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Impressive dessert required .....tomorrow!!!

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SilverLining · 04/10/2004 18:40

Anyone help with a vvv easy pud to make for family dinner tomorrow night! I offered to make one half heartedly and was immediately taken up on it!! I'm actually quite a good cook (if I do say so myself!!!) but pudding is not my forte! It can't be chocolate and ideally would be a lighter alternative although myself don't see the point in pudding if its not wicked!!! I've got till tomorrow night and have to get provisions from central london supermarket in lunchhour so any suggestions vvvvv welcome!!! I know you can do it!! Thanks in advance! xxx

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acnebride · 04/10/2004 18:59

Syllabub?

Not exactly light but it's traditional English, luxurious and absolutely could not be easier. also about the only 'real' pudding you can have while on the first 2 weeks of the Atkins diet

Of course, now I've forgotten the proportions! Basically it's cream mixed with a small amount of alcohol and lemon juice. I'll have a look for a proper recipe.

acnebride · 04/10/2004 19:02

Here's one - thanks to thefoody.com

Serves 4-6

600ml (1 pint) Double or Whipping Cream
300ml (½ pint) Madeira or Marsala Wine
1 tbsp Caster sugar
Pinch Nutmeg
Unwaxed lemon

Whisk the cream until stiff. Mix the wine sugar, and nutmeg together. Add the whipped cream.
Divide between 4 to 6 tall glasses. Grate the lemon over the glasses to decorate with zest.

Leave in a cool place for several hours or overnight before serving

lilibet · 04/10/2004 19:09

sparkling wine jellies with summer fruits

10 minute raspberry cheesecake

unlikely lemon gateau

I know a lot of people can't stand her but I do trust St Delia!

jodee · 04/10/2004 19:21

This is another peasy one (from 'Great Food for Kids'):

serves 4

150g fresh strawberries/frozen raspberries (thaw thoroughly first)
100g mascarpone cheese/creme fraiche
4 meringue nests

Hull strawberries. Mash 2/3rds of them and puree mixture with handblender.
Mix 1/2 puree with m.cheese/c.f. until smooth.
Add remaining puree and stir gently to get marbled effect.
Chill mixture in fridge for 15 mins.
Halve remaining strawberries, spoon puree mixture into nests and decorate with strawberry halves.

For a boozy pud add 1 tbsp fruit-flav liqueur to mixture.

DelGirl · 04/10/2004 19:36

Lime cheesecake.

Crush ginger biscuits (about a pkt and a half for a largish one) and mix with melted butter and pat down into greased dish, abouut 1/2 inch thick. Mix mascarpone cheese, usually 2 tubs with icing sugar to taste, not too sweet. Then add lime juice to taste, usually 2/3 tblsp. Put on top and put in fridge, I add either Kiwi or strawberries or both to the top and a sprinkling of flake. yummmmm!

froot · 04/10/2004 19:44

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expatkat · 04/10/2004 19:54

I have an amazingly easy orange almond cake recipe, a variation on Nigella's clementine cake, which she says is the easiest cake she knows. I served it at a dinner party last week and it went down a bomb. It looks even more impressive (& is even better) when you servie it with a dollop of creme fraiche on the side of the plate.

If it sounds like the right sort of thing, I'd be delighted to post the recipe for you.

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SilverLining · 04/10/2004 21:09

Thanks everyone! Seriously tempted by all of them!!!

Acnebride thanks for the atkins tip - know for sure that at least one person is cutting down on the carbs so could be a winner!

Lilibet - thanks, I'm a Delia fan myself and have made a note of all those ideas! Is it me or does the jelly one seem almost good for you??!!

Jodee - never mind that for a dinner party, I'm thinking of having that on my own watching TV tonight!!!! Yum!

Delgirl - vv easy - like the look of that! Might make individual ones as I've done little banoffi pies before - if they look smaller I seem to feel less guilty!!!

Froot - love the name Boodles Fool and could def get everything from city supermarket tomorrow, would it be the end of the world if it only had 2 hours to set?? Trying to get DD to sleep before babysitter comes and prepare a pudding might be pushing it!!

Expatkat - yes please if you don't mind posting it I would be vv interested in it!

Thanks everyone - knew I could rely on Mumsnet to sort me out!!! xxx

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MeanBean · 04/10/2004 21:36

Amaretti biscuits, plums, custard, mascarpone and ricotta or fromage frais or creme fraiche.

Biscuits on the bottom, crushed, plums either slightly cooked if firm, or just mashed up (with skins) if nice and juicy, on top of the biscuits, and then the layer of mascarpone, fromage frais and tin of custard all mixed together on the top.

Delicious, quick, and impressive.

