Christmas dinner dessert??

I’d do a nice chocolate mousse in fancy glasses, or maybe a Creme brûlée. I’m trying to think of what topping or fruit would be great to compliment the brûlée. Oranges, blackberries and strawberries are my favorite, but not very Christmassy.

Red velvet pound cake with cream cheese icing. Classic, basic ingredients, easy to make. Do a pourable cream cheese and make it even easier to add icing.

A chocolate rolled cake and decorated like a yule log.

I use fruit roll-ups (red & green) to make a poinsettia flower on a yule log.  Easy and cheap to do.  Use orange/yellow for the flower centers.

Cream puffs can be made ahead.

We are hosting Christmas lunch too. Normally I would do a lemon meringue pie, but they are a lot of work, especially making the pastry. This year I am thinking about making a wreath, and I have narrowed it down to these options:

Lamington Wreath with Berry Cream - I have made this before and it is super easy and looks great. I doubt that you have lamingtons there though, do you?

Easy Choc Ripple Wreath - You probably don't have Choc Ripple biscuits (cookies) there, but I'm sure you could find a different kind of cookie to use for this. The good thing about this one is that you make it a day ahead, so give time for the biscuits/cookies to soften to a cake-like texture. And you can decorate however you want.

Berry Pavlova Wreath - I have made this one before, and added a few green things to it to make it look more Christmassy. It's a bit more fiddly, but you can make the pavlova the day before, and dress it on the day. 

I change my vote to this. Sounds delicious, would look adorable. And you can make the ice cream scoops ahead of time and flash freeze them, then cover with cling wrap and foil. 

I typically make a chocolate eclair cake. My mom would make what we call Company Cake. It’s a yellow cake mix with manderine oