To ask what you would serve for pudding at home?

[DessertHunter]

Looking for inspiration - also originally from another European country (married to a Scot), so probably missing out on some nice things! 😁

We usually have pudding after dinner but I am running a little low on ideas. My family always served very 70s style desserts and I have just carried on with it - so fruit (fresh if in season, preserved if not), chocolate pudding, rice pudding, ice cream, jelly, some trifle-like concoctions based on "that is what we have in and I am not going to the shops".

No real input from DH or his family, there is a lot of neurodiversity on that side so food is a bit of a tricky topic for most of them. TTC but will probably need IVF, so children not an immediate consideration.

No cake or biscuits after dinner, as that is a whole other meal where I am from and I can't get my head around combining them with cooked food. It is what you eat with your colleagues, while you ignore work for an hour, or with your family, while you ignore housework for much longer than an hour, and that is a hill I'm willing to die on!

Google has failed me so wise Mumsnetters, what are your day-to-day puddings I should give a try? Tell me what I'm missing out on! Also, I still don't understand cheese boards, despite having tried very hard.

Also, this being MN, I'm sure I'll get "we don't eat pudding" within the first 5 posts - good for you, keep living your happy life and I'll keep my lowkey hedonism going 😉

Crumble!

DH and I love homemade meringues. Once you’ve cracked it, they’re dead easy to make and a million times better than the dusty shop bought ones. Meringue with a little sweetened whipped cream and whatever fruit is in season is heaven!

My teenage sons love yogurts but if I'm doing a roast dinner its usually crumble ❤️

First post nailed it!

Apple crumble, blackberry crumble, rhubarb crumble....😁

Eston Mess is popular here too.

What about cheesecake, does that count as cake.

Yes - crumble!
My mum makes a lovely rhubarb fool at this time of year.

We often have a Vienetta after a roast here. Reminds me of my childhood! Always felt special somehow and yet you can pick one up in Tesco for less that £2!

Day to day, my kids always have some fruit, then there are yoghurts or mini chocolate bars.

Thanks for the suggestions thus far! Crumble and meringues count as cake in my head but @GrumpyBarsteward reminded me that I have an ice cream recipe that needs a lot of egg yolks and I used to make mini lemon meringues with the egg whites - that is next weekend's afternoon treat sorted, thank you!

Crumble, fruit pie, cake

Crumble , banoffee pie, cranachan, queen of puddings, self saucing puddings ( chocolate or lemon).

Pavlova, tiramisu, fruit pie or tarts.

crumble
fruit salad

Chocolate mousse.

Simple recipe: 2oz Chocolate (1oz 85%, 1 oz 30% is what I use) and 1 egg per person.

Melt chocolate. Whisk egg whites til stiff. Allow chocolate to cool and then stir in egg yolks. Fold in egg whites and leave to set .

(If I'm rushing or lazy I don't bother folding but whisk the whole lot together, it is denser but still delicious)

Lemon meringue pie.
Sundaes
Mousse
Sticky toffee pudding
Bread and butter pudding & custard
but crumble is the best!

OP - Crumble is not cake! It's nothing like cake! Here it wouldn't be served with a cup of tea to avoid doing housework! It's served with custard in the winter (OK in our house with custard all year round) or cream or ice-cream.

Try making a proper Italian Tiramisu (eggs and mascapone no cream), pavlova, trifle, knickerbocker glory (if you want a 70s inspired dessert), a fruit pie, fruit tureen, lemon meringue pie, sticky toffee pudding and as you are married to a Scot how about Clootie Dumpling?

Crumble is very definitely not a cake 😂

Favourite pudding from childhood is ice cream with hot chocolate sauce

treacle tart

Crumble is biscuits on stewed fruit (very tasty) and absolutely not cake.

For puddings in the summer, I echo meringues (the brittle chewy ones not the soft lemon meringue pie ones..although if you are talking chewy lemon Meringues I'm interested!) With whipped cream and macerated strawberries . We eat them unbashed up so Eton mess without the mess.

Chocolate mousse with Raspberries. Cherry clafoutis. Just strawberries and cream.

Basically anything with soft fruits in season.

Winter puddings like chocolate tart with creme fraiche, crumble and custard, sponge and custard are the easy ones that keep for the next few days.

Panacotta, baked fruit (grilled nectarines are divine at this time of year), baked basque cheesecake, summer pudding, fruit fools, Greek Yogurt with fruit or honey

I don't eat it but my kids all love homemade rice pudding made in the slow cooker. It is very easy to make with just a few ingredients.

You're probably other thinking it a bit. We only have a big pudding at the weekend. Week nights it's simple things like yoghurt, fruit or ice cream. I think 70's desserts are still quite nostalgically popular in Britain. Like everyone else suggests - fruit crumbles/pies with custard/cream/ice cream, lemon tart, tart, treacle tart, bread & butter pud, roulade, baked Alaska, trifle, lime cheesecake, strawbs and cream. And this mousse is a firm fav in our house.

www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/food/recipes/a535298/white-chocolate-basil-mousse-recipe/

We don't have dessert every day but when we do these are the things we might have:

Stewed apple with homemade custard
Stewed rhubarb with homemade custard
Rice pudding with spices baked in the oven
Pavlova or individual meringues with crean & fruit
Ice cream & wafers / and fruit
Mixed fruit salad (we have this a lot) using seasonal fruits
Dd loves melting a small bowl of chocolate to dip Strawberries into
Bonne maman creme caramels
Mini cornetto / magnums from the freezer!

i detest crumble so we never have that

When we're entertaining we make things like:
Lemon meringue pie
Ultimate brownies
Chocolate meringue with Raspberries
Portuguese custard tart
Apple or rhubarb tart
Strawberry tart
Chocolate mousse
Trifle with all elements homemade

I very rarely make pudding but when I do it's usually apple or rhubarb crumble, or meringues with berries and whipped cream. Or birthday cake.

Meringue is the furthest dessert from a cake I can imagine. It's just sugar and whipped egg whites...

Biscuits on stewed fruit sounds lovely although I'm not sure that's crumble!