.
Heat up one and a half frozen packets of dark cherries (from Sainsbury’s) or raspberries or summer fruits but the cherries are the sweetest. As soon as almond sponge is done remove and pour the hot fruit over the top. If you want it sweeter you can add jam to the fruit or spread over the sponge but I like to keep the sugar down.
You can also put the mixture over fresh fruit and top with flaked almonds.

pineapple upside down cake basic sponge mix put the tinned pineapple slices in the bottom sponge mix on top and cook lovely with hot custard and leftovers taste yum cold as slice of cake

Lemon posset, chocolate pots, tarte au abricots/prune. Sophie grigson/ nigella very helpful!

Ice cream- condensed milk, cream, vanilla extract, mix . Freeze.