OK I struggled with the music trinity, Laura Nyro, Jimmy Webb, Randy Newman, Joni, Kate Bush all possibles and many more besides, but when it comes to the Trinity of Puddings I had no such difficulty. Immediately and decisively springing to mind were:
Warm Chocolate Fudge Cake with Vanilla Ice Cream
Rhubarb Crumble with Custard
Lemon Cheesecake with Blueberries
Other people must be having Custard Cravings in this early autumn chill because the fresh stuff is not available online at my Tesco today. So what are yours?
crumble and custard – but going to have to go for apple and blackberry.
Lemon – but lemon tart and vanilla ice cream.
Tiramisu (this is truly a lifelong search for The One. There is never enough liqueur/mascarpone/coffee or not in the right amount. Too dry is the usual failing).
The Pizza Express Tiramisu is surprisingly good.
Waitrose Tiramisu also very good.
No, no, no, no, no. Tiramisu out of a packet/tub? No.
Apple and blackberry came a very close 2nd in my crumble choices. The blackberries are meant to be particularly good this year. I have had some pretty awful supermarket Tiramisus so have been a bit put off them.
Sticky toffee pudding with vanilla ice cream
Apple pie (with lots of cinammon) and vanilla ice cream
Fresh raspberries and vanilla ice cream
I can’t choose between toffee and fudge, so I’ll choose fudge cake with toffee sauce even if that means forgoing the ice cream.
Cheesecake – biscuit base, not sponge, creamy filling with some kind of tart berry topping to contrast. Sour cherries would do nicely.
Coconut ice-cream with lots of strawberries (some macerated, some just chopped into chunks).
You are allowed fudge cake with toffee sauce and ice cream. Anything goes here! (See Choc pudding and pink custard later in thread.) Once I went to a pub restaurant near Eastbourne and normally in places like that it’s a choice between ice cream or cream, they actually provided both as standard. Was quite amazed.
I agree with the cheesecake biscuit base, you need a nice crunchy contrast between that and the filling
Went to a Tapas Restaurant a couple of months ago.
My pudding that day, whilst every one else was tucking into ice cream etc, was:
Paella Valencia
Gambas Pil Pil
Tortilla
Classic pudding!
Yes, after the richness and varied array of flavours of tapas any pudding seems a bit much on top, so I can see why you would just continue with the joys of tapas. I’ve had just fresh strawberries in the past.
1.) Suet Pudding with Golden Syrup and custard.
2.) Rhubarb Crumble & custard.
3.) Bramley Apple Pie & Vanilla ice cream.
Simple.
Custard must be entirely lump-free of course and reasonably, not gluey, thick.
Rhubarb in the crumble must be only slightly sweetened.
Ditto the bramley apples in their pie.
Pastry light but not too thin on top of pie.
The ice cream needs to be quality stuff, no cheap rubbish.
I’m not really a pudding-person these days, but any of the above could tempt me.
Agree completely with the fillings being not too sweet and quality Ice Cream. I go for Haagen Daz which works out cost effective as it is so rich I only eat quite small slivers at a sitting. And no lumpy custard! I am a bit (possibly unfairly) prejudiced against custard powder thinking it inferior to chilled version.
Chilled custard has the right consistency but tends to be over-sweetened. You’d need a sharper-tasting pie or crumble to compensate.
1. Agree with: Rhubarb crumble with custard.
2. Cheesecake with fresh strawberries and fresh cream (see the English Cheesecake Company).
3. Eton Mess.
Runner-up: any steamed pudding and custard.
Your top three are mine too. I’d add crème brulée and panacotta for the ultimate impossible to choose dessert menu.
1) Cheesecake
2) Sticky Toffee
3) Pavlova
Butterscotch Angel Delight with a slice of Swiss Roll in the middle
Chocolate sponge pudding with pink custard
Cling peaches with evaporated milk
You, sir, are a fucking genius. Book me a table.
Innovative!
