Desserts

[mo]

Puddings, afters, sweets...etc.

When I'm feeding my son in the middle of the night I often get inexplicably hungry, usually for something savoury, and was thinking about the crisps thread. But I definitely prefer sweet to savoury. So - what's your go-to pudding?

[Giggles]

Pecan pie.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Nothing with raisins, coffee or alcohol. However, the main things I look for are salted caramel and custard.

Also, at Christmas we made this: https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/chocolate-recipes/bonkers-bread-butter-panettone-pudding-tart/

And it's right up there in terms of the best dessert I've had.

[mo]

Nothing with raisins, coffee or alcohol.

See I don't enjoy either of these individually, but bloody love tiramisu. No idea why I would even have tried it in the first place.

[Shindig]

Probably some kind of cheesecake.

[mugbull]

Chewy chocolate chip cookie!

[Pepe]

Chewy cookies are the worst. Unfortunately, that seems to be the only thing that they serve over here.

[Bernanke]

Tiramisu is properly rated, and creme brulee is overrated as hell.

A homemade pannacotta with real vanilla is where its fucking at though. :drool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Tiramisu is properly rated, and creme brulee is overrated as hell.

A homemade pannacotta with real vanilla is where its fucking at though. :drool:

Might be the worst thing ever said on this board.

[Spikey M]

Tiramisu probably. But I'd rather skip dessert and go straight to the Cheese Board.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Nothing that involves chocolate, which is for children and dull women. Apple crumble and custard is the winner.

[Boydy]

Might be the worst thing ever said on this board.
Looks like we've got a competition on our hands in this thread:


Nothing that involves chocolate, which is for children and dull women. Apple crumble and custard is the winner.

Also, rhubarb is the superior crumble.

[Giggles]

Nothing that involves chocolate, which is for children and dull women. Apple crumble and custard is the winner.

I'd have put money on you saying eton mess, but crumble and custard would have been a close second.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Eton mess is the thing with meringues isn't it? Meringues can take a hike.

Bread and butter pudding also a good choice. Basically anything you can put custard on.

[Clunge]

Most citrusy things - lemon posset, lemon tart, lemon cheesecake, marmalade bread and butter pudding.

Or, most chocolatey or coffeey things.

[Clunge]

Oh and raspberries. Anything with raspberries.

[Clunge]

And sticky toffee pudding.

Worth triple posting for :cool:.

[Boydy]

Sticky toffee pudding can be hit or miss I find but the one I had at my work's Christmas dinner last year was probably the best dessert I've ever had. It was a Guinness sticky toffee pudding and it was amazing.

[mugbull]

Chewy cookies are the worst. Unfortunately, that seems to be the only thing that they serve over here.

You’re just trying to be a contrarian

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Looks like we've got a competition on our hands in this thread:


Cracking under the pressure of the SUPER POSTER TOURNAMENT clearly.

[Spikey M]

Bread and butter pudding also a good choice.

:sick:

[Pepe]

You’re just trying to be a contrarian

Nah, I really don't like soft cookies. I'll take a crispy one every time.

Are soft cookies a thing elsewhere, or just here? There are even places that sell raw cookie dough ffs.

[Panda Bear]

What the fuck is wrong with you to prefer a crispy cookie?

[Jimmy Floyd]

#teamchewy

[Disco]

Proper biscuits are far better than rubbish soft 'cookies' which is just a bit of underdone cake getting ideas above it's station.

Otherwise, Jimmy is pretty much on the money. I'd have rhubarb on a level with apple as the best crumble and honourable mention to junket as king of the set desserts.

[Shindig]

I'd have rhubarb as top crumble. Feels more like a treat than apple does.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

+1 for rhubarb.

Not having English desserts often is the worst thing about having forrin parents. Getting to eat crumbles, sticky toffee puddings etc etc at school was amazing.

As for American cookies they should have some chew.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Tiramisu probably. But I'd rather skip dessert and go straight to the Cheese Board.


