What Christmas desserts are you doing? (Preferably prepare ahead)

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We have family staying for four nights so a lot of food will be eaten! Christmas Day will be Christmas pudding and a Vienetta. One day will be an apple crumble. But I need at least two more ideas. Not pavlova or trifle as I have done those umpteen times and fancy a change (although I am concerned that not providing them might lead to riots so I might end up doing them and one or two new things!)
All suggestions welcome! No dietary requirements to worry about.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/hazlenut_meringue_52923

TBH we don't really bother with desserts. We eat so much Christmas dinner that we are too full for dessert.

If we want anything sweet there will be chocolates and sweets among the Christmas presents.

Will your guests really expect a dessert every single day they are with you?

I’m making a lemon roulade to take to my mums on Christmas Day. I will be making a Yule log for Boxing Day when it is just the 5 of us at home.

Nigella White Chocolate Cheesecake

I made a nigella Yule log yesterday. Was the first time I’d made it and it was fairly easy and everyone thought it was fantastic.

White chocolate !!?? Behave yourself.
You want Delia's chocolate truffle torte

Stock up on / make posh ice cream.

Ferrero Rocher ice cream cake, and white chocolate and raspberry waffle pudding

I've done Delia's chocolate torte in the past and can recommend!

Trying this one this year, as can be made in advance and frozen:

https://thebatchlady.com/recipe/millionaires-cheesecake/

Can also recommend Simon Rimmer's chocolate roulade, which I first made about 15 years ago!
There's an archived recipe here, so the page layout is a bit weird, but it's easy, and delicious:

https://beebrecipes.co.uk/recipe/chocolatemeringuerou92088

ETA - I always lay the raspberries on the whipped cream before rolling.

Apple crumble
Chocolate lava cake
Trifile
Tiramisu
Christmas Pudding

I think there’s another one but I can’t remember…

I'm making lemon cheesecake and the mums are making a trifle and a tiramisu.

Chocolate chestnut pudding:

Cream 1 pint
Dark chocolate
Chestnut puree
Rum/brandy/whisky
Possibly some sugar.

Blend together in a fiod processor.
Refrigerate.
Top with grated chocolate.
Serve

Can't remember the ratios off the top of my head, can go and hunt them out if anyone will use it.

I wonder whether it would work with something other than rum...orange juice maybe?

Simon Hopkinson’s Sticky Toffee Pudding is a non-negotiable in this house:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/sticky_toffee_pudding_50947

Sponge can be made and frozen in advance, with just the sauces done on the day.

I serve it with home-made vanilla ice-cream.

You’ve got to have trifle,

we don’t bother on Christmas Eve really, to much of a rush to eat a proper meal, we have the ham and jackets or chips with salad there’s fruit yoghurt etc if anyone wants it, I might do a cheesecake if I’m feeling it,

christmas day - the choice of Christmas pudding or sticky toffee with brandy butter / baileys thick cream or home made icecream

boxing day will be tiramisu or a fruit /mixed berry platter for those that want something lighter I should think there will be more icecream as well ( I plane in making a few different ones later next week

at some point over the week there will be trifle apple pie, cheese cake Yule log.

i can feel the pounds going on as I think about it

I’m also making Bailey’s icecream:

https://www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/baking-and-desserts/baileys-ice-cream/

… although not quite sure what we’ll have this with.

On Christmas Day, Christmas pudding and Mary Berry’s chocolate roulade.

On Boxing Day, leftovers of those plus raspberry jelly and a winter fruit salad (we’ve got a ton of high end dried fruit to finish up, think dried figs, apricots etc and will add tinned pears and fresh orange slices to that, soaked in orange juice).

Yeah OP, how dare you want a dessert?! You are a symbol of the moral decline in this country. Nothing unnecessary but pleasurable, ever!

I have been making this for the past few years, although I don't bother with the prosecco layer.

https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/clementine-mimosa-and-panna-cotta-wreath.html

I was going to post the same. I mean why bother even replying?!!

😁

On reflection I would want something light and simple:

Syllabub
Lemon posset
Lemon mousse
Coffee mousse

I have done dessert before but it just doesn't get eaten until Boxing Day. Then it takes a few days to get eaten as there are only 3 of us.

DH and I usually share a small Christmas pudding on Boxing day or even a few days later.

We aren't competitive undereaters. We just like our Christnas meal so much we would rather eat more of that than have a dessert.

I know you said not trifle, but we do a Black Forest Trifle, which is trifle but different!

I don't know about OJ but there is another recipe here which uses coffee. BBC

We are very classic (and easy!) in our house.

Black Forest gateau for Christmas
Mint vienetta for Christmas Eve and Boxing Day

I buy them both obviously. No baking involved. I tried all sorts of things for years. But these are classics and everybody loves them.

I made an Apple strudel at the weekend which was very easy.

I also make fake steamed sponge puddings as in the microwave.

4oz butter 4oz sugar in a bowl microwave for 30 seconds

Add to this mixture 4oz self raising flour and 1 teaspoon of baking powder.

Add 2 whisked eggs plus a teaspoon of vanilla essence 1 tablespoon of milk and stir all together.

In a Pyrex bowl add 2 tablespoons of jam or golden syrup, put mixture on top and then microwave for 4 minutes.

They are really nice, a regular size Pyrex bowl makes 4 big portions.

Christmas Pudding
Mince Pies
Fruit Cake
Cheesecake

We do pudding Christmas Eve with cheese & Biscuits as always too full on the big day