What’s your favourite traditional British dessert?

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1. Summer pudding.

   Usually use an old recipe from my gran’s cookbook.

2. [Spotted Dick](https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/international/european/british/spotted-dick-rides-again) by Delia.

3. Steamed puddings – treacle, spotted dick, jam roly-poly and the like. We have some M&S cookbooks from the 1970s and they are my go-to recipes.

4. Blackberry and apple crumble is the main one I make myself.

   Other contenders: summer pudding, Christmas pudding, rhubarb crumble, plum pie, apple dumplings, chocolate steamed pudding, cheese board…

5. Sticky toffee pudding, no question. 10/10 dessert!

6. Rhubarb crumble and custard.

7. Mint viennetta or butter scotch angel delight

8. Jam roly poly and custard or apple and rhubarb crumble and custard. Basically, stodge and custard.

9. berger

10. Gooseberry crumble

11. A good fruit crumble, especially apple with custard, rice pudding made with evaporated milk or a trifle

12. Bread and butter pudding with double cream from Delia Smith’s first recipe book

13. Bread and butter pudding, absolutely no raisins but I will accept chocolate chips. As stodgy as possible.

14. Lemon posset or bakewell tart but maids of honour are also up there.

15. Rice Pudding with Jam.

    Jam Roly Poly.

16. Apple crumble has already been comprehensively mentioned so I’ll go with Queen of Puddings.

17. Eton mess in summer, sticky Toffee pud in winter.

18. Rhubarb crumble – I like to add some lemon zest to the crumble part

19. Butterscotch tart.

20. Bakewell tart with vanilla ice cream. It needs a really thick layer of jam though.

21. Love a crumble with ice-cream

22. Apple crumble. Hot with cream.

    Get the fuck in my belly

23. Apple pie and custard, or a nice Manchester tart…

24. Where’s the love for a good old lemon meringue pie? The fluffy sweetness of the meringue and the properly tart lemon that puts your teeth on edge.

25. The bestest of the bestest in sticky toffee pudding is the bbc good food magazine ultimate sticky toffee pudding with one change to the original recipe. Instead of the dates I put in figs. I take the wee hard stem off and then blizz them in the food processor with about 1/2 the water in the recipe but cold not hot because your not leaving them to soak and if they are warm the batter starts to cook and swell.
    At this stage of the game I don’t bother with individual ramekins I do 4 times the recipe in a big baking tray. So plenty to share. You won’t need 4 times the sauce if you do this.

26. Bread and butter pudding

27. Trifle. I bloody love a trifle.

28. Plum crumble.

29. Pie and mash with liquor.

30. I couldn’t choose between steamed oudding and syrup, jam roly poly, apple crumble, carrot cake, trifle, scones, and more

31. Banoffee pie. Yes it’s British

32. Butterscotch Angel Delight