Christmas Desserts?

[StarryNightSparkles]

In our house for ever and a day we always have chocolate cake as a dessert. So for Christmas this year I thought that I would spice things up and step outside the box ( the only reason we eat chocolate cake all the time is because dh and dc are so fussy and ask for it, now they are teasing me about the inevitable chocolate cake 🤷‍♀️)

What lovely desserts are you having this Christmas?

I will also buy the chocolate cake as no doubt that they will moan we don't have one 🤦‍♀️🤯

Turinois (chocolate chestnut slice).

@irregularegular thanks, that sounds nice and yummy.

Loads of great ideas here thanks very much everyone 😊 I am now thinking should I get/make mini desserts then the fuss pots could try little bits of new desserts. Such as an individual Christmas pudding, mini desserts.

@AliceMcK that looks amazing definitely stealing this idea. It looks light and refreshing luckily we all love fruit.

DM used to make St Stephens pudding which is citrus based & lighter than Christmas pud - no doubt it’s available on Google.

I have Christmas pudding, chocolate cake and mincemeat strudel with cream.

Kids prefer individual meringue and squirty cream with chopped fruit/chocolate/marshmallow (ddog also loves a blob of squirty cream)

I used to do a christmas pudding icecream (vanilla icecream, brandy, glace cherries, choc chips, nuts with a hot chocolate sauce).

This year I am thinking about a tiramisu.

@twinkletoedelephant

I have Christmas pudding, chocolate cake and mincemeat strudel with cream.

Kids prefer individual meringue and squirty cream with chopped fruit/chocolate/marshmallow (ddog also loves a blob of squirty cream)

Love you treat ddog!

One year I gave our dog a prawn cocktail starter. He was most impressed. :)

@lurkingfromhome

I make everyone's favourite dessert for Christmas so that we can pick at them over a few days. I'm doing:

Spiced plum cheesecake
Ginger and pear trifle
Chocolate and caramel tart

ginger and pear trifle sound incredible.

Ive ordered 12 mini cheesecakes from a local company. No idea what flavours as ive told them to mix it up. So ill see Christmas Eve when they deliver.

@MrsDThomas

Ive ordered 12 mini cheesecakes from a local company. No idea what flavours as ive told them to mix it up. So ill see Christmas Eve when they deliver.

Sounds fab! Hope they are lovely.

They are delicious!

I know they had chocolate orange, white chocolate and raspberry, prosecco, vanilla, baileys, lemon, and a few others.

Can’t wait!

Sounds amazing and what a lot of different choices you get.

Christmas pud with brandy butter, Nigella Yule log, then a crocembouche.
In previous years Iceland and Lidl sold kits for these, loads of profiteroles, chocolate and caramel sauces, but no luck this year. Fortunately I had saved the gold cardboard frame from last year, and this weekend made a perfectly good version with ordinary profiteroles. So it will appear again at some stage over Christmas.

Aww wow tricky that looks amazing.

Flourless chocolate roulade. Really light and delicious.

Christmas pudding with brandy butter
Mince pies with brandy butter
Fizzy jelly
Custard, ice cream, double cream, clotted cream as accompaniments to the above
Chocolate eclairs.

Homemade Christmas pud with brandy butter, and a Christmas Dried Fruit Compote (Delia’s) which is dead easy and delish.

This year I’m making white forest meringue roulade. We sometimes have Christmas pudding and I’ve also made oaty apple trifle before but actually, everyone is usually too full for pudding anyway!

Sticky toffee pudding
Apple crumble
Or Vanilla or Lemon cheesecake

Noone in our house likes Christmas pudding except dsd1 so we buy her a tiny 1 person one x

How about this? It's something a work colleague recommended to me and I still haven't tried it. Maybe this year.

www.gransnet.com/recipes/dish/5591-Snow-queen-recipe

I HAVE to have sherry trifle or it's just not Christmas for me. I love the Aldi specially select one these days after years of m&s

I usually buy a fresh cream yule log too as dd doesn't like trifle but last few years it barely got touched so this year I'm thinkin h of making a small homemade banoffi pie as I have a jar of really good caramel from a local deli. And it's one of dd's favourite desserts

Allowing none of us are sick we have guests planned for new years eve & I am 100% going to make that meringue wreath posted above- that looks incredible!

Apple and mincemeat stollen

Sticky toffee pudding

I've already made and frozen them 😀😀

I make gf, df trifle, steamed syrup pudding, @StarryNightSparkles chocolate cake with hazelnut meal added in (so yum), nutmeg slice, gf df custard.

Thanks everyone for all the fab suggestions. I can see me buying or making a good few different desserts 😳

My choice would be…

Pavlova/roulade
Sticky toffee pudding and cream
Or some kind of fruity cheesecake.

But my dc are fussy and I have caved in and bought them a Daim bar cake 😬. I might still have something different for myself as I’m not that keen on chocolate deserts for Christmas due to the amount of other chocolate consumed.

Waitrose offer some brilliant festive desserts every year.
Next year have a look at the Raspberry Jelly Pan Cotta. Excellent product.
They also stock Peppa Pig jelly which I find is a brilliant pudding for friends young children