Making a desert on a tight budget?!
Making a desert on a tight budget?
I have ￡5.00 pounds to make a pudding for 6 people on sunday.It can't include lemon, orange or lime and I don't want to make a triffle or pancake dish any Ideas?
Answers:
Buy a box of 6 brandy snap baskets (about ￡1.50)
Fill each one with some ice cream
Top with fruit (strawberries are in season and fairly cheap)
Add some chocolate sauce / chocolate shavings.
Cheap to make, looks posh, tastes delicious!
Kitten
￡5.00 won't buy you much sand.
Get the sand from the beach...I'm sorry...
y don't u go 2 the supermarket and get those puddings thet u just pour out n do sumthing 2 it but check the ingredients
Make a cake. They're inexpensive if you do it from scratch.
Graham cracker crust, pudding and whipped cream.
Well let me start out by saying that desert is dry and there's a lot of sand. I believe what you are wanting to ask is how to make a Dessert on a tight budget. I would suggest making bread pudding. It's delicious!
Apple pie or crumble served with custard, cream or ice cream
mincemeat pie
Angel Delight & sliced Banana, Bread & Butter Pudding!
I'd suggest Pavlova, I found a recipe here:
http://www.pavlova.co.nz/recipe.htm...
I reckon you could do that for under a fiver, the only expensive bit is some fruit for the top, but tinned fruit is just as good as fresh on a pavlova.
By white cake mix, chocolate frosting, and a chocolate bar. Make the white cake in two round pans and bake according to the directions. Frost the cake with the chocolate frosting after it has cooled, and then get the chocolate bar. Using a vegetable peeler, (or even a knife,) scrape the side so you make perfect chocolate curls. Gather them all on a plate and top the cake with them. It tastes great and looks professional! :)
It doesn't even cost 5 pounds!
what about a rice pudding made with vanilla,
chocolate mousse
little individual meringue nests (from asda etc) filled with berries and fresh cream
or have a look on www.videojug.com for inspiration
get 3 mangoes, honey, passion fruit, yoghurt
cut the mangoes into slices and put on a baking tray
cover them in honey and put in at about gas mark 6 (check google for celcius temperatures)
roast for 10-15 mins.
scoup out the passion fruit seeds into a plain yoghurt take the mangoes out of the oven and put on your 6 plates (arrange them like i fan) then add some passion fruit yoghurt to the right.
VERY TASTY!
Ginger biscuits layered with whipped cream.
make a bread pudding
take a nice crusty loaf of bread, cut into cubes, pour custard base over it (eggs,milk,sugar,nutmeg,cinnam... add some butter cut into little pieces and raisins. bake in a greased baking dish until custard sets at about 350F.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Spray glass pie pan with cooking spray. Pour in 1 can pie filling (apple, peach, blueberry or cherry), sprinkle with ground cinnamon (optional). Top with dry yellow cake mix (Jiffy brand which comes in an 8 oz box is best or 1/2 box any other brand). Top with 3/4 stick butter, thinly sliced. Bake for about 35-45 minutes or until bubbly & browned.
bananas and custard - a taste of childhood!
Fruit Crumble:
lots of sliced apples, peaches, pears, etc. (or just one of them)
covered with a topping made from equal parts brown sugar and flour with enough unsalted butter mixed in to make a crumbly consistency. (I use 1 cup flour, 1 cup brown sugar and 1/2 cup butter for 10 people.) Bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour at 350°F.
P.S. A teacher once told me that dessert has two "s" instead of one because you always want more....
Do you have fresh fruit?
If you do - Use the fiver for ready-made pie crust and make a fruit pizza.
Pie Crust as dough
Cream cheese, yogurt or ready-made pudding as the sauce
Layer sliced fruit on top and drizzle with honey.
rice pudding
milk, rice and sugar, cost around 1.50
I'm not sure about the five pounds, but grab some banana pudding and a couple of bananas. Spread the bananas on the bottom of your dish, then pour the pudding on top. If you have extra cash, get cookies or cool whip to go on top. Yum!
home made scones....( dead easy ) with thick whipped fresh cream and strawberry jam. They will love them, and the house will smell great !!!
Make a peach cobbler. Very easy. You probably have most of the ingredients on hand. All you should need to buy is the fruit. If you don't like peaches, you can use a different fruit.
