Ideas for a Christmas Day pudding that isn't Christmas pudding (or trifle)

[TriggersBroom]

This year, nobody who is around on Christmas Day particularly likes Xmas pudding so I'm looking for ideas for a yummy pudding for Christmas day - something indulgent (possibly creamy and/or chocolatey) which can be made in advance. Any suggestions?

(I'm not too keen on trifle)

Oooh, bump (sorry, no ideas myself!)

I don't have much freezer space so it would have to be made fresh the day before,

..but my mum once made Christmas pudding ice cream for herself, it looked tasty and smelled tasty but we weren't allowed to have any

Panettone bread and butter pudding. Make the custard with cream, and put some orange zest in it.

Ah.. no ice cream, then! We're cross-posting!

Chocolate roulade, or a nice cheesecake. We also sometimes have sticky toffee pudding here.

We are having sticky toffee pudding this year

That tiramisu cake looks amazing. But Ds will sulk as he doesn't like coffee.

We did this once: www.deliaonline.com/recipes/galleries/Christmas-desserts/truffle-torte.html which was very nice.

Black Forest chocolate cake!

Oh and you'd best have prawn cocktail starters too!

That's a bit mean of your mum Quinto

Delia's chocolate truffle torte. Very very good and rich and chocolatey, especially with cream on top . DH doesn't like Christmas pud so I make this as well. Can be made a day or two in advance, or can even be frozen if you want to make it earlier

Black Forest cake would definitely fit my chocolate/ cream brief.

I always make a chocolate mousse cake.

It's yummy and creamy and chocolatey! It's quite laborious (separated eggs, egg white beaten, whipped cream etc) and very expensive - I costed it out once when I made it to cut up and sell at a fair and I think it came to about £8 . It does feed at least 12 - 16 people tho. I always make it the day before.

Can post recipe if you like OP.

That does sound lovely clary. Although I'd probably regret all the egg separating on Christmas eve.

Mind you, having rejected egg separating, this does look rather good:

www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/desserts/special-occasion/a-return-to-the-black-forest.html

Profiteroles. Make the pastry puffs in advance, fill with cream a few hours before needed if you want, and make the choc sauce the day before. Then to serve, just warm up the sauce, and enjoy.

Or ice cream-filled profiteroles can be made well in advance.

Ooh. I've never made choux pastry. Am i brave enough? I could make a profiterole croquembouche-type tower!

I made this frozen Christmas pudding a couple of years ago. I halved the ingredients and still had plenty. Really delicious! Needs freezer space though.

I might have a little experiment with Nigella:

www.nigella.com/recipes/view/profiteroles-with-a-hot-chocolate-sauce--996

Yeah do it. I'd never made it before 'til the other day and it was lovely and honestly not hard at all. So we're having them again for Xmas! Not a tower though, just a, erm, heap. Perhaps in a festively shaped dish? And with lots and lots of sauce.

I might do a salted caramel sauce as well as a choc.

That looks lovely Faith, but freezer space will be at a premium as my mother will be bringing her famous salmon mousses for Boxing day.

Or maybe an alcoholic sauce for the adults and a milk chocolate sauce for the kids Zebra?

See, I really want to make loads of sauces. A choc one, for all. Then a chocolatey and booze one for adults. Maybe with Cointreau for that chocolate orange thang? But also, a sort of mexican inspired chocolate sauce with spices and chilli. And a salted caramel sauce too. And might we need a white chocolate sauce too? Wih rum perhaps?

I really really like pudding you see.

A sauce buffet!