Can anyone suggest a recipe for dessert I can do in the morning and ignore in the fridge until after supper, but...

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... it can't be cheesecake

... it can't be dreadfully unhealthy (a bit unhealthy is fine but not lashings of cream and butter)

... it can't be alcoholic

... it must be served chilled or room temp - I can't heat it up.

Something fruity would be good.

Any ideas?

Choc mousse has marshmellows - not veggie. Gahh.

marsh mellows ???

A simple lemon tart served with fresh berries and a dollop of creme fraiche or some pouring cream. Anyone wanting to be healthy can just eat the berries.

Summer fruit pudding, soak bread in juice from berries and layer round a dish. Put berries in middle with a bread lid. Put a weight on, put it in fridge. Voila!!

Think I'd go for choc mousse - I'm sure you can find a low fat recipe, personally I wouldn't bother though, just serve smaller portion with some raspberries if you must and enjoy!

Hairy Dieter's Fruit Compote

2 Bramley apples, peeled & sliced
4 plums, quartered
200g each of strawberries, blackberries & raspberries
75g caster sugar

Put the apples & plums in a dish with half the sugar, cover with foil & bake at gas 5/190c for 30 mins.

Remove, add berries & remaining sugar and stir together. Re-cover & bake for another 15 mins.

Can be served warm or cold with yoghurt, cream or ice cream.

Best easy pud:

Bash up a shortbread biscuit
Put it in a small serving bowl
Put some vanilla ice cream and bottled cherries on top
Grate some dark choc over
Pour an expresso over the top

Gorgeous!

PS I've made this a few times since getting the book for Christmas.

You can use frozen summer fruits to maker it a bit less expensive, and any large firm apple will do - just cut the slices slightly thicker. Have also done iy with just apples & raspberries which was lovely.

It's in the book as a breakfast with low fat Greek yoghurt, but I accidentally discovered that it is yummy warm with vanilla ice cream.

Appologies for the marsh mellows - ha, sorry.

Some lovely ideas for desserts on this thread. I am definitely planning to try a few of them.

Still not decided but will have to soon as I'm running out of time.

Freeze mango chunks
Grate some lime zest
Whizz up in processor until they are smooooooooth
Add a tub of natural yogurt and some honey
Re-freeze

That is sorbet number one.

I do something similar with frozen raspberries and rose water.
Two scoops of that on a plate...a few fresh berries/mint leaves to serve

Posh, delicious, fruity, healthy, can be left alone, leftovers will live in the freezer for ever (except they won't, because this is DELIcIOUS)
:)

DumSpiro has solved a conundrum I had with an orphaned single Bramley apple. Thanks!

I've made Nigellas lemon curd meringue roulade a few times and its never failed. It's a great way to use the whole of the egg up rather than recipes which just use whites, leaving you with a surplus of yolks to use up for something else.

pudding

Chocolate mousse doesn't need to be unhealthy - I make one with just 200g dark chocolate and 8 eggs - nowt wrong with that and a sprinkling of raspberries. (Unless you eat it all yourself, which I grant you is nutritionally questionable)

I make a thing with plums stewed with a bit of honey, and a crumble topping. You could serve it with or without cream or icecream.

To make the crumble topping, you make a sort of flap jack mix, with some mixed spice in, but spread it much thinner in the tin than for normal flapjack. When it is cooked, bash it up a bit to make it into crumble topping. This bit can be done in advance, and stored in an airtight container, once it is cooled to room temperature. (If you put it in a sealed container too early, it will become soggy, not crunchy.)

It is best served warm, but you could just cut up the plums in advance, and leave them in the pot, and just pop the gas under them while you are eating the main course. They should be cooked in time for pudding, and it's very quick and easy to dish up. You just spoon a few plum halves into each bowl, and scatter some topping mix on them.

If serving with icecream, make enough scoops in the morning, and pop them in the freezer, in a bowl you can serve them in. Everyone can help themselves - saves you faffing about with it - and the bowl should help keep them cold for as long as needed.

Caramelized oranges. I did this recently and it was delicious. I served it with mascapone which went well.

How about sliced oranges in syrup?

Panna cotta...it really is as simple as heating milk, cream and sugar in a saucepan and leaving in the fridge for at least 3hrs. You will need to set it with vege-gel if you are vegetarian. Look on the packet to see how much sets what volume of liquid and use a bit less than stated to achieve a nice wibbly panna cotta

I sometimes do a tropical one set on canned coconut milk, mango, lime and a passionfruit coulis. You can turn them out of the mould by placing in boiling water for 5 secs or set it into a individual glass dish and layer with fruit and berries of your choice