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Easy dessert ideas

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mamaduckbone · 28/12/2024 17:30

Please help...

I need to make a dessert for a family party tomorrow. My dm is already bringing trifle. I was going to make a pavlova this afternoon but we had unexpected visitors who stayed longer than I thought so I haven't really got the time or inclination.
It needs to be gluten and nut free, and I'm determined not to do the default gluten free brownies.

I have:
Eggs and the usual baking ingredients
A can of condensed milk
Some white chocolate
Oranges and clementines
Cream
A shitload of baileys, so if that can be utilised then all the better.

I'm googling, but if anyone has a fail safe easy peasy recipe that I can rustle up tonight or in the morning that would be amazing!

OP posts:
Sockmate123 · 28/12/2024 20:46

Buy meringue nests and fill with fruit & cream?

JC03745 · 28/12/2024 21:12

@QuestionableMouse It's hard enough not being able to eat the same as everyone else without having to bring your own pudding too!

I was more thinking that the person with coeliacs/nut allergy might have ideas of other dessert suggestions that OP could make or bring something instead of the OP! I wasn't suggesting they brought their own dessert, just for themselves! This was before OP explained the relationship with this person. I wasn't trying to cause offense- just asking the question.

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mamaduckbone · 28/12/2024 21:16

SnowyIcySnow · 28/12/2024 20:21

It would probably need a shopping trip, or saving for next time, but I've done chocolate mousse for my gf friend:
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/instant-chocolate-mousse

I'll store that one up, thanks!

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mamaduckbone · 30/12/2024 19:18

I did a sort of winter Eton Mess in the end - made a lemon and orange fool with whipped cream, zest, juice and sugar, folded in broken meringues (made the traditional way, sorry @KnopkaPixie - I wimped out on the microwave meringues!), orange slices and dried cranberries.
It went down well. If I did it again I'd make the cream less sweet and more lemony if I was also adding meringues. It was probably verging on too sweet, even for my taste, and I'm a pudding fiend.

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KnopkaPixie · 30/12/2024 19:28

mamaduckbone · 30/12/2024 19:18

I did a sort of winter Eton Mess in the end - made a lemon and orange fool with whipped cream, zest, juice and sugar, folded in broken meringues (made the traditional way, sorry @KnopkaPixie - I wimped out on the microwave meringues!), orange slices and dried cranberries.
It went down well. If I did it again I'd make the cream less sweet and more lemony if I was also adding meringues. It was probably verging on too sweet, even for my taste, and I'm a pudding fiend.

Glad it went well. To be honest, the microwave meringues thing is more a fun cooking with toddlers trademark. Unless you find that 3 year old's snot and hand sweat adds umami.

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