Christmas day dessert for young children

[Treats]

I've got 12 coming for Christmas dinner and am all sorted for pudding for the adults - homemade Christmas Pudding with brandy sauce or an alternative cheesecakey, trifley type thing that MIL is bringing.

But I've got DD and her cousin (both 4) and I'd like to get them a special something. They're very unsophisticated in their tastes - their favourite pudding is ice cream, closely followed by chocolate mousse. They'd be thrilled with a dollop of ice cream for pudding and would pass out with excitement if I topped it with some chocolate sauce. But I just thought it would be nice to find a jelly Santa or an ice cream snowman or something, just to make it festive.

But I can't find anything. I've looked in Sainsburys, Waitrose and M&S but no joy. All the desserts are very sophisticated, adult-style and - not only do I think they won't appreciate it - I don't particularly want to spend that kind of money.

I COULD make them something but I don't really have the time or the inclination. So - has anybody seen anything fun and simple for children in the shops. Or - failing that - a super-easy recipe that I could rustle up in no more than 10 minutes on Christmas Eve?

Wow he's got good kitchen staff! At ours the upper school had to have their dessert in the afternoon as the cake wasn't cooked in time!

Strawberry Santas look great!

He has great kitchen staff - his school dinner menus always look fab and they cater really well for allergies too. I'm often mildly jealous. The kitchen ladies came high up on his list of "staff to give a xmas card to"!

Dipping marshmallows in hot chocolate sauce

timefor my DD had Christmas tree ice cream yesterday as well, she loved it!!!

Excellent ideas here . We are at DMs for Christmas and DD and I are having a fruit salad on Christmas day. When Dsis was little she hated christmas pud and I used to make her profiteroles every year as her special treat.

I'm going to make one of these christmas tree biscuit tower things with DD . Would look fab on the table.

What about a see through plastic cup with layered red and green jelly and a scoop of ice cream on top with choc chips to look like a snowman head

or Santa strawberries

Some fantastic ideas here folks - thanks! Definitely inspired by the idea of making my own ice cream snowmen. I have some individual pudding moulds which I could fill with icecream a day or two before, then turn out, top with another scoop and decorate with some sweets. That could definitely work.

Although I might check out the Baskin Robbin/ Iceland ideas. I promised myself a completely hassle free Christmas this year!

LOVE the chocolate bowls Mortified - definitely going to remember that. Do you grease the balloons beforehand?

I like the strawberry Santas but I'm dubious about the quality and availability of strawberries at this time of year. Don't want to be freaking out in Sainsbury's on Christmas Eve because they don't have any.

Nope, no need. Video here

I'm getting ds Oreo Ice Cream.

I made chocolate cups (silicone fairy cake tin- or paper cases doubled up) paint with chocolate in thin layers to build up.

Spoonful of chocolate pudding (IIRC we used Milky Bar pudding) scoop of ice-cream, sauce, and a chocolate spoon (Lakeland do spoon and mini spoon moulds)