please share your bestest ever dessert for dinner party!

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Stuck for dessert for friends coming for dinner, please share some ideas! Love naughty choc things or fresh lemon things if that helps! thank you xx

This may be a bit old hat now but they're easy and really impressive when all the sauce oozes out. And you can make them well in advance.

www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/desserts/traditional-dessert/melting-chocolate-puddings.html

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This is so simple it's ridiculous, but it always wows and is always a firm favourite when we are entertaining.

Lime cheese cake.

juice and zest of two limes
2 tubs of mascarpone cheese
4 oz icing sugar
1 packet ginger biscuits
3oz butter

Blitz biscuits and mix with butter to make the base. Chill.
Mix mascarpone, icing sugar and zest & juice of limes together and top the biscuit base. Job done basically! You could add a touch of grated choc, if you like, just to make it look nice on the table.

Ooh - that looks yum MaureenMLove! I will try that.

Very similar, but you can make with zero fat cream cheese and melted dark chocolate and a little maple syrup instead of the lime flavour. Very simple and rich!

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Well, I have just made the cheesecake and it looks lovely, so easy to make. Haven't tasted it yet as it's for tomorrow but the topping is really nice - well It would have been criminal not to lick the spoon wouldn't it!
Will let you know how it goes down tomorrow.

Ooh flossy if you say it is grand that will be christmas days pudding

Just marking too, sounds great!

Frozen berries with hot white chocolate sauce is divine - incredibly easy, a bit expensive and very, very rich and decadent. I make it New Year's Day.

Recipe here

flossy how was it? I'm intrigued

I've just served some Raspberry Cheesecake that went down a storm. Based on the Hummingbird Bakery Summer fruits cheesecake.

White chocolate baked cheesecake.

450g/1lb soft cream cheese
4 large free-range eggs
1 vanilla pod, seeds scraped out
225g/8oz good quality white chocolate
225g/8oz crème fraîche
butter, for greasing & melting.
Chocolate digestive crumbs, to cover the base of a 10" tin 1/4" deep

Melt butter and mix with biscuit crumbs. Press down into tin and chill in the fridge for half an hour.
Beat the cream cheese in a bowl until soft, then add the eggs one by one, along with the seeds scraped from the vanilla pod.
Melt the white chocolate in a bowl set over a pan of gently simmering water, then fold in the crème fraîche until smooth.
Fold the chocolate mixture into the cream cheese mixture.
Pour the chocolate and cream cheese mixture into the tin and bang down on a firm surface to remove any air bubbles.
Bake in a low oven, 150C/300F/Gas 2, for 45 minutes-1 hour, or until the centre is just firm.
Allow to rest for several hours to firm up (overnight in the fridge is best) before turning out, sprinkling with cocoa powder and serving with fresh raspberries.

Sorry only just getting back to you.

The cheesecake when down very well, in the words of my DH - "awesome"!
It is really tasty, lovely strong (but not over-powering) lime flavour that goes really well with the ginger base. The only negative (well not even that really) is that I used every bit of the topping which was just a little too much. I think I could have used about 3/4 of it which would have been just right.

All in all, definitely a hit! Love to know if others make it and let me know what you think also.

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Does it have to be ginger biscuits? Could I use digestives? Or would they be too bland?

Lemon Possett

This is one of the easiest and yummiest desserts I have ever made.

You can dress it up, with shortbread biscuits, or redcurrants, or some such - but it is lovely on its own.

panna cotta out the River cafe book with grappa and raspberries. YUM!

Greythorne - can't see why you couldn't use digestives but with the lime being so strong you may find that you won't be able to taste the biscuit whatsoever. Only going by the taste of it from when I made it but maybe Maureen could answer better as it's her recipe!

Mary Berry's Lemon and Lime Cheesecake is heaven:

100g digestives
50g butter
1 tbsp caster sugar

1 x 250g mascarpone
1 x 375g can full-fat condensed milk (low-fat won't set!)
juice of 1 small lemon
3 tbsp lemon curd
finely grated zest and juice of 2 lemons.

CAN BE MADE UP TO 24 HOURS AHEAD.

20cm/8in shallow springform cake tin

Crush the biscuits with a rolling pin until they are fine crumbs.

Melt the butter in a pan and add the crumbs and sugar. Stir. Press biscuits into the tin to make an even layer. Put in the fridge to firm whilst you are making the filling.

Using an electric whisk, whisk the mascarpone and condensed milk.

Add the lemon juice and curd and nearly all the lime zest (keep some back for garnish) and juice and whisk until thick and creamy.

Spoon on top of the biscuit base. Level the tops, cover with clingfilm and chill for a minimum of 2 hours.

Decorate with the reserved lime zest and extra fresh raspberries on the side.

It is absolutely gorgeous, I've already made it twice and am making it for Christmas and New Year.

Nigella does an extremely easy and highly impressive chocolate fondant recipe which I think is in How To Eat.

Serve with some berries on the side - I use blueberries and raspberries with some icing sugar sprinkled on top.

Then a big jug of ice cold single cream.

This always gets lots of WOWs!!

Oooh marking for the two cheesecake recipes - thanks