Christmas Desserts

This year, Christmas dinner was spent at our house. So all our relatives gathered there for a festive feast. My mum trusted me with desserts (as she always does), so I made a tropical trifle and christmas pudding.

The trifle was made by layering sponge rolls, passionfruit jelly, custard, mangoes, peaches, then cream and chocolate shavings on top.

It was really delicious, I especially liked the creamy custard with sponge rolls and fruit.

The christmas pudding was made quite similar to the christmas cake I made previously last year. Only thing different was that it had to be steamed in a pudding basin, for five hours!

We also lit it up while pouring brandy over it, and it looked spectacular! The blue flames licking and engulfing the pudding was a sight to see. I took a video of it, but not a picture. =(

Pour some custard over it and slice it to serve. Compared to Christmas cake, the pudding is much denser, richer and chock full of fruit. I would prefer pudding to cake any day.

Christmas @ Melbourne

Melbourne city was all decked out for Christmas! My friend and I went to the city for some Christmas shopping and to admire the xmas decos.

In Royal Arcade...

And LOTS of pine trees scattered about Federation square. Quite random, but pity they are all bare and plain. Should be decorated with pretty baubles and sparkly tinsel...

Gingerbread village created by Epicure. It was quite a big village too, and lots of effort went into making it.

The whole place smelled really comforting, full of gingerbread which makes you feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside.

Lastly, I had the Passionfruit Waffle Sundae at Max Brenners. What's an outing without some sweets? Sinfully delicious, MB's waffles are to die for.

It even comes with a pot of melted chocolate on the side! As well as praline nuts. So SO good.

Eat out: High Tea @ Citylife Manningham

My church hosted a Christmas high tea the other day. I was really excited about it, because there are going to be all sorts of epic desserts there. Let the pictures tell you all about it...

The trifle was nice, the acidity of the fresh berries cut through the sweetness of the custard.

Lemon cheesecake was good too, though it was really different eating a cheesecake from a glass.

This was one of my favourites, love the berry jelly.

Another one of my favourites. Fresh mango and panna cotta so yummy!

This one is delicious too. Love the crackling of the burnt sugar on top.

They also had a cupcake decorating table for children. I wanted to do it but I was too old for it... T^T

The centrepiece on the tables were beautiful, really appreciated how much effort went into setting up this event.

These are some of my gatherings, hehehe. They also had savouries, but I mostly aimed for the deserts.

Was so full after that, my family and I skipped dinner. A sweet and sugary evening, perfect way to end the day.