Good pudding please

[Citygirlrurallife]

Got family friends coming for dinner Saturday, doing a roast, need a pud that is child friendly and not chocolate. I’m bored to death of making crumble and apple or pear or rhubarb pie

any recs?

I normally do an almond cake:
250 gr of grounded almonds
250 gr of sugar
3 big eggs or 4 normal ones
Lemon zest

Mix all, put in a 22 cm mould, oven at 180 until golden. Decorate with icing sugar

As you'll be stuck for time, just make life easy. Ice-cream, berries, strawberry syrup to drizzle - or any other easy toppings.

We've got people coming on Sunday and I'm making a mango and passion fruit pavlova and a treacle tart with clotted cream. Steamed syrup pudding and homemade custard always goes down well too, or poached pears with a homemade cinnamon ice cream.

Trifle, simple to make, sherry can be added to give it a kick, adult and children friendly

banoffee!!

Bread and butter pudding but made with malt loaf. It’s like chewy toffee and custard had a baby.

Strawberry flan. Buy flan case in supermarket. Strawberries and red quick gel. Then whisk up some double cream. An absolute favourite and not too heavy after a roast

i bloody love banoffee but there TWO weirdos coming who don’t like banana. Maybe I’ll uninvite them

Oh wow - this has never crossed my mind! I’m def going to give it a go on another night (have now decided to go with Bosh sticky toffee pudding)

there are lot of ideas here I’m bookmarking - except the meringue ones - yuck

Absolutely - brush them off , make the banoffee pie , it is delicious .

Who has vetoed chocolate though (you know some strange people !)

For future try this cherry clafoutis - I make it with defrosted frozen cherries

Cherry clafoutis with clotted cream Recipe | Ocado

This is well loved by my family and friends. They ask me to make it for any occasion.

I’m not a fan of elderflower, so, i don’t include it. Nigella prefers to have double cream with it, but, custard is my favourite.

I also like that really thick cream that you have to spoon out of the tub. Man alive that’s good.

https://www.nigella.com/recipes/lemon-and-elderflower-pudding-cake

I make nigella clementine cake on repeat but mix it up with lemon during the year so good with cream.

Slightly off topic, but I made lasagne last week and came across Mary’s recipe, which was insane.
Her method is to boiled the bolognaise sauce in the oven for an hour and a half.
And then chill the completed lasagne in the fridge for 6 hours.

I mean, really. 8 hours to make a bloody lasagne??
Apparently, Mary came up with this recipe in the 70s, and the only thing she’s changed since then is to use olive oil instead of dripping.
I used her recipe for the béchamel sauce and that was it!

I love that, but my husband isn’t a fan, so i don’t bother.

Looks like a fab recipe for the summer, I do a fair bit of foraging so this will be perfect for then!

Fussy children on both counts

This is my go to for Sunday Lunch:
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/sticky-toffee-pudding
Serve with a choice of vanilla ice cream or cream

Just have ice cream on hand for any fussy kids.

I use the Delia Smith STP recipe that was originally John Toveys . It has Camp coffee ( blast from the past , I haven't drunk that since I was about 8yo but it is good in cooking ) , no treacle though .

I use the small pudding basins , they freeze well too .
I haven't done a large dish one , that looks worth a try !
Always a Christmas dish but it would work well any time .

Did my fail safe Bosh sticky toffee pudding and it went down a treat

Great thread, I so want a pudding now. Preferably syrup sponge with custard.

Pleased to hear it, OP. Good thread, too!

OH has made a lemon drizzle cake for tonight, following his dry sponge disaster. Yay.

Oh yeah I’m def keeping this thread - lots of excellent suggestions

Late addition but we has Delia Smiths Queen of Puddings at my mums last weekend. Bloody delicious!!