Easy Peach Cobbler Recipe courtesy Dori Sanders
Show: Cooking Live
Episode: Southern Foods: Southern Cooking
1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
3 teaspoons baking powder
Pinch salt
1 cup milk
4 cups peeled, pitted and thinly sliced fresh peaches (5 to 6 medium peaches)
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
Several dashes ground cinnamon or ground nutmeg (optional)
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Pour the melted butter into a 13 by 9 by 2-inch baking dish.
In a medium bowl, combine the flour, 1 cup sugar, the baking powder, and the salt and mix well. Stir in the milk, mixing until just combined. Pour this batter over the butter but do not stir them together.
In a small saucepan, combine the peaches, lemon juice, and remaining cup of sugar and bring to a boil over high heat, stirring constantly. Pour the peaches over the batter but do not stir them together. Sprinkle with cinnamon or nutmeg if desired.
Bake in the preheated oven for 40 to 45 minutes or until the top is golden-brown. Serve warm or cold.
Orange Fluffs
16 ounces Cottage Cheese
1 small jar mandarin oranges (optional)
1 (18 ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
12 ounces Cool Whip
1 (3 ounce) package orange Jell-O
Combine cottage cheese, oranges, pineapple and Cool Whip in a large bowl. Sprinkle with dry Jell-O and mix with spoon until all ingredients are combined. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
right forget the desert jokes,thats been done to death now.
ok.seriously,because i've done it before and everyone wondered how i'd made it.u get these kids yoghurt pouches(a pound for 4 in tesco).put them in the freezer(they dont completely freeze for some reason).they turn into a sort of yoghurt/ice cream concoction which suprisingly is v.nice.(it will just sqeeze into a bowl).garnish it with tinned fruit of ur choice(without the syrup it comes in,cos thats a giveaway)and hey presto desert made by putting stuff in a freezer and opening a tin.
ps;buy three packs cos not a helluva lot in a pouch=￡3
3x tinned fruit =￡1.50
total dessert=￡4.50
HAPPY DESSERT FOR SUNDAY AND DONT FORGET ITS FATHERS DAY SO GIVE UR DESSERT A DADS DAY THEME(I WONT TELL ANYONE U GOT IT FROM ME)!!!!!!!
Banana pudding
buy bananas and 2 boxes of banana pudding ( or a big box ) and cool whip and cookies ( vanilla wafers or something )
In a glass bowl layer cookies, pudding, bananas, cool whip until everything is used - usually you get 3-4 layers out of it.
Top with cool whip and sliced bananas.
I got an angel food cake, whip cream, and strawberries for 6.00
you would then cut the angel food cake, put whip cream and strawberries on it, and you have a strawberry shortcake.
London cheesecake with a dollop of double cream - Nigella Lawson recipe
if you want to make the healthy version which is just as nice just substitute the full fat cheese with low fat and this is cheaper to from (tescos)
75g digestive biscuit belnded to fine crumbs
50g melted butter added to crumbs and mix
spoon out this mixture into a 12" cake pan (a decent size 12 inch deep sandwich tin will do but not the cheap thin pans)
evenly - do grease or line the pan first
in a bowl empty 600g low fat healthy eating soft cheese and crack three eggs and three egg yolks (6 egg yolks and three whites) i.e. dont put all six white in and then add 150 grams soft white caster sugar and then the juice of a lemon. With a spatula mix and blend but do not whisk....
you end up with a creamy mixture which is very tasty
then pour this into your greased biscuit lines cake pan and should leave a couple of mm gap from the top...
put this in the over 180 for about 50 minutes in the centre of the oven and this will cook
It may start to brown on top a little when it is done so put a fork into to test
then about 40 -50 minute cooking take the pan out of the oven and cool and then put the whole thing in the fridge and cool further ...must be served cool...
To garnish make a rasberry coulis from a packet of raspberry heated in a pan with about two tablespoons of icing sugar and then push through a sieve and drizzle or spoon on top when you have served the chhescake on a plate. This is EXTRA
It is easy to slice and serve the cheesecake from the pan and then add the rasberry as a sauce on a plate and then put some double cream
If you want to take the whole cheesecake out you will have to line the tin with greaseproof paper..
COST (SHOP AT TESCO)
cheese 600g - ￡1.19
digestives - 0.49
eggs - 0.86 (barn)
sugar - - 0.60
butter /marg - ￡1.00
cream - 0.89
￡5.03
Total Cost : ￡5.03 -- ￡6.03 with the rapberries for a sauce
bake a cake the ingredients aren't very expensive and they'll last ages so you can make lots and lots of cakes in the future