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 😉

Alright. I'll be the one. I'll bite....

Gooseberry what?

Cheese and chutney.

Crumble with yoghurt. With custard or ice cream for more of a treat.

Creme brules, shortbread!!! with yogurts, fresh fruit. I do not have time to cook from scratch every day, since I have been in hospitality the last two years and when come home after 8 h on my feet, cooking or cleaning is the last thing I can really do

Banana splits

1950s looking back to Mum's childhood as well. Milk puddings, rice or semolina, could be cooked in the oven alongside other things. (We didn't do tapioca or sago.) Sponge puddings - jam, golden syrup, marmalade. Suet puddings - spotted dick. jam roly poly, apple. Pies, apple, blackberry, etc. Bread and butter pudding. When Mum was hard pressed she'd just serve suet puds into our dishes with a selection of toppings for us to choose. Jam, syrup, marmalade and I was partial to a lump of butter and demerara sugar. We never had Sussex Pond Pudding which is not good for limiting fats and sugar, but gorgeous.

Home made rice pudding! Crumble. Apple/fruit pies!
Trifle
Cheesecakes
Shortbread

Cake is desert!!

Brownies
Sticky toffee pudding
Tarts
Gypsy tart especially!!

Cheesecake, ice cream, jam roly poly, apple crumble, cornflake tart, trifle, fairy bread (really good when money is tight), homemade chocolate and fruit pizza, homemade chocolate and fruit/nut/sweet slabs. Probably loads more because I love pudding/dessert 😁

I often make a shallow vanilla sponge and cover it with whipped cream and pile on strawberries/ raspberries and blueberries.

Crumble

Trifle

Tiramisu

Lemon tiramisu

Chocolate fondant

Ice cream

A classic in my family would have been "oeufs au lait". It's a vanilla egg milk custard, very easy to do and keep in the fridge for a few days.

Also crêpes after soup in the winter.

Exactly like I make crumble, except I do also add rolled oats and brown sugar.

We have occasionally had crumble and custard for pud, but not bothered including the stewed fruit.......

My favourite is frozen strudel from Aldi or something. Plonked in the oven after the roast and delicious cold for breakfast or sometimes I make it myself if someone turns up with picked fruit. A good one is homemade strawberry sauce drizzled over a plain marks and Spencer cheesecake. A brought black forest gateux never lasts long around me too.

spotted dick
roly poly
Floating islands

I hear strawberries are a popular although low effort pudding 🤣

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.

Stir it in after. It would go all sticky during the rubbing in if you added it before.

My absolute favourite is bakewell tart !

Bakewell Tart With custard ( this recipe is so easy v others ! ) or with ice cream
Jam sponge pudding with custard ( or could do lemon curd sponge)
egg custard tart
treacle tart
trifle
tiramisu
creme brûlée
cheesecake - any chocolate / vanilla / fruit
pavlova - as easy as making meringues but soft rather than crispy.

Looks like you have a year of puddings now with no need to repeat too often with all the suggestions on MN - enjoy trying them out and hope the family like them !

We don’t eat pudding often, which is weird considering dh & I grew up in households where puddings were a must.

Dh ate tea at his nans alot - pudding was usually homemade ice buns or Victoria sponge cake with a cup of tea.

In my household, it was homemade rhubarb crumble, bananas & custard, jelly & tip top cream, choc ices, jam tarts, rice pudding with jam, meringues with strawberries & cream, lemon curd on digestive biscuits, raspberry pavlova cake type thing, peach cobbler with cream, key lime pie, warm treacle tart or Jamaican ginger cake with a thick layer of butter.

It's not actually shortbread but it's the same combination of ingredients (sugar butter and flour) just crumbled up on top of fruit.

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/quick-crumble-mix

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/shortbread-biscuits

Essentially the same recipe.

Pie, crumble, steam puddings, cobbler, tart, strudel

Steamed pudding seems to be coming up a lot - any good recipe suggestions? I never made one but up for the challenge.

Oh good, I do make crumble right then - phew! Also, if you make a shortbread base, cover it in crumble and bake it until slightly browned, then let it cool and cover it in icing as it cools, you get a really nice basic German crumble so I have doubled-up on both before 😉

(add fruit if you got some around but it is not needed)

In warm weather Affogato is my go to, and variations of it.

Basically it's a scoop of ice cream and an espresso on top in a glass, adding Kahlua as a treat for the adults.

I also sometimes put broken up chocolate brownies at the bottom, crumble Amaretti biscuits on top of the ice cream.

If there are guests with us I might add chopped fresh peaches/raspberries/cherries/strawberries on top of the sponge before adding ice cream, espresso (+shot of choice)and crumbled amaretti.

Simple, fast and a hit with EVERYONE!

Check out the best seasonal fruit and base around that. Baked peaches with amaretto crumb and mascarpone. Fresh apricots poached in a light syrup with Greek yoghurt. Roast pineapple slices with chilli and lime glaze. Cherry clafoutis. Gooseberry or redcurrant fool. Plum crumble or slump. Rhubarb cheesecake.

In winter there's some great bottled fruit. An old fashioned peach Melba. Lemon posset.

Crumble is usually served hot, cake is not.

Then there’s the whole range of treacle pudding, sticky toffee pudding, queen of puddings etc.

Pies and tarts

Crème caramel, crème brûlée, mousse, blancmange

You need to go to Humble Crumble if you’re in London!