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 😉

I love pineapple on pizza! 😉

Rice pudding or ice creams or banana and custard

Lemon meringue pie

Sticky toffee pudding (make in bulk, or in muffin tins, it freezes well)

Crimble crumble!

Crumble is not cake! But I see the point about meringues. Lemon Posset is simple and lovely. BBC Good Food recipe is lovely.

Summer pudding ( white bread lining bowl with fresh berries inside) spotted dick, steamed treacle pudding, baked apples with dates/sultanas, butter, cinnamon down the centre

Oooh now I’m hungry. Cranachan!

Pavlova
Banoffee Pie
Key Lime Pie
Tiramisu
Crumble
Strawberries and cream
Eton Mess
Warm cookies with ice cream
Brownies

Bread pudding. Hydrate dried fruit by simmering in black tea. Mix this with stale bread when cooled, add mixed spice/allspice, sugar and egg. Put in a tin, bake and then slap your DH's hand away until it's just warm sprinkle with granulated sugar.

Do small slices and then prepare yourself for finding a slab of it has disappeared once it's properly cold.

Raspberry pavlova or Eton Mess
Lemon Posset
Baked cheesecake with fruit coulis
Chocolate brownie with vanilla ice cream
If my Dad were coming a crumble of some sort (I don't like crumble)

Mmmm crumble. Eating apples then don't need to add sugar. Custard of course

But now you've said it, I'm dreaming about a crumble cafe where you have a choice of different crumbles, ice cream, custard... Amazing 🤤

Fresh fruit with Greek Yoghurt and a sprinkling of powdered jaggery

Custard has no place with crumble....

It's ice cream it needs

No, because it isn't.

Trifle, tiramisu, fruit with meringues and cream and definitely Angel Delight in this weather

If I ever need to make a pudding (and this is only when I have guests so about three times a year 🤣) I'd make a crumble and have a choice of custard, fresh cream or ice cream to go with it.

On the other 362 days, dinner is just that...dinner! No pudding required 👌🏻

Nope 👎 Pudding all the way 😍

Fool/ syllabub.
Usually made from stewed fruit (50%) folded into Greek yogurt (25%) and whipped cream (25%). Tweak the proportions to taste. Use a tin or jar of fruit for convenience.
Rhubarb is my favourite and I often add a bit of crystallised ginger too.
Serve with shortbread or Boudoir biscuits if you can be bothered. 😉

Worried about OP putting shortbread on top of fruit now and thinking that's a crumble.

I make crumble by rubbing butter or spread into flour as if I was going to make shortcrust pastry. You can do this by hand, as I was taught to do in Home Economics back in the 1970s, or in a food processor, as I usually do now. When it looks like breadcrumbs you stop. If you were going to make shortcrust, you'd add water but for crumble you stop there. Most people add sugar, I believe, but I don't, so I don't know whether you'd add sugar before rubbing in or after. I stew my fruit with sugar (and probably a little spice, depending on what it is) and put that in the baking dish. Sprinkle the crumble topping over the top. Sometimes I add rolled oats to the crumble. Bake till the topping is golden brown. Food of the gods.

I see that brambles are ripening in the local park so I may go off and gather some this week. Apple and blackberry crumble is our absolute favourite.

Baileys meringues are gorgeous and simple to make with shop bought ingredients. Two meringues crushed as the base,topped with two scoops of coffee ice cream,a dollop of clotted cream in the middle,a drizzle of chocolate sauce and a shot of baileys poured over the top. Top with two wafers and some crushed nuts

I wouldn't worry about "going a bit 70s" the best puddings are old fashioned. There's been enough crumble chat, but what about steamed puddings?

Treacle, jam pudding, syrup sponge, sticky toffee, spotted dick? Or, my personal favourite, jam Roly poly. All with loads of custard obviously. And probably more suited to winter!

Fruit crumble

Gooseberry slump

Lemon Syllabub

Eton mess

Summer pudding

Greek yogurt with berries and honey

Tiramisu

Creme caramel

Panna cotta

That sounds lovely @Scandiviews1 !

Crumbles? Sponge cake and custard? Yoghurt? Ice cream?

What cakes and biscuits are considered a meal? To me, cakes and biscuits would be things like maderia cake, cherry cake, victoria sponge or chocolate digestive and definitely don't make a main meal.

Or just don't serve pudding. It's not really needed.

Vienetta
arctic roll
blancmange

The desserts of an 80s childhood!