Christmas Day dessert?

[marshmallowkittycat]

I'm making Christmas dinner this year and it's just going to be me, DH and two sons. I'm not a Christmas pudding fan and neither are they.

What's your go to Christmas Day dessert? Preferably not too heavy, can be made ahead and not boozy as kids eating.

Profiteroles filled with whipped cream and served with a warm chocolate sauce. My go to Christmas dessert every year!

Gotta get vienetta ice cream in 😁. And mince pies. Honestly I would just buy some fancy desserts!

Buy one, save the hassle. Aldi had excellent ones last year

Mince pies with brandy butter or custard
And chocolate log!

Loathe Xmas pudding!!!

We might try sticky toffee pudding this year, its the only pudding all four of us like. There will also be a small Christmas pudding as DH likes it and we always have mince pies and ice cream available. To be honest though, the ice cream is normally enough, we're not massive pudding eaters.

We always get the fresh cream Yule logs as we aren't Christmas pudding fans either. I will make some sort of Christmas cake too but that will be eaten whenever.

@quince2figs

I made that pudding in my Domestic Science O level exam. I am nearly 64 now!!! LOL

Profiteroles

Delia Smith has a lovely Christmas Pudding Ice Cream recipe. I lived in the South Pacific for a few years and this always went down a storm at the BBQs.

Alternatively chocolate roulade, raspberries and cream.

I always make a chocolate log, but roll it up with sweetened chestnut purée inside, to be more festive, then glaze it with warm melted Nutella (which adds a hazelnut flavour) and lightly fork the surface to look woody, before dusting it with icing sugar “snow” and sticking in a spring of holly from the garden. I wash the holly and cover the stem tightly in tinfoil, to avoid germs getting in the log. The DC are grown up now, but they still insist on it every Christmas! And none of us like Christmas pudding either.

Sprig, not spring! Bloody phone.

I'm obsessed with these chestnuts -www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/chestnuts-cointreau-orange-syrup.

They keep for months and actually taste better with more time as the syrup soaks in better, so make them now ready for Christmas.

The easiest dessert is to purée them (with some of the syrup) in a food processor and fold in equal quantities of whipped cream. Serve with those fancy shortbread thins you can buy.

Or, only slightly more work, put it on meringue nests. Then heat the juice of one orange and add about 50g dark chocolate and poor over the top while still warm.

I think I still have a jar from last year. That's tonight's dessert sorted...

Pour, not poor. My phone's doing it too.

Ah those chestnuts sounds incredible @ChaosMoon. I’m going to make some this weekend.

I LOVE Christmas pudding, but eating it immediately after a massive roast was never a great idea.

Back in 1992 the BBC good food mag had a recipe for a spiced ice cream which we've had every year since (have the pudding on C Eve instead). It involves steeping the cream with cloves, cinnamon, allspice and lemon rind. Serving suggestion is with a thickened lime syrup (I'd be quite happy to leave this off, but we've reached the point of Tradition Dictates by now...)

Ooh recipe for that please, @merryhouse !

I like the traditional Scandinavian dessert, cold rice pudding with cherries.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/60pFDJWX9qqjh5KzPLdV5z5/scandinavian-rice-pudding-with-hot-cherry-sauce

@hotdogwoof not sure whether this is mummydoctor's recipe, but I can vouch for how good it is. It's all made in advance so you can just warm it up on the day. It's surprisingly light too. I make one big one in a 20x30 cm tin and extend the cooking time.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3682/ultimate-sticky-toffee-pudding

We're all keto so we'll have a burned Basque cheesecake with chia strawberry jam and then keto shortbread with a cuppa later on.

Chocolate Orange Trifle!

We make tiramisu the day before. It tastes so much better for being in the fridge overnight, plus it's one less thing to worry about on the day. It's practically mandatory now in our house

I did chocolate and banana baked Alaska with hit chocolate sauce last year- the kids loved the theatre of it, and I decorated it (after baking!) with little fondant penguins, Xmas trees etc and made it look like an iceberg. It looked v festive and was properly yum

Please will you share your recipe for the burned Basque cheesecake nonurin?

Not @NonUrinatInVentum but this is the one I use and it is delicious.

www.bonappetit.com/recipe/basque-burnt-cheesecake

If you have an icecream maker, make white chocolate and Christmas pudding icecream. Just buy a small ready made Xmas pud, and put it in a liquidiser with an appropriate amount of double cream and whizz in some melted white chocolate then set it off to freeze. If you transfer it into a pudding basin once frozen you can serve it as a Christmas pudding shaped thing.

Goes brilliantly with caramelised oranges (which is also very easy - just slice up some oranges, make a clear caramel sauce by melting and boiling sugar, and pour the sauce onto the oranges)

That recipe look delicious @mustardscreams, thank you 😊