SoupDragon · 04/10/2004 21:41

I was going to recommend my mother's "Lemon Delicious" but I've lost the recipe!! It's a lemon dessert and you put the mixture in a biggish, deep souffle dish and when it's cooked it separates into a wonderfully light fluffy sponge on top with a creamy, moussey layer underneath. I'm salivating just thinking about it... Must email her to get the recipe again!

acnebride · 04/10/2004 22:03

Oh, SD, that's my favourite of my mother's recipes and I've never learned how to make it!! If you get it could you post it?

wonder where it came from? mum used Constance Spry a lot

SoupDragon · 04/10/2004 22:05

My mum got it from her cousin (now deceased unfortunately). We had it throughout my childhood... right emailing mum now!

expatkat · 04/10/2004 22:27

Orange & Almond Cake

2 large oranges
6 eggs
250 g ground almonds
225-250 g sugar
1 tsp baking powder
butter & flour for the tin
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Wash & boil oranges (unpeeled) in a little water for around 2 hours.
Let them cool, cut them in half and take the seeds out. Put in the processor & reduce to pulp.
Preheat oven to 190
Butter & flour a 21 cm springform tin
Beat the eggs. Ad the sugar, almonds & baking poweder, adding the orange pulp.
Pour into the tin. Bake for around 1 hour or until a skewer comes out clean. You may need to cover the top with foil or greaseproof paper (I didn't). Cool in the tin. East with creme fraiche.

IT IS SO TASTY. I was very cross at my guests for polishing it all off.

wizzysmum · 04/10/2004 22:34

My 2 easiest recipes
1.lemon sorbet in a champagne glass with vodka (preferably Stolly) poured over it, sprig of mint on top - as had at Cala di Volpe in Sardinia

  1. heat raspberries with vodka(!) serve warm with fabulous vanilla ice cream. Had in a posh Scandinavian restaurant.

Notice a theme?? May not be posh enough for what you need now but both instant, delicious and worth a try.

yoyo · 04/10/2004 22:41

Frozen berries with a white chocolate sauce

500g frozen berries
225g white chocolate (buttons or grated)
284ml double cream

Put choc and cream in heatproof bowl over a pan of simmering water for 20-30 mins, stirring occasionally. When sauce is hot you're away! Divide berries onto 4 plates and leave for 10 mins to take chill off. Put hot sauce in jug and pour over berries at table. (M&S do great berries).

Sublime! Does the white choc make it a no-no?

woodpops · 05/10/2004 08:27

Barbados creams, they're fab. Ideally you'd have made them last night but if you make them now you should be ok. You'll need equal amounts of double cream and natural yogurt. Whip the cream to yog consistency. Mix together. Divide into ramekins and top with muscavardo sugar. Cling wrap and bung in the fridge. Some how the chilling process makes a lovely sweet juice at the bottom of the ramekin. Thir best left in the fridge over night. They are absolutly delish and so simple. Always get asked for the recipe and when given people can't believe how simple it is!!!! Good luck tonight

albert · 05/10/2004 08:57

My favourite emergency posh pudding is Eton Mess - chop some strawberries add some smashed meringues and mix it together with whipping cream et voila. Very easy, very yummy and probably very fattening!!

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SilverLining · 05/10/2004 12:27

You are all wonderful!!! Totally spoiled for choice and think I will have to have a pudding party and have the girls round for pudding and wine!! Have to try them all!!

Thanks again - know where to come to if I have another dilemma!! xxx

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mothernature · 05/10/2004 12:38

easy peasy dessert:
1 tin of sliced peaches
4oz of either ginger buscuits or the fancy smancy ones I can't remember the name of..
1 tub of creme fresh
1 tub of marscapone cheese
1oz of caster sugar

Place roughly crushed buscuits at bottom of tin,
layer peaches on top drizzle some of the juice over, mix cheese and creme fresh together layer over the peaches sprinkle with caster suger, put under hot grill until sugar melts, Serve.. mmmm

woodpops · 05/10/2004 15:08

Let us know what you make!! Bit late for Barbados Creams now.

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SilverLining · 05/10/2004 15:35

OK OK OK OK - nightmare day at work (long story!!) but not much time to get anything! Managed to shoot into M&S just now and grabbed some strawberries, raspberries, double cream and meringue nests and its going to have to be an eton mess! DH is working late (arghhhhh!) so I'm home alone with 2.5 year old DD so thought we could make it together! Damn it - not only a domestic goddess but a dream mother too!!!

Thanks everyone - I will be making them all!!!

Now, I do a mean malaysian chicken curry if anyone is interested ....

xxx

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expatkat · 05/10/2004 16:39

I think an eton mess is perfect for a harried day. And I'm sure it will be enjoyed.

And YES I would be interested in yr malasian chicken curry.

Hope it all goes OK tonight.

Spanna2 · 05/10/2004 17:29

Soup Dragons mum's Lemon Delicious sounds similar to Jamie Oliver's Lemon Curdy Pud. Delicious!!

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