1. My own invention of Banana & Chocolate Ricotta Pie.
2. Gooseberry pie with custard.
3. Another invention, a pannacotta version of the traditional Swedish Christmas saffron buns. It has a saffron and vanilla flavour and contains shredded almond paste and raisins soaked in brandy… Sounds weird but is wonderful!
The pie sounds nice, banana and chocolate always work well, and the pannacotta sounds delicious but will pass on the gooseberries which I detest. Was once forced to eat a plate of them in primary school and I don’t like them any more than I did when I was 6!
Swedish cheesecake is fantastic, heated up with a few lingonberries.
Ah, yes; the mighty ostkaka (but I’d choose another berry, personally).
Ostkaka (for all of you non-Swedes) means cheesecake, but it’s a very different beast to any cheesecake you’re familiar with. First of all; it’s not a cake. It’s a baked dessert made with milk & cream, eggs, a small amount of flour, sugar and chopped almonds, and the ingredient that puts the cheese in its name: rennet. Very traditional, but you don’t bake your own anymore (where can you buy rennet?) you just buy it from the supermarket and heat it up.
Not a fan of gooseberries then, Carolina? We had gooseberry bushes in the garden when I grew up, and in the summer they were like candy dispensers to me – anytime I wanted some sour candy, I’d pop a gooseberry in my mouth. 🙂 We also had raspberry bushes, which I hardly ever touched! The odd thing is that I can’t stand sour candy of the artificial kind, but gooseberries I loved. Ripe gooseberries however, is an abomination!
And the difference between an unripe gooseberry and a ripe one is what exactly?!!
Really over-ripe gooseberries don’t actually taste of anything much. Just vague sweetness. And the texture is just wrong.
My late dad used to grow them in our back garden when I was a nipper and then later on one of his allotments.
My mum made good gooseberry jam. Also good rhubarb & ginger jam.
Vague sweetness sounds good to me!
Vegetarian ‘rennet’ is available. @Locust
That’s OK, I can live without making my own ostkaka! it’s not even in my top three… 🙂
Heinz chocolate pudding out of a can, Arctic roll, Vienetta.
Couldn’t think of two others.
That’s the trinity there, Moose. Oh just realised you eat them all together. That is puddingtastic as Smashy and Nicey might say.
Seriously, I had a Vienetta a few weeks ago. It was lush. And only a quid.
The chocolate pudding I’m saving for when Mrs M throws me out and I have to live in a bedsit.
I’d forgotten all about the noble Gooseberry.
Could possible be my #1. in a crumble with custard.
In which case all my previous selections would move down one place.
They may be noble to you but they are vile to me. Still each man to his own!
Cheese please Louise.
Cheesy Peas?
McVities Ginger Cake and Custard
Hot chocolate brownie and vanilla ice cream (No doubt about it…..)
Blackberry and Apple crumble and custard
@carolina are you going to collate the results into a definitive AW Trinity of Puddings? You’d have to decide if ‘crumble’ becomes a single category, regardless of whether apple/blackberry/gooseberry whatever; Tiramisu- fresh or pre-prepared? Ice cream- premium or Walls?
Definitely not, Ruby. Just deciding whether crumble is a single category is already too loaded. I don’t think I could put gooseberry on a par with apple for a start. (See my previous anti-gooseberry posts). Still anyone who wants to take up the challenge is welcome!
Ah, but I wouldn’t make a gooseberry crumble, I’d make a pie! 🙂
Queen of puddings (can’t believe I’m the first to mention this)
Bread and Butter pudding
Christmas pudding
(as you can see,Afterworders, my tastes incline towards the stodgy).
These would get my vote. Perhaps Spotted Dick over Christmas pud though. My third would be Jam Roly Poly, the school variety, served with custard.
Knew you’d be up for a spot of jelly roll with hot custard.
I expect you’d prefer these, Moose.
Seeing those made me drop me Kex!
My! What
you have!
