Xmas deserts, what say you ?

[gremlin]

Anyhow....

Am I weird for having a mince pie with my Christmas pud? Mrs. G thinks so.

Depends.... ice-cream or custard ?

M&S extra thick double cream.

[Mr. Dazzle]

There is some irony in that I've had Steak for Christmas dinner the last 2 or 3 years running. I've been the only meat eater in the house the last few years.

I buy a very small fore rib roast / a very large rib steak and 'reverse sear' it on the BBQ. About 45-60 mins very low and slow with smoke, then 1 or 2 mins a side right at the end over screamingly hot coals.

The meat is about £40 from a proper old school butcher on the high street. Not Milton Keynes high street of course, we don't have one of those, Newport Pagnell.

[Silly Car]

Back on topic, I’m the only one in the family that likes Christmas pudding or mince pies come to think about it, so I doubt they’ll be on the menu on the day.

We are doing a split duty Christmas dinner this year, one daughter is doing the starter, second is doing the main event, I’m dealing with booze & desserts, current plan is a gallon of lady petrol, primitivo, Malteaser based cheesecake bombe and Jaffa cake torte.

The latter two assuming I can dream up a recipe and method for both.

[Mr. Dazzle]

We're having Christmas with the Danish rellies this year in er....Denmark....so for dessert I'll be getting into an Æbelskiver eating contest with my cousins.

[Rockburner]

Back on topic, I’m the only one in the family that likes Christmas pudding or mince pies come to think about it, so I doubt they’ll be on the menu on the day.

We are doing a split duty Christmas dinner this year, one daughter is doing the starter, second is doing the main event, I’m dealing with booze & desserts, current plan is a gallon of lady petrol, primitivo, Malteaser based cheesecake bombe and Jaffa cake torte.

The latter two assuming I can dream up a recipe and method for both.

Jaffa Cake Bread Pudding? (just popped into my head - no idea if it would work or not... )


My gf apparantly does a very good chocolate bread-pudding made with croissants..... but I've yet to see the proof of this.


Re Xmas puds: I love a nice steamy christmas pudding with brandy-butter, especially when it's been flambed with a liberal dose of 80%vol Stroh Rum. (talk about a "bombe surprise" )

Christmas cake: meh, it's just the same a traditional wedding cake isn't it?

Best things my mother used to make was her infamous sherry trifle (at least half a bottle of sherry into the sponge cake), haven't had that for a while. Or her lemon flan: hrahrarghargahgrahgrhagrhagrhagrhrhrhagrahgrhagrh (iirc it was a very old Delia recipe).

[Silly Car]

We're having Christmas with the Danish rellies this year in er....Denmark....so for dessert I'll be getting into an Æbelskiver eating contest with my cousins.

Every time you post a picture of that style of pan I google them and end up watching YouTube clips to see how easy they are to use…

Back on topic, I’m the only one in the family that likes Christmas pudding or mince pies come to think about it, so I doubt they’ll be on the menu on the day.

We are doing a split duty Christmas dinner this year, one daughter is doing the starter, second is doing the main event, I’m dealing with booze & desserts, current plan is a gallon of lady petrol, primitivo, Malteaser based cheesecake bombe and Jaffa cake torte.

The latter two assuming I can dream up a recipe and method for both.

Jaffa Cake Bread Pudding? (just popped into my head - no idea if it would work or not... )

I’ve previously had a brioche, marmalade, chocolate chip bread and butter pudding, it was very good which is one direction I could go but I don’t think the sproglets (28 years old on Monday ) like it. I blame their mother…

My thoughts were a layered cylinder of sponge, orange jelly and dark chocolate ganache with candied orange peel on top but I’ll check to see if the daughters like bread & butter pudding as I like the idea that as an alternative to cheesecake.

[gremlin]

I’m dealing with booze & desserts, current plan is a gallon of lady petrol, primitivo, Malteaser based cheesecake bombe and Jaffa cake torte.

The latter two assuming I can dream up a recipe and method for both.

I refer the Right Honourable Gentleman to my previous answer re a panettone bread and butter pud, dotted with bits of really dark chocolate and strong marmalade. Couple of splashes of scotch if that's yer thing. Make a cream and egg custard, pour it over and whack it in the oven for 30 mins or so.

Winner.

Buy some mince pies. Any leftovers can be made into mince pie ice cream by letting good ice cream soften a bit, then mixing in bits of the mince pie, all smashed up. Pop back in the freezer and enjoy all year round. Or make your own ice cream if you can be arsed.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Buy some mince pies. Any leftovers can be made into mince pie ice cream by letting good ice cream soften a bit, then mixing in bits of the mince pie, all smashed up. Pop back in the freezer and enjoy all year round. Or make your own ice cream if you can be arsed.

I have not bothered this year, for reasons mostly of laziness, but I sometimes make Mince Pie macaron.

Make macaron as you usually would (I'm sure you all do) and use a mincemeat buttercream as the filling. Said buttercream is a fairly normal buttercreamy affair, but with finely blended mincemeat and brandy included in it too.

Every time you post a picture of that style of pan I google them and end up watching YouTube clips to see how easy they are to use…

My Mum bought one on amazon after I made Æberlskiver at her house one Christmas...it's thin and shit. My (wife's) one is inherited, originally it came from Denmark, it's a big fuck off lump of solid cast iron and is way better.

My (wife's) Aunt Elsabeth has a big rectangular one which can do 20 at once

[gremlin]

Buy some mince pies. Any leftovers can be made into mince pie ice cream by letting good ice cream soften a bit, then mixing in bits of the mince pie, all smashed up. Pop back in the freezer and enjoy all year round. Or make your own ice cream if you can be arsed.

I have not bothered this year, for reasons mostly of laziness, but I sometimes make Mince Pie macaron.

Make macaron as you usually would (I'm sure you all do) and use a mincemeat buttercream as the filling. Said buttercream is a fairly normal buttercreamy affair, but with finely blended mincemeat and brandy included in it too.

Cheeky.

[Taipan]

Do you northern lot really have cheese with yer xmas pud?

[Silly Car]

Do you northern lot really have cheese with yer xmas pud?

Christmas cake or any fruit cake

[Taipan]

Do you northern lot really have cheese with yer xmas pud?

Christmas cake or any fruit cake

Right, i'm going to try it on Xmas day!

[Mr. Dazzle]

Northerners act like it's some great culinary mystery which is meant to surprise anyone south of Leeds, but its pretty standard now

[Druid]

I'm not northern, I'm just exiled up here but I've known and loved cheese and fruit cake for many years, well before moving up here.