Easy dessert

[HM]

We're having people round for a BBQ on Sunday.  My sister is providing two desserts - white chocolate cheesecake and a fruity pavalova - but I need to make something else.  I normally go for something chocolatey, but want to avoid this due to the white choc cheesecake.  Does anyone have any ideas? 

There are a few restrictions: I'm a veggie so it can't include gelatine, I'm also pregnant so can't have uncooked eggs / peanuts etc, and ideally I want something I can make quickly due to my morning sickness!  Any ideas welcome - if not, it'll just be fruit salad I think!

[woofgang]

how about a granita from here?

[joyceygold]

We had a BBQ on Saturday and my speciality dessert is one I brought back from the states years ago after visiting colleagues.And its soooooo simple to make.

Take 1 or 2 ( depending on numbers ) Large tubs of Fromage frais.

Add chopped pineapple, mandarin segments and mini marshmallows ( not sure if they contain gelatine its worth checking. If they do, use broken meringue and add just befor serving )

Mix all together and crumble a flake over the top. Put in the fridge for a couple of hours and hey presto !!.. Enjoy !!

[nicola_red]

Marshmallows do contain gelatine, and I think meringues contain uncooked eggs so that might be no good either.  How about this - soak ginger biscuits in orange juice for a few moments and arrange stood up on their ends in a line on a long tray, then cover with whipped cream and chocolate flake.

[ursula62]

How about "dusky virgins"?  You need to make this the night before.

In a large serving dish, add the drained contents of a tin of pineapple cubes (or fresh chopped pineapple). If you like alcohol, add a tablespoon or two of brandy (optional). Whip some double cream until it peaks. Stir in a large tub of greek yoghurt and then pour the cream/yoghurt mix on top of the chopped fruit.  Sprinkle the cream with a couple of tablespoons of demerara sugar and put in the fridge overnight. The demerara sugar dissolves and forms a brown topping over the yogurt and cream a bit like a creme brulee without the blowtorch!

[dmsjps]

If you make up a big batch of merangues the night before, you can just whisk up fresh cream on the day and prepare fresh fruit to go with them. If you want to make it into a pudding, you can pile all the merangues together, cementing them with the fresh cream and popping bits of fruit in here and there, then just leave the rest of the fruit in a bowl next to it in case anyone wants more.

[simont]

My wife says summer pudding is a favourite, though she doesn't have a recipe.  There should be one in any good cookboo k or here on the web.  It is basically, a pudding basin lined with white bread then summer fruits poured in (she always uses frozen) and she thinks also orange juice and sugar maybe, then when all the red juic has soaked through the bread you can turn out the basin and it stands up by iteself.  It's very dramatic and just yummy.

Also you could do cheats banoffee pie: dead easy, digestive biscuit base. Put in fridge to chill.  meanwhile, back at the ranch, boil a tin or two tins depending on size of full fat condensed milk for about three hours, (your just boil it in the tin and just keep making sure it doesn't boil dry) spread the boile condensed milk which has turned into toffee over the biscuit base once it has chilled hard, place sliced bananas over it and cover with whipped cream and a dash of grated chocolate.  Bob's your mother's brother.  Even I can make this and it is dead yummy.

[Morrisonker]

Strawberries soaked in champagne (or just sparkling wine.  I'm not sure about an alcohol free version I'm afraid), stick them on a skewer and wrap them in foil.  Put them on the BBQ for a few minutes and let them warm up. Gorgeous.  Also, if you choose to do something chocolately get a banana, cut length ways through the skin (keep the skin on until eating) and pop some squares of dark chocolate in them and again, wrap them in foil and BBQ them til the chocolate melts.  It has to be dark chocolate though, milk is just too sweet.

[TraceyLucy65]

I've made a dessert using ginger biscuits, which by the way are great for morning sickness! Just crush the biscuits, but into fairly largish bits, and mix in a jumble with canned madarin orange segments (drained) and whipped cream, or half cream and half yogurt for a lighter version.  Serve in a big bowl for folks to help themselves.  Decorate with orange rind shavings or a crumbled Flake.

[nfn]

Special fruit salad. Use passion fruit, papaya, kumquat, pineapple, sharon fruit, ugli fruit, siphallis (sp), mango, blueberries, bit of peach and melon and lots of strawberries. Most of the fruit will juice itself so just add a little fresh tropical fruit juice to top up. A few fresh mint leaves to garnish. It's fantastic.
Incidentally I prefer summer pudding made with trifle sponges instead of white bread. Line a pudding dish with clingfilm then line that with sponge/bread (sides and base so there are NO gaps). Fill right to the top with summer berries. Add a final layer of sponges/bread and cover top tightly with clingfilm. Chill at least overnight. Superb.

[nfn]

Meringues have cooked eggs. You cook meringues otherwise you'd be serving slop!

[nicola_red]

No nfn, meringues contain raw eggs - see:

http://www.safetables.org/Foodborne_Illness/preg_sheet.h tml

[nfn]

In that case, so do cakes

[nicola_red]

They do indeed - most of the desserts people have suggested here aren't 'cakes' as such.