Cheap dessert/pudding ideas?

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We will have friends and family to stay over Christmas and I will need at least 3 different desserts. I normally make Nigella's Irish Cream Tiramisu which is AMAZING but when I added the ingredients to my shopping basket online it would have cost over a tenner to make- one dessert for 6 people!

So I am looking for some cheaper ideas. I can do crumble one night but need ideas/recipes for the other nights.

Thanks in advance.

Bread and butter pudding, Creme brûlée, pavlova. Don't think any of those can be too expensive. In fact if you do pavlova with one of the others it's a good way of using the yolks and whites off the eggs.

Orange & Vanilla poached apricots.

250g soft dried stoned apricots

I tbs runny honey

3 large oranges

Half a vanilla pod, split open

Take the zest of one of the oranges & the juice ofall & put in a pan with the honey. Warm to melt & then add the vanilla pod, scraping some of the seeds into the juice. Add the apricots & simmer gently (with lid on) for 20 mins. Cool.

Serve it on a small plate (or in a pretty glass) with a big dollop of Greek Yogurt at the bottom, some apricots & juice poured over. If you want to be really fancy pants stick a brandy snap or thin biscuit prettily in the yogurt.

You can make it the day before & assemble when ready to eat.

It tastes as if you had slaved for ages & spent ££££££££££.

Steamed syrup pudding. Treacle tart. Cornflake tart.

Crumbles

Eve's pudding

Baked apples

Rice pudding

Bread & butter pudding

Cheesecake (use value cream cheese & digestives/gingernuts, it's still delicious). Lime & ginger is the favourite in our house, with some dark chocolate shavings on top it looks stunning.

Lemon posset. Can serve with shortbread (hm if you like) and/or anything like raspberries

Homemade truffles

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2186638/lemon-crunch

This is bloody delicious.

Sticky toffee pudding. I normally freeze a batch of Nigella's individual ones if I have guests coming.

^ Forgot to say .. I normally defrost, heat and serve with warmed toffee sauce and ice cream or cream

pavlova is cheap and easy - decorate it how you like, I prefer chocolate to fruit.