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

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Chocolate Bavarois - Something very rich and chocolatey - yumblog.co.uk/archives/2835

Warm honeyed citrus fruits with yoghurt - Something light, refreshing and fragrant - yumblog.co.uk/archives/3192

Vanilla risotto with poached rhubarb - Something rich, creamy and vanillary - yumblog.co.uk/archives/3455

Enjoy

gin and tonic tart - it's basically a lemon tart spiked with gin, with a gin and lemon syrup poured over the top. I am making it for Boxing Day - very excited. Can pm the recipe if you want.

bluesky you haven't written limes in the ingredients, but lemons is there twice - can you tell us how many of each, please? (sounds lush!) - thanks!

Marking place for cheesecake.

hillee can i have your gin lemon tart recipe please?

Raspberry pavlova - nigellas recipe for the pav
Nigellas key lime thing (although don't try to calculate the amount of Philly in each portion!)
James martins chocolate brownies

Thanks Maureen for the lime cheesecake recipe. I made it at Christmas and it was lovely - will definitely make again. :)

Super easy dessert - affogato. Serve a bowl of really nice vanilla icecream with crushed amaretto biscuits. Serve at table with a shot of espresso and a shot of amaretto. Guests pour over the icecream at table. Yummy, simple and looks impressive if you have nice espresso cups and/or shot glasses.

Have made nigella's snowflake brownies tonight, could easily serve this with a raspberry coulis or cream at a dinner party, and am going to make her easy party trifle tomorrow...

Hazelnut Chestnut Thingy, its a hazelnut meringue, sandwiched with cream and a delish mixture of sweet chestnut puree, cream and chocy. Its from a classic goodhousekeeping cookbook and is the yummiest pudding EVER and a bit different.

Marking for cheesecake recipe for tomorrow.

also marking for cheesecake recipe - I think this is like the one my MIL makes (specially for me as she knows I love cheesecake I do love my MIL).

Think my most successful dinner party pud is pavlova, I do it with halved grapes and a bit of brandy in the cream, and let the meringue stay chewy in the middle. Other options: Nigella's chocolate fondant puds from How to Eat. Orange and almond cake. Apple syllabub with fried apple slices. Apple turnovers (using bought puff pastry) and ice cream.

weevils that hazelnut chestnut thing sounds amazing... I am going to have to try to find an online version.

All these desserts sound ace and most quite sophisticated.

Mine tend to be stodgy things like apple tarts/tarte tatin with massive dollops of clotted cream.

"Naughty choc thing" has got to be Jamie's Mega Chocolate Fudge cake. It can be found here.

A.Ma.Zing. :)

Nigel Slater's white chocolate & cardamom mousse with very dark chocolate sauce is good, easy and sophisticated.
Or if it's cold and you want to pig out, Delia's chocolate bread and butter pudding is good.

maureen do you know if your cheesecake would work with lemons and any idea if same amount as limes ? thanks

Easy least cheesecake marking my place thanks

Pesky autocorrect easy peasy