Can anyone remember this dessert?

[Imnotjosiegrosieanymore]

I went to primary school mid 90s and we used to have this dessert as part of our school lunch.

It was chocolate orange themed I'd say. Cut into squares from like a tray bake type thing. It was served cold. Had a chocolate crispy base, not sure if it was maybe Cornflakes or something similar coated in chocolate. It was sort of constructed like cheesecake, except the cheesecake layer was quite jelly like and orange Flavoured but not clear like jelly and a bit creamier.

This has literally bugged me for years because it was my favourite at school and I've never seen anything like it since and have no idea what it's called or if we had a michelin starred lunch lady 😅

Something like this? https://www.gourmandize.co.uk/recipe-48163-corn-flake-blancmange-just-like-school-made-it.htm

This is the closest I can find.

Oh this wasn't a posh place, very low income north eastern town!

I'll have a look at the links thanks ladies

It was firmer than angel delight but definitely had a wobble to it. I had no idea what a blanc mange is, and I think that's why I've never been able to find it so thank you! It definitely sounds like what you posted @AprilShowerslastforHours
I'll have to get my apron on!

@Imnotjosiegrosieanymore blamange is a milky jelly.

Years ago my Mum made a jelly based pudding with whisked up evaporated milk - jelly made up double strength with less water and folded into the fluffy milk then set .

There's that weird stuff made out of jelly and evaporated milk.
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/flummery

There are others with jelly and evaporated milk which are even sweeter. Tip them on a chocolate crispy cake.

Blancmange is like flavoured birds custard, often served in a rabbit shape on a green jelly, you can still buy it on Amazon, they probably don't sell it in the shops now

We called it Jelly fluff, made with jelly and evaporated milk. We got it served with normal jelly with the jelly fluff on top.

I used to make the jelly fluff years ago, I loved it.

hmm it didn't taste custardy. The pic on the flummery link looks about right for consistency. I hope it's as good as my 7 year old palette is remembering, I think a trip to the shops is in order tomorrow.

I suggest trying a chocolate cornflake base with an orange jelly to, made with evaporated milk.

Down south, I only remember plain cake, chocolate cake and pink cake, with normal custard, brown custard and pink custard. None was great. So I don't remember your chocolate orange thing. It sounds grim to me, but I am coming from the position of not liking chocolate orange, however classic a flavour combination it might be.

Blancmange (bl'mange) was traditionally made of milk, sugar and gelatine, sometimes with food colouring, so it wasn't always blanc. You can flavour it with stuff like lemon juice. You can use other starchy thickeners like cornflour if you're vegetarian/kosher/halal.

I'm now imagining orange blancmange, made with fresh orange juice and cream. I don't imagine school used cream, but you could make it posher.

This is ringing a bell with me except I don’t remember the base you’ve described. Ours was orange or pink blancmange with a dollop of squirty cream and a chocolate button on top.

We had a recipe for this at home. It was called chocolate orange crunch. The base was chocolate crispy cake mixture pressed into a dish then the topping was whisked evaporated milk mixed with orange jelly. It was one of my favourites. I've hunted through all my parents' old cookbooks but can't find the recipe anywhere.

Sorry, the base was chocolate cornflake cake mixture.

Yes! I’ve described this pudding to various people over the years and no one had ever heard of it until now!
The orange stuff was jelly with evaporated milk beaten into it - it wasn’t blancmange - and ours sometimes had a slice of orange on it as well. It was my favourite. This was up North in the 1980s.

My Mum made this, she called it Jelly Fluff. I presume it was a 70s or 80s recipe from a magazine or jelly packet.

yes, the base was definitely pressed, like broken up little pieces of cornflakes or rice crisps.

I'm so excited to see if I can recreate it! I'm going to try the evaporated milk and jelly first. Just need Worcestershire sauce crisps to come back next and I'll be golden 😁

It’s not traditionally custardy. It’s just jelly and milk. Sometimes evaporated milk if you’re being fancy (in the 80s).