What can I do with a tin of mandarin oranges?

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Hi all, I'm looking for ideas of a quick and easy (hot or cold) dessert I can rustle up with said tin of mandarins. I wasn't going to bother with doing a pud today, but we now have an extra family member joining us, so perhaps we need one after all.

Any suggestions welcome!

We always used to have them drained on top of a cheesecake.

Plain or chocolate orange trifle? Tinned mandarins go well in both.

Orange cheesecake?

Grand marnier sorbet?

Chocolate orange cheesecake.

Whizz them up, boil them down (with sugar if no syrup) and pour the result over individual blancmanges or crème caramel.

Or mix porridge oats with yoghurt and brown sugar and the mandarin segments.

Traditionally in our house in an orange jelly. Now I want orange jelly.

When I was a kid I used to like baking and made up a dessert which I then had to repeat many times as was so popular ( and wished I'd never made it in the first place😉 )
In a flan dish put a thin layer of sponge mixture and baked, when cold added manadarins to the top and a jelly over the lot, when cold and set added a layer of custard and whipped cream on top of that. Kind of like a trifle but cuts up into rather pretty looking slices.

Forgot to say if you use the juice from the mandarins in the jelly makes it extra orangey😋

Make a chocolate and orange cake

Same here, but that isn't going to set in the time I have available!

Some good suggestions though - my usual go-to is a fruit crumble, but we had that last week.

Ooh, I remember this from Year 8 Home Economics - you need one of those flan cases made of cake, a packet of orange jelly, some squirty cream and a packet of those sugared orange slices that you used to get at Christmas in the 80s. Arrange the mandarin bits in the flan case, pour over the jelly and when set, garnish with squirts of cream and top each squirt with a sugared orange. Magnificent!

This 😂 Everyone loves a retro pudding.

You can make homemade jelly with the fruit juice from the tin or orange juice.

Although, as we are taking retro puddings, tinned mandarins layered with crushed ginger nuts and natural yoghurt in a glass is surprisingly tasty. Bonus points if the glass is a goblet given away free in a garage promotion or with green shield stamps circa 1977. Even more bonus points if you tilt the glass as you layer so the stripes are diagonal 😂

For me either put them into a jelly, using the juice to make up the jelly with extra water if needed or a quick trifle: Some kind of sponge or biscuits drizzled with booze, mandarins, custard and then whipped cream. A couple of segments to decorate.

Wibble brand orange jelly sets in 1 hour ( and is nice!!)

Easy and delicious. Mandarin eaton mess

Send them here... Ddog is very partial to a tinned mandarin!!

Quick setting jelly (try world foods aisle. For a really retro experience but a flan case quick setting jelly and squirt cream

Top them with yogurt mixed with double cream, and then bung a load of soft brown sugar on the top. Leave it a bit and the sugar will kind of melt into the top of the cream mixture. V simple but looks impressive in glass dishes.

You've made me want to make a jelly fish now (orange jelly with mandarins in a fish-shaped mould; the mandarins look like fish scales).

Upside down pudding substitute the pears/pineapple with mandarins

Hmmm... most of those suggestions involve effort on my part a visit to the shops for ingredients though. For a minute I thought I could do @SunStorms idea as I have ginger biscuits and natural yogurt, but on further investigation the natural yogurt turns out to be raspberry flavour, and there's not much left.

Make an upside down cake. Mandarins and brown sugar in the bottom of a sponge tin. Top with sponge mix add the zest of an orange and an ounce of ground almonds if you have them.

Oh god now I can't stop thinking about cheesecake....😋 🍊

You are allowed to have crumble every week.
Do you have ice cream ? Serve it with mandarin slices or blend mandarins into the sauce.

@isitbananatimealready and technically the last week was March so you haven’t had crumble in April yet.

I really love crumble.

We have crumble a LOT 😂

I've decided to go with the upside-down cake suggestions, and the butter is in a dish on the windowsill gently softening as I write. DH is out at the moment, and has now been tasked with procuring double cream on his way back.