What is the Lobster of Pudding?

[MissKittyFantastico84]

Ok, weird thread title but...

I asked this question the other day and no one really cared to answer but - what would you say is the lobster/steak of pudding?

The always high end option? The one you choose when pushing the boat out? Am I right in thinking that there.... might not be one?

I would say starter would be oysters/cavier etc... but pudding?

You have you chocolate melty bomb thing but that's a bit M&S/microwave pud now....

Thoughts?

Creme brulee, is kinda fancy.

Whenever I’ve seen anyone in a restaurant have steak they always have chocolate soufflé for dessert!

Crepes suzette?

Soufflé

Crepes suzette

Agree crime brûlée or soufflé

Soufflé simply because it’s such an arse to do properly

Proper home made Baked Alaska, every time.

Yes a souffle I reckon. Needs to be cooked just before eating, can't really be recreated easily at home, high potential for fucking it up.

Snap!

Soufflé is a good shout. A proper one (ie not a Gu type thing) is such a faff to make.

Surely it's queen of puddings? Clue is in the name!

croquembouche so big it has to be wheeled in.

I came on to say crepes suzette too!

Tiramisu. None are bad but a really good one can be the pinnacle of puddings.

I guess the reason there’s no equivalent is because lobster/caviar/steak are natural products that aren’t very easy or simple to obtain and arrive at your plate pretty much unaltered from their natural state (besides being cooked). There’s nothing like that in the dessert world, as long as you’ve got the ingredients (which are usually things you can buy in a supermarket) you can make pretty much anything. So then the high price tag comes from the ingredients being the especially fancy pants versions, or because the patisserie chef is exceptionally skilled - someone like Cedric Grolet for example.

Tiramisu

I had a blackcurrant souffle with a fennel foam thing recently, that felt pretty fancy!

My 12 year old self in the 90s would say viennetta

Affogato is simple but stylish, with a cantuccini biscuit and a shot glass of amaretto on the side

A posset has a bit of 'dusty mansion, old money' feel about it. Probably served with some sort of sablé biscuit.

This is my ideal pudding... I'm feeling fairly fancy right now.

Souffle with the sauce poured in for you, or something cooked at the table side (I know its old school, but I love it) like cherries Jubilee or Bananas Foster. It has to be something way too much effort to do at home.
We went to a vair nice restaurant recently and had chocolate souffle and then chose from the cheese trolley which had 20+ cheeses plus all the bits and that was totally like a lobster end of the meal

Agree crime brûlée or soufflé

I love the sound of a crime brûlée 😄.

I really like a good creme brûlée or tarte tatin. I had a pear one once and it was delicious.

Soufflé. I don’t like it but it has be soufflé.

My favourite - though not the point of the thread - is tiramisu. I can’t talk about dessert without extolling it’s wonders. I consider it pretty common though.