Nothing that involves chocolate, which is for children and dull women. Apple crumble and custard is the winner.

I genuinely cannot understand comments like these, proper indicators of a wrong'un.

[Pepe]

By chocolate he probably means the sugary shite that is usually sold as.

[Giggles]

By chocolate he probably means the sugary shite that is usually sold as.

:rolleyes: Ah, one of those.

[Pepe]

:D

[Pepe]

I don't have a 'go-to' dessert, I hardly ever have any, but chocolate cake must be up there. The diner nearby also makes some beastly coconut cream pie.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Chocolate itself is OK but chocolate puddings, cakes, desserts, no thank you. They're so sticky and childish. I just get Bruce Bogtrotter vibes from the whole mucky setup.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

You don't have to eat them with your hands Jim.

[Spikey M]

Chocolate itself is OK but chocolate puddings, cakes, desserts, no thank you. They're so sticky and childish. I just get Bruce Bogtrotter vibes from the whole mucky setup.

I can eat chocolate desserts, if it involves real chocolate, but I detest anything that is 'chocolate flavoured'. Chocolate Milkshake, Hot Chocolate, Chocolate Ice Cream. All disgusting.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You can't include hot chocolate there, you've probably only ever had the Options bullshit or something similar.

This stuff is the tits:

https://www.charbonnel.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/17f82f742ffe127f42dca9de82fb58b1/c/h/charbonnel_26.9.17-066.jpg

It's proper chocolate.

[Spikey M]

If it's proper chocolate then it's not 'chocolate flavoured', and is indeed not included within my statement.

[Lewis]

This is hard one to answer. I want to choose what I think you can't really go wrong with, like in the way that you will struggle to find a shit bag of crisps, but these things tend to be hit and miss. You get as many wank crumbles with just a dusting of crumble or overly-thick fruit as you do good ones; cheesecakes have gone down the dickhead route and become all nonsensical and sickly; you come across some very mediocre cakes and puddings... I think, assuming that it maintaining its form once you get into it is the least you can expect, I'm giving it to trifle. I can't think when I've had a shit one other than when idiots make them too wet and it all caves in on itself. Even them quid box ones you make up yourself are absolutely class.

[Boydy]

I'll tell you when you've had a shit trifle. Any time you've had one.

They're old people desserts from a time when none of the population seemed to have fucking tastebuds.

[Spikey M]

Fuck off Boydy. Trifle is great, and actually, Lewis may well have changed my answer.

Tiramisu or Trifle.

[Giggles]

I love trifle too. Has to be the Mother's one though.

[Disco]

Trifle immediately handicaps itself by having a layer of wet cake at the bottom, unforgivable.

[Spikey M]

BUT we have swerved into dangerous territory here.

A trifle is set custard, jelly, cream and that bready shit. Hundreds and thousands are also allowed. 'Chocolate trifle', like my sister in law once brought round, can FUCK OFF into the 'chocolate flavoured' bin.

[Boydy]

Cold custard, jelly with chunks of fruit in it, fresh cream and wet cake. :sick:

You're all mad.

[Spikey M]

Actually Boyd, well off the garden trail here, you said about a 'Guinness flavoured something' somewhere. Possibly here, possibly the food thread, I can't be arsed to check.

Is that allowed in the north? Is Guinness a Republican thing over there? Or will Loyalists partake?

[Boydy]

It was in here. Guinness sticky toffee pudding.

And I can't tell if you're taking the piss or not. But you can get Guinness everywhere and everyone will drink it. There's never been any sectarian connotations to it that I've known of.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Protestants have to drink Carling, it's enough to make anyone turn to the rosary.

[Spikey M]

It was in here. Guinness sticky toffee pudding.

And I can't tell if you're taking the piss or not. But you can get Guinness everywhere and everyone will drink it. There's never been any sectarian connotations to it that I've known of.

I was partly taking the piss, but also actually curious. There must be an Orange or 2 that won't touch 'dat Catholic shite'.

