From spectacular through lower-cal to everyday delights: memorable beautiful treats and desserts for the festive season...
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| Merry Christmas all! |
Some of these recipes are so easy the kids can make them, and some healthily vegetarian or vegan but so good you wouldn't know it! And for the time-challenged, there are 'cheats' treats using supermarket friends.
Enjoy and have a very Merry Christmas!
Many posted Prices do not reflect recent inflation; note the dates on the indidividual posts.
1. SPECIAL OCCASION -- Pure Indulgence
Egg Nog Truffles: boozy, creamy rich indulgence, surprisingly easy to make
Choco-Mint Croissant Bread & Butter Pudding: Truly To die for. Households have been known to make one for Christmas Mass supper and another for Christmas Day. Rich, light, gooey, with a crispy top, the intensity of chocolate sends guests into raptures. Cook's Delight: its made 3 days before it's needed and and forgotten until it's time to bake.
Upside Down Cheesecake: Adapted from Heston Blumethal's mother, this sensational classic cheesecake doesn't take long to put together but the cooling/wait time is virtually all day! It is so worth every minute -- it's skinnier and lower in fat, and the crust is served separately to accommodate gluten-phobics
Blackberry Whiskey Ginger Cheese-cake:sophisticated, with kid's version
2. FESTIVE FABULOUSLY FRUGAL & WALLET-FRIENDLY
Creamy Pineapple Glazed Pudding, thrifty, easy
Boozy Orange Marmalade Bread & Butter Pudding: Inexpensive but yummy with an alcoholic twist
TEA-TIME TREATS
Light Gingerbread Sheet Cake - gingerbread cake but not as we know it, Jim: it's lighter and less gummy but fine textured and 'scrummy' without losing its gingery-ness!
Spicy Plum Pineapple Crumble Cake: fab egg-free tea-time treat
3. DIETERS' DELIGHTS
Skinny Chocolate Peppermint Mousse: No cream unless you want it as a topping - and the pudding's choolate flavours are still deep & dark
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| Light & lovely but still intensely chocolatey; no-bake, butter-free, cream optional |
Tiramisu Pudding: less fat and fewer calories: fabulous layers of creamy filling, coffee dipped ladyfingers & chocolate ganache; enlist the family to help
Luscious Lemon Pudding: gloriously gorgeous crowd-pleaser; yoghurt lightens & enhances creaminess and flavour; Foolproof lemon curd instead of shop-bought elevates the dish
4. Easy-Peasy
4-ingredient shortbread: first class melt-in-the-mouth Scottish treat, needs only butter, sugar, flour and flavouring. And you can leave out the flavouring! Perfect for a cost of living crisis.
1 Recipe=2 Delicious Treats: Cinnamon Breakfast Twists for breakfast & Blueberry Scones for Tea: mouthwatering contrast of flavours
5. VEGETARIAN/VEGAN
Special Occasion Vegan Lemon Drizzle Cake: Indulgent, fat & egg free. Easily the best of the vegan cake recipes tested by 67goingon50. Truly fabulous taste & texture but cake has a maddening tendency to sink in the middle; not a problem, just fill the dip with some fresh fruit!
Cherry Garcia Ice Cream: Vegan, easy-peasy; the nicest, tastiest, healthiest ice cream ever; no cream - just bananas...
'Irish Coffee' Chocolate Cake': Vegan-glorious; Dark, rich and gorgeously chocolate, the cake is fine-crumbed and hints of whiskey. The frothy topping is served on the side or turned into icing
6. CHEATS' DELIGHTS
Cheat's Christmas Log: When the pressure's on, a good supermarket Swiss Roll, smothered in simple home-made chocolate ganache, makes a great impression.
For more Christmas dishes, see How to...on the Nav Bar above; they're 2/3 of the way down the page
These recipes have been developed by B Lee/ Bright Sun Enterprises and may not be reproduced without the author's written permission.
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