Your best Christmas desserts

[Bemyclementine]

Homemade suggestions for something really lovely please!

Nigella's coffee toffee meringues... not particularly festive but soooooo good.

My go to desserts are

Janes Patisserie After Eight Tart, ridiculously easy and a proper show stopper

Giant pavlova wreath topped with cream and mixed fruit

janes patisserie easy fruit tart but just with strawbs, so light and gorgeous always goes down a storm

blackberry meringue roulade

lemon cheesecake with ginger base or vanilla cheesecake with fruit coulis

daw a gorgeous recipe for a black cherry trifle that I’m going to try this year too.

Magnolia banana pudding , it’s so delicious. Banana layers with biscuits and a mixture of fresh cream , condensed milk and vanilla pudding all whipped together. Heaps of recipes on YouTube. Yummo

Home made Cranach is our one.

Vegan chocolate pecan pie and Nigel's apricot stollen recipe.

I always buy a mandarin cheese cake for Christmas desert but it never gets touched till a few days later as everyone is too full from dinner and chocolate.

I love cranach. Would you mind sharing your recipe?

The clue was in the title “homemade “
lots of processed stuff piled together doesn’t
count as homemade !

Placemarking !

And why have you picked on me..? Lots of other recipes using mini rolls etc... Are you having a go at them?
Bore off Nigella!!!

lots of processed stuff piled together doesn’t
count as homemade !

What an unnecessarily bitchy comment @Mrsgreen100

And of course it would count as home-made if someone has come up with the idea. They've invented something new.

Somebody got their Snob Pants on too tight this morning?

Thankyou ladies for your support... ♥

Well I certainly don't faff around making my own digestives for that buttery biscuit base. Or making caramel when I can buy a perfectly good tin of it. Or marshmallows, Maltesers, Guinness, condensed milk or any other 'processed' ingredient.
What a nasty comment.

I wonder, actually, how the word 'processed' is understood, in relation to food?

Unless we're all canning our own tomatoes and boiling down animal carcasses to make gelatine, I think it's fair to say that we all use plenty of processed foods in our daily lives.

Anyone with half a brain would realise that 'homemade' in the context of this thread means something that has been created rather than just bought as a whole, i.e. making their own trifle rather than buying one that's been completely made by Mrs Sainsbury or Mr Tesco, et al.

I hate food snobbery. And I especially hate ignorant food snobbery.

@Daffyyellow

Could you adapt this one?

Add some cocoa or melted chocolate into the cheese element?

You could also use chocolate digestives in the biscuit base.

Thank you @BIWI , not a Black Forest fan sadly.

Bows down to the glory that is BIWI. Bravo for this post.

Sorry @Daffyyellow - although I did link to that originally, it wasn't recipe I meant to post! I've edited my post to show the right one. (With some other suggestions to make it a chocolate cheesecake)

Why, thank you @RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie!

I'm very happy to use 'processed' food. I like homemade pizza with mozzarella but there's no way can I milk my own buffalo.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · Yesterday 17:07

A mincemeat and apple crumble. Or a ditto pie.
About 2/3 apples to 1/3 mincemeat.
This reminded me that I used to make something similar. Biscuit base, stewed apples and mincemeat and then topped with meringue, served luke warm from oven. Hmmm. Adds to list.

I think in fairness processed and ultra processed are quite different, the latter getting a lot of press recently. The detrimental impact on our health is the issue.

Here you are..

1 pot of fresh double cream.
1 tub of fresh raspberries.
Porridge oats.
Runny honey.
Vanilla essence.
Whisky ( optional )

Toast 3 tablespoons of porridge oats in a flat bottomed pan, remove from pan onto a plate once toasted to cool.
Whip the cream with a few drops of vanilla essence and 1 tablespoon of honey until stiff.

Put a layer of the porridge oats into each glass.
Place a layer of cream on top.
Place a layer of raspberries on the cream.
Continue to layer until the glass is almost filled, topping off with a few raspberries.
Pour whisky over the top. This is optional. You can use other spirits instead, but whisky is traditional, although you don't have to use any alcohol at all.

The glasses should only be small tumblers as it's very rich.
Place in the fridge to keep chilled until ready to be eaten.

Above is based on a small tub of cream for two servings, if more servings are required then simply double up the ingredients.

Enjoy.