Whats your favourite pudding?

[Lizzzombie]

I have to make a pudding for a dinner party on Saturday night & my recipie repotoire seems to be stuck in the 1970s.
Any ides on something relatively easy to make please?!

melting chocolate fondants - dead easy and quick. YOu can make mixture in advance. It is a nigella recipe and works every time - if you want i will post the recipe

my dinner party staples are a bit 70s too - chcolate fondants (I do the Gordon ones but they're much the same),
lemon tart,
tarte tatin,
Eton mess (ultra low effort, ideal for lots of people),
the Nigella chocolate marmalade cake served warm with creme frâiche,
or any old cake baked in a ring mould and the hole in the middle filled with fruit.

There was something else that I once made langues du chat to go with but I can't remember what it was - probably a fool or a mousse.

I like Nigella's chilled lemon rice pudding.

Other things I make recently:

• chocolate and cherry fridge cake (waitrose recipe made with Maya Gold chocolate).
• varieties of chocolate mouse/pts

(think the langue du chats might have been to go with lazy chocolate mousse - you know, fold 250g melted choc into 250ml whipped cream, chill, serve)

lazy chocolate mousse - that is genius!

(if you do it without whipping the cream it makes the best cake icing ever)

choclate sponge with fudge icing with custard

the famous LDC is always a big hit chez dishwasher!

lemon sponge pudding - v easy and yum. It separates out into light fluffy lemony sponge over a lemony custard sauce.

yum

These all sound delicious - thanks!
Mrs B: This Lazy chocolate mousse thing:
fold 250g melted choc into 250ml whipped cream, chill, serve

• Is that really ALL you have to do?

er, yeah

use double cream and either really high-cocoa milk choc (eg G&B) or half milk half plain choc

looks best done in individual bowls as it's not v elegant to serve

or apparently you can line a cake tin with cling film, smear it in there and chill till v firm, then turn out really carefully onto a plate, peel off clingfilm, dust with cocoa powder or icing sugar and serve like a cake in slices - I've never been arsed to try this as we have good stemmed glass dishes.

lemon cheesecake with a gingernut base quick easy and delicious

I love it but, cheesecake is really hard to make.
Please prove me wrong!

8 or 9 inch springform cake tin

200 grams of gingernut biscuits bashed (good therapy)

In saucepan melt 100 grams butter add 50 grams soft brown sugar and the bisucits mix well put in tin press down put in fridge

Have a drink (grin)thats the only cooking youneed to do

In one bowl mix 350 gs of full fat philidelphia cheese with 6 tablespoons of lemon juice can add the zest of one lemon but not nec and 75gs of caster sugar.

In another bowl whip 150 mls of double cream, add to the cheese mix, mix together and spread on top of bisuit base. Put back in fridge until ready to eat.

Job done

Mrs Badger, thanks for chocolate moussey recicpie, it went down a treat. Easy peasy! x