Crowdpleasing Christmas desserts

[Anxioustealady]

Hi everyone.

If you had to serve 3 desserts for Christmas Day, and it was a group of 15+ including children and older people, what would you serve to please everyone?

What would you ideally like?

And what would you be disappointed to see if it was the only option?

Just for a bit of fun. No allergies etc to make it easy

Ice cream, cream, custard, mince pies and Christmas cake will be there already 🎄

I normally make a large trifle, Christmas pudding, pavlova and a baked cheesecake

I’d be disappointed with just one as I like have a couple of smaller bits of each lol.

We have trifle and Christmas pudding.

I personally would do...

Christmas pudding (reluctantly)
Berry cheesecake
Chocolate yule log

A bit boring tbh

My dream pudding is a sticky toffee pudding and nice custard, or a Gu hot chocolate melting middle pudding with vanilla ice cream

My disappointing one would be a trifle or profiteroles or meringue! I hate cream

I do a chocolate cheesecake, a trifle and a pavlova.

Trifle
Chocolate Yule Log
Christmas pudding/Warm mince pies with a boatload of cream

Bonus chocolate pine cones from M&S

Would be disappointed to see only a traditional Christmas pudding. Yuck.
Or trifle. Or anything with booze or nuts.

My choice for me would be
Steamed pudding- spotted dick esq. Like am xmas pud but without the alcohol or mixed meal or dark bleughy Ness.

Apple pie

Baked lemon cheese cake

If feeding other people I'd swap the cheesecake for something chocolately like a yule log as think it's more typically popular.

I like Eton mess so maybe some kind of pavlova- if you could get nice fruit.
Or Baked Alaska- with home made tutti frutti icecream.
All time favourite - coffee choux buns- but prob not for everyone?

Jamaican crunch - like a cheesecake but better 😊

Stir in some melted butter to bashed up ginger biscuits to form the base. Whisk up some double cream, add a tin of condensed milk and stir. Then stir in the juice and zest of a few lemons. This topping should then thicken. Pour over the ginger base and pop in the fridge for a couple of hours. It’s really delicious!

I make a bucket load of profiteroles with a cream and chocolate sauce which is so indulgent that nobody can eat more than a couple. Second tier is a traybake pudding - something like lemon-topped shortbread with creme fraiche. To be honest everyone is usually so stuffed with dinner that they only want a tiny bit of pudding, but it's useful to have something like the traybake because then you can slice it up and put it on a plate for people to nibble on during the evening, rather than puddings that you have to serve properly.

I'd do chocolate trifle (miles nicer than traditional trifle in my chocolate-loving opinion), maybe pavlova - though maybe I'd buy a frozen roulade instead - and I'd make melt in the middle puddings because they're easy.
Although my mum used to make some kind of butterscotch dessert at Christmas when we were young - I tried what I thought was the recipe from her book but it wasn't as good.

This is called Luscious Lemon Pie in our house. Sometimes I use digestives and serve with raspberries......🤤

My kind of people lol

I've jumped on to say pavlova too.

That sounds amazing. Drinking ginger beer as we speak

I make a tiramisu which goes down well as it's pretty light (I add whisked egg whites to make it fluffier)

I'm contemplating making a pistachio tiramisu this year. I made a traditional one previously and it was very popular, and surprisingly easy to make

I always put together a fruit salad for New Year's Day. I make it in the morning. It is healthy and light and leftovers are good the next day

I usually make a millionaire cheesecake, key lime pie and a black forest trifle (brownies, boozy cherries and chocolate custard).

Panna Cotta with raspberries and cream served in individual bowls /glasses always goes down well and is easy to prepare the day before.

A nice cheesecake (or three). Profiteroles. Good ol' mint Vienetta.

Christmas pudding and yule log would be a no from me. Christmas pudding for obvious reasons and chocolate cake in general is meh. Same for anything with meringue!

If something with custard, have some cream/ice cream to offer too. Nothing worse than a sad little pudding as custard () is the only option.

A fruit and nut cake or christmas pudding
A pavlova with winter berries
A spekulatius based cheesecake

If the kids were particularly young or fussy, some plain shortbread biscuits and some icing and sprinkles for them to decorate their own.

Nutella Christmas Tree is a fave with my son

Christmas pudding
Homemade banoffee pie
Tarte Tartin
Brandy baskets as a cheeky fourth

Gosh you might not need anything else! An apple crumble or pie? Yule log cake?

This is gorgeous despite gregg wallace being a tit

Really bendy sponge- no cracking- it do a marsala marscapone cream in it though and sometimes spread with chocolate spread before rolling it up