I need a pudding recipe - simple, basic ingredients but WOW factor...

[KBear]

not much to ask.

I have cake ingredients in, can buy cream or anything else tomorrow, need a wow idea for a post-BBQ pud that will feed 10.

Have looking through a zillion recipe books but am stumped...help me MNers!

trifle? (though not sure what type of crowd you have coming round!)

4 bird's trifles

Just mates, two other couples plus kids. We're going to them but we always chip in, someone makes pud, someone takes chips and dips etc.

Trifle is a good idea but I would need to make that tonight so it is set in time and I haven't got the right ingredients.

Pavlova - from the Nigella book - always do it and it always turns out great and never fails to impress - just need eggs, cream, sugar, strawberries or raspberries or some such soft fruit, cornflour and white wine vinegar!!

You'd probably need to do 2 for 10 people as everyone (except DH he bored of it by now!!) has 2 helpings.

I love a home made pavlova - always think they look impressive

Delia's chocolate bread and butter pudding or is the weather too warm for that yet?

Make a giant meringue base, top it with a small jar of toffe sauce, whipped cream and then spin some sugar shaped like a globe over the top! looks bloody impressive but is dead easy.

1 tin of Nestle condensed Milk
1 large tub of thick double cream
Juice and zest from 3 limes (or 2 limes and 1 lemon)
1 pack of ginger nut biscuits
and a knob of butter.

Melt the butter in a pan, crush the gingernut biscuits and add to the melted butter, mix together and then press into a flan dish and put in fridge to set.

Finely grate the zest from the limes/lemon and then squeeze the juice from them.
Empty the tin of condensed milk into a bowl, add the thick double cream and whisk together, slowly adding the juice from the limes/lemon and half of the finely grated zest.

When thick, put on top of the biscuit base and sprinkle with the remaining zest, put back in the fridge.

You now have a delicious and very refreshing Key Lime Pie

Found this in a Sainsbury's magazine.
Arctic circles
Makes 16 cookies (8 sandwiches, suppose could add 1-2 ozs more of each ingredient to make more dough)
8 oz soft butter
4 1/2 oz caster sugar
1 large egg yolk
6 oz plain flour, plus extra for dusting
2 oz self-raising flour
3 oz ground almonds (wonder if you could add extra flour if not got that)
1x500g tub good quality icecream, to serve (from the pictures, something with "bits" in like strawberries look good!)
Icing sugar for dusting
Salt

also need 7.5cm plain or fluted cookie cutter and 2 large baking sheets, lined with baking parchment.

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then mix in the yolk. In a separate bowl, sieve the flours and 1/2 tsp salt, then mix in the ground almonds.Add 1/2 the dry ingredients to the butter mixture and combine using a large metal spoon, then mix in the other 1/2. Bring mixture together to form a dough. Wrap in cling film and chill for 30 mins.
Preheat oven to 180 C, fan 170 C, gas 4. Cut dough in 1/2 and roll out on lightly floured surface 'til about 5mm thick. Cut out 8 circles and transfer to baking sheets, repeat with other 1/2 dough. Bake for 12-15 minutes 'til golden. Once cooked, cool thoroughly.
To serve, place a scoop of icecream on to a cookie, then place another cookie on top to make a sandwich. Lightly dust with icing sugar.

Something like eton mess?

You need rasberries, whipped (not squirty) cream, merangue pieces and very light sponge for the bottom.

Fill trifle glasses 1/3 with broken sponge. in a bowl, mix together the raspberries and cream. Spoon this on top of the sponge - heap it up. Then stick bits of merangue inn at random and spinkle with icing sugar or dark chocolate gratings.

Apple and blackberry crumble - exactly the right time of year for it and it is so yummy!

I made a bread and butter pud, with apples in it too, and it was just scrumptious with custard. They all devoured it and ds asked for it every day! It was in the good food mag. Post if you want me to put the recipe up.

home made tiramisu (for grown ups)~

a packet of sponge fingers - line up in the bottom of a large bowl

cold, strong coffee (instant will do) plus a large slosh of virtually anything alcoholic, well not wine of course!) - chuck these over the biscuits til soggy

a large tin or ready made custard and a large pot of mascarpone cheese - mix these together and bung on top of biscuits.

Dust with chocolate powder/ or grated choc...

Seems to go down well round here!!

these all sound great - can't decide. This might go for artic circles or pavlova. Thanks all.

Tigi - can you put your recipe on anyway - i love B&B pudding!

A proper Bakewell tart, tastes like yummy eggy marzipan, it is one of my favorite puds. It looks really good too in it's own simple way. You can make it in the morning too and then it needs nothing else.

toffee apple and brioche pud (bread and butter pud with apples)

2oz butter
6 apples peeled and cored and cut into wedges
6oz golden caster sugar ( i thought there was a bit too much here though)
568 ml double cream
400g brioche loaf cut into finger slices (I just used ordinary bread)
4oz raisins
4 egg yolks

melt butter in fry pan.
add apples and 150g of sugar. stir until caramalised and juicy.
Stir in cream. Bring to boil and simmer a bit
Strain apples over bowl to collect the cream.
Heat oven to 180/160c fan/ gas 4.
layer up dish with bread, apple, raisins. finish with bread and raisins.
whisk egg yolks into cream, and ladle all over pud,
sprinkle remaining sugar and bake 35-40 mins until puffed up.
Serve with custard or ice cream