Edit: Moose, your Knoppers have vanished!
Sadly, I had to withdraw them.
Well it is autumn.
Aye. The conkers are droppin’.
Well which is it?!!
Ah I wondered when Jam Roly Poly would get a look in, not to mention Spotted Dick (probably best not to mention it actually.)
Three puddings with pudding in the title – very good, Duco! I can’t remember what Queen of Puddings is though, if I’ve ever had it.
Queen of puddings? Here’s Charlotte Morgan with a quick video to introduce Afterworders to this magnificent dessert.
Mmm, looks very delicious.
Vanilla or caramel ice cream with evaporated milk poured over
Can’t believe…
Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o the puddin’-race
Address to a Haggis. R Burns.
Though only eaten the veggie version myself.
Rice pudding and jam would be on my reserves bench.
That’s a sticky bench.
Chortle.
Rice Pudding yes! But only with a nice “skin.”
Surely an oxymoron?
Oh, it has to have a skin, and burnt crunchy bits, too.
Apropos of nothing crumble is super trendy in Paris, or was when I lived there. Every posh resto has “le crumble” on the menu, and you can buy slices in the better delis to take home.
And it’s good fun listening to hoity-toity Parisians saying ‘crermble’…
Rice Pud.
Apple crumble and custard
Banoffee Pie
That’s the first vote in for Banoffee. I do like bananas but think would find the banana/toffee combo a bit too sweet.
The sweetness is leavened by the Olympic quantities of whipped cream dumped atop. My mum, being a genius, uses coffee cream, which works amazingly well.
1. Chocolate Mousse.
2. Anything chocolate.
3. Anything else chocolate.
Absolutely. You can’t have too much chocolate. I am often tempted by those chocolate melt-in-the-middle puddings then I see the calorie count and go for a low cal chocolate mousse thing instead. The low cal chocolate Mousse and Muffin dessert in M and S is very good.
Ambrosia Creamed Rice kept in the fridge and eaten directly out of the tin. A spoonful of strawberry jam can be introduced halfway down and stirred in.
Golden Syrup sponge pudding and custard.
Vanilla cheesecake which contains rum-soaked raisins.
Summer pudding
I’m rather surprised that no one has yet mentioned that most English of desserts for the hot season, Summer Pudding. Just the name makes my mouth water. All those delicious berries – raspberries, blackcurrants, strawberries, redcurrants, blackberries – that have let their juice seep right through the white bread casing, making a magnificent red and purple monument to the British summer. Some people might like it with cream, but I prefer it just as it is. Two helpings of course. Yum-yum.
Will have to pass on it, Duco, this is my least favourite pudding, with the possible exception of tapioca. The thing I dislike is the bread soggy with acidic fruit juices, the very thing that you like so much! Still I know it is very popular and traditional too.
Or try the Rumtopf, fruit and alcohol. A winning combination.
I love a buttery biscuit base, me
Definitely Tiramisu
Summer pudding, home made with blackberries you have picked yourself. with cornish ice cream
Banana and custard (ambrosia custard served cold)
Ahh banana and custard. That brings back memories. Used to be my favourite when I was small.
Sorry, bananas are the Devil’s fruit. The best thing that can be said is that they don’t smell too bad if they aren’t peeled.
As a banana fanatic myself, we will have to disagree on that, Dave, but Sweden has a popular chicken casserole made with chicken, bananas, cashews, bacon, cream, and chili sauce which is a step too far even for me. I think they put them on pizzas too!
@Locust or @Kaisfatdad can probably enlighten us more!
Hmm, Flygande Jakob (“Flying Jacob”) is the name of it, and I’m not sure how popular it is anymore actually – I think of it more as a 70s dish. And I’ve never tasted it, but I looked up the recipe and it sounds absolutely bizarre!
I’ve never seen a banana on a pizza, but I suppose it’s possible that it exists. I tend to make my own pizza, so I’m not all that familiar with the menues at pizza restaurants these days!