Dessert Ideas Please!

[chongalolo]

We're having dinner with friends next week - I said I'd bring a dessert. The hostess is already doing rhubarb crumble but wanted a second choice for everyone. One of the guests cannot eat dairy or gelatine, so please (Nickmo????) can someone suggest the perfect pud. I want something to complement the crumble...

[beryllium]

how about a really fabulous friut salad with a splash of Cointreau and sugar syrup thrown in?.....

[hammerman]

How about a very sickly banofee pie.

Cheat and by a pastry case from Tesco etc (or you could make a biscuit base from digestives.

Boil 2 tins of condensed milk...in the closed tins for 2 hours making sure the water in the saucepan never goes much below 1cm from the top of the tin

slice a banana and place on the pastry/biscuit base.

Carefully open the condensed milk tins after boiling for 2 hours and spoon the caramel mix on top of the bananas. Put in fridge to cool.

Add a cream topping....i use whipping cream.

Finnish with a broken up flake

[nickmo]

Hi chongalolo - challenge time eh?

fruit granita - blitz 3 bananas and the juice and zest of 2 limes with a little ginger beer and sugar. Freeze and serve in glasses with ginger snaps.

Fresh seasonal fruit salad - simple and good flavours, but dress with orange liqueur and serve with langue du chat biscuits and a chocolate fondue dip.

Orange compte with brandy peel and 'de-white' 1 orange per person. Cut to segments. Heat not quite to boiling some orange juice and a little brandy with 1 cinnamon stick. Remove from heat, pour over sectioned oranges and leave to chill 1 hr. Remove cinnamon and serve dressed on a plate with a reduction of the syrup round the edge and a garnish of sugared raspberries (dip in egg white then sugar and leave to dry) and blanched and candied orange peel strips.

Chocolate filled pavlova - make 2 standard meringues, melt some dark chocolate with a little whisky or liqueur to flavour and 2 egg yolks to gloss. When cool, sandwich the 2 together with the choc. and top with fresh strawberries. Cream for those that can...

Any good? Keep it light against the crumble and use what is in season for the best flavour. Have fun...

[sadbhe]

Try getting a litre of Lemon Sorbet, a bottle of (cheapo) Champagne, mix in a blender and serve in glasses. Decorate with some coulis and mint leaves.

[chongalolo]

Thanks for the ideas everyone! The challenge is met, and I will probably do a good fruit salad with booze. You obviously don't think that fruit would 'clash' with the rhubarb crumble so that's OK by me.

Actually I just remembered my favourite fruity dessert is sliced strawberries with raspberry sauce laced with kirsch. Yummmmm.....