To ask for a no bake dessert?

[polkadotpjs]

I need to make a dessert for 8. Oven just went pop so no baked cheesecake. All out of inspiration. Trifle isn't exciting me. Any ideas?

I think baked cheesecakes have always been a feature of Jewish food culture so they became associated with of places with large Jewish populations, like New York.

A summer classic, strawberries and cream /icecream

Nigella's no bake key lime pie
Mix double cream, condensed milk and juice and zest of limes and shove on biscuit base. I always make more base than she suggests (because of course I know better 😜).

It's the dessert I get asked to make more than any other

Lemon posset - so simple yet so tasty. I buy nice shortbread fingers or similar to serve with it and maybe some fresh raspberries on the side.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/lemon-posset-sugared-almond-shortbread

Nigella's raspberries in Chardonnay jelly, so fragrant and light!

www.nigella.com/recipes/ruby-red-raspberries-in-chardonnay-jelly

Chocolate fridge cake/rocky road/tiffin.

Melt butter and dark chocolate in a pan. Roughly break up some biscuits and stir in. Add whatever else you like - roughly chopped or halved nuts, glacé cherries, mini marshmallows etc - and put it all in a tray, flatten the top as well as you can, and bung in the fridge for a few hours.

I’m sure there are loads of recipes out there but if you get one which gives the right proportions for the butter and chocolate, then you can add whatever bits and pieces in whatever proportions most appeal (or just go with whatever you have in the cupboard).

Do you want to cook something, or would constructing something do (they call it semi homemade round here)

If you want to cook, try Delia Smiths pot au chocolat and whip cream with a little icing sugar and some amaretto

If you are happy constructing then tub of naice icecream, bag of frozen berries, some big biscuits and some crushed/chopped nuts

Soften icecream, mix in some berries, sandwich a big dollop between two biscuits and roll the edges in nuts. Then re freeze. Take out 5/10 mins before you want to eat and serve with large serviettes!

Banana pudding

Big bowl of strawberries. Big bowl of cream. Honestly, it’s just the best, easiest, loveliest thing.

Buy a pastry case, make or buy salted caramel sauce, mix cream and chocolate to make ganache and pour on top! Easy and delicious. Key lime pie made from condensed milk. Tiramisu. Panna cotta. So many lovely things!

Nutty chocolate Ice cream sundae

Melt 1 snickers bar per person over pan of hot water from kettle or use microwave in 10 seconds blasts. Add a little milk if necessary to get it to coating consistency

Put good quality vanilla ice cream in glasses.

Too with molten snickers mix and flake if you’re really into chocolate.

@GraduallyWatermelon - you just paste the dunked biscuits together using thick cream and then cover the whole think in cream. You can’t dunk the biscuits for too long though or the whole thing disintegrates!
The final construction is like a Yule log shape.

This is dead easy and delicious.
smittenkitchen.com/2017/02/small-batch-tiramisu/

Lime flan.

Make a biscuit base - crushed biscuits and melted butter - I use ginger biscuits which go well with lime, but you can use digestives, and make it lemon instead.

Line the base of a flan tin with the biscuit mix and chill it.

Mix a 397g tin of condensed milk with about the same amount of double cream.

Add the juice and zest of about 3 limes and whisk well - taste, and add more lime juice, if you think it needs more.

Pour into the tin with the biscuit base and chill.

The citrus makes the condensed milk and cream set to a cheesecake type consistency.

This is the easiest no-bake pudding I make, and it is delicious.

Banana splits! Ice-cream, cream, fudge sauce and some 1980s sprinkles!!

This is an absolute winner,

www.waitrose.com/home/recipes/recipe_directory/m/mascarpone___lime_torte.html

Frozen berries with hot white chocolate sauce - as served at The Ivy! Easiest pudding ever.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/iced-berries-hot-chocolate-sauce

These are show stoppers. Everytime I've done them people can't get enough. The below recipe is close - you don't the lemon. Just cream cheese, icing sugar to taste - whip together till fluffy. Pipe onto strawberry halves and top with one or two blueberries. Perfect for summer.

www.sumptuousspoonfuls.com/red-white-blue-berry-cheesecake-bites/

I had a really yummy “deconstructed banoffee” in a restaurant the other night. In a glass, toffee sauce round the inside of the glass and then bananas, cream and more toffee sauce layered through it. Some ice cream mixed through would have been good too.

What about lemon posset tart made with a biscuit base

Cheats Elton Mess

@Classica, chocolate blancmange is one of dh’s favourites from his childhood - I make it for him now and then. Very easy.

My DM used to make it, too, but we called it chocolate pudding. Very yummy warm.

You can stuff the pink sort, though - people used to make it in moulds and call it a ‘shape’.

Banoffi pie.

Tiramisu! No baking, just mixing and assembling.

Or Eton mess.

(Eton mess assuming you buy the meringues of course!)