What's for pudding at Easter?

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Trifle. has to be trifle for us

I think I’m going for hotcross bun bread and butter pudding!

I make a simnel cake, to the same recipe as Christmas cake, except I use whiskey instead of brandy, and I make the 'marzipan' with pistachio rather than almonds. (And no royal icing, obviously.)

Mini egg pavlova nests

Hot cross bun bread and butter pudding.

We’re doing trifle, but we’ve also made simnel cake for over the Easter weekend ❤️

I will have nutmeg cake, possibly lime chiffon tart and I am looking for a third. I’m not doing trifle because I need to do it all from scratch and can’t be bothered. Some sort of apple cake, perhaps? Apples are in season here now.

Pear Belle Hélène, delicious, but easy to make and always looks so pretty. 🍐 🍐 🍐

Desserts I really fancy making at the moment are Tres Leches Cake, Burnt Basque Cheesecake, and Pavlova.

@AdaColeman
What is Pear Belle Helene? It sounds really interesting.

@greenlynx
It's a classic French dessert, poached pears, chocolate sauce and vanilla ice cream.

DS1 and I will be making a massive layered chocolate fudge cake decorated with a chocolate birds' nest with mini eggs and marzipan chicks, and a wreath of sugar daffodils, primroses and snowdrops. To be served with homemade vanilla clotted cream ice cream.

He's home from uni and wants to learn how to make lots of different cakes/desserts/sugarcraft/icings and frostings, so I'm having loads of fun so far we've done pecan and maple coffee cake, marble chocolate almond bundt cake, carrot cake and apple crumble.

Ice cream sundae inside half an Easter egg topped with mini eggs or creme egg cheese cake!

Christmas pudding! Always have an extra for Easter.

Pavlova

Nobody in my house has room for one, after a whole leg of roast lamb with all the trimmings, hot cross buns and Easter eggs…!

Lemon curd cheesecake this year

@AdaColeman
Thank you, sounds very nice!

DD and I are thinking about making Rocky road no-bake cheesecake from Coop spring issue. The only problem is that it serves 12 and there are only 3 of us. DH doesn’t think that it will be a problem though.

Sherry trifle - very generous with the Sherry!

A huge Yule log I got cheap and froze at Xmas.

@AdaColeman

Pear Belle Hélène, delicious, but easy to make and always looks so pretty. 🍐 🍐 🍐

Just messaged my 3 adult children to ask for their preferences, so watching with interest. Lamb for mains with Labneh and roast tomatoes, roast potatoes etc I was thinking a lemon tart with a fruit salad. I'm in awe of the Simmnel cake makers!

Sorry@ greenlynx, realise you've answered the question updated.

Wow! Thought it would be mostly chocolate puds. Thanks for the suggestions 😎