[Boydy]

I was partly taking the piss, but also actually curious. There must be an Orange or 2 that won't touch 'dat Catholic shite'.

There might be the odd hardcore bigot like that but I've never encountered them. It's also in pretty much every pub whether it's in a Catholic or Protestant area.

[Boydy]

Protestants have to drink Carling, it's enough to make anyone turn to the rosary.

You don't really get it over here. Harp, Tennants or Carlsberg are the three regular cheap lagers.

[Spikey M]

There might be the odd hardcore bigot like that but I've never encountered them. It's also in pretty much every pub whether it's in a Catholic or Protestant area.

I once met a bloke that wouldn't drink 'German beer'.

He'll never have to worry about owning a German car luckily. Bless him.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm with Boydy btw, fuck trifle.

The only decent thing in it is the custard layer.

[igor_balis]

Meringue and chocolate eclairs are my mum's favourite desserts, probably her most incorrect opinion aside from loving astrology and being proud of me.

[mugbull]

I don't know what half of these things are, as they are very british, but I'll through doughnuts into the mix.

[Spoonsky]

Ice cream is my go-to. I'm a fiend for ice cream. However tiramisu is probably the best.

[mugbull]

I actually really don’t like ice cream. Or cakes, of any kind. Makes me feel unclean in a way that i can’t explain

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Absolute freak.

[Shindig]

Thinking about it, I've barely gone near ice cream as an adult. I feel like, when summer hits, I'd rather get the beers out.

[phonics]

Profiteroles have to win the award for ‘best sounding but never good’ dessert. Think I’ve got a 1/20 hit rate.

To confirm my middle classness, the best desserts are lemon sorbet followed by cheese cake.

[Jimmy Floyd]

What's a working class dessert, Angel Delight?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Angel delight and/or jelly with shit ice cream.

[Giggles]

No dessert.

[bruhnaldo]

You guys ever try Key Lime Pie?

[Spikey M]

Meh.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've had it but I suspect its merits are not necessarily accentuated when we look out the window and see clouds and 12 degrees on some dreary housing estate.

Same reason you don't see much crumble in Miami.

[Giggles]

Base good, citrus bad.

[Pen]

Tiramisu is probably my favourite, but since Sacher cake (ir is it tart in English) is great too and it hasn’t got a mention here so I’ll throw a shout out to that as well. I also love most things with licorice, but usually you only get decent licorice desserts in fine dining restaurants.

Grappa espresso is godly as a drink to have after a nice meal.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

ofc the Finn loves licorice.

[niko_cee]

I quite like Key Lime Pie, but it's another thing that varies wildly.

And there can be genuinely dreadful examples, even in it's homeland.

[Shindig]

What's a working class dessert, Angel Delight?

A big fucking tub of vanilla ice cream from Tesco.

[Pen]

ofc the Finn loves licorice.

It would need to be salty licorice to be really stereotypical.

[Lewis]

Angel Delight is ace. Try it with protein powder and oats. :drool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It would need to be salty licorice to be really stereotypical.

I can't even imagine how shit salmiak must be.

[mugbull]

Licorice is amazing actually. Nothing tastes remotely similar to it.

[Pen]

I can't even imagine how shit salmiak must be.

It’s not that bad. Don’t think anyone not used to it would enjoy it much though.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Licorice is amazing actually. Nothing tastes remotely similar to it.

False.

Muddy tree bark.

[mugbull]

You eat that when you run out of Doritos?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You eat that when you run out of Doritos?

Jokes on you, I don't eat Doritos.

[mugbull]

Oh shit, the joke is on me

[bruhnaldo]

Licorice is one of the worst things ever invented.

[mugbull]

Pen and I are the Palate Brothers

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Angel Delight is ace. Try it with protein powder and oats. :drool:

Really? I quite enjoy the purity of just having an entire packet's worth to myself in one go.

[Lewis]

Obviously use the entire packet. If you're adding protein powder though only use about 250ml of milk, rather than the recommended amount, otherwise it doesn't really set.