Help - dessert for 14

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I've volunteered to make a dessert for a party. There will be 14 people.

What shall I do?

Ice Cream with a choice of sauces: butterscotch, chocolate, raspberry coulis.....

Yes, I was just going to say - 5 cartons of ice cream and sorbet, some fruit and sauce. Job done!

Delia's chocolate truffle torte, it's so rick and sickly tha it goes on for ever!!

large pavlova also easy and works for these numbers as do trifles!!

Winter berry trifle
Frozen berries with hot white chocolate sauce ( although you'd needd to make this in situ, but v easy )
Delias choc bread and butter pudding
Lemon meringue pie
Tiramisu
Chocolate mousse

Tiramisu easy to do in a large lasagne dish .
Crumble and take vanillia ice cream
Trifle
Or make 2 smaller ones so people have a choice.

Black Forest Cherry Trifle

Or three old fashioned puddings, Lemon Meringue pie, treacle tart and apple pie.

I am not a big dessert fan, but if pushed I would buy a selection of homemade Indian sweetmeats- gulabjamon and the like and a huge platter of sliced fresh oranges marinated in rose water, dusted with cinnamon,and icing sugar sprinkled with toasted flaked almonds served with a bowl of creme fraiche. Looks impressive and very easy to do.

Or home made dark chocolate and Cointreau mousse, set in ramekins or for champagne flutes. Can be made the day before.

Ooh. Black Forest trifle

Chocolate sponge, soaked with cherry brandy or kirsch, tinned or poached black cherries. If you are of the jelly in trifle school, then cherry or rapberry jelly made with the juice or poaching liquid of the cherries.
Top with custard or half and half custard and beaten double cream.
Finish with a top layer of lightly beaten double cream, and a good covering of grated dark chocolate.

Decorate with cherries and or dark chocolate shapes.

You might have to make this at home as a trial, once or twice, in order to perfect quantities

I did the nigella baileys tiramisu for 12 a couple of years back - worked v well.

When I make Black Forest Trifle, I make the custard with single cream and I add some high cocoa content dark chocolate to the custard (it melts in the heat).

Raspberry Tiramisu - sort of a trifle, delicious and always goes down well.

www.womanandhome.com/recipes/292960/raspberry-tiramisu-recipe

Massive pavlova (3 tiers)filled with lemon cream and topped with raspberries and passion fruit.
You'd need a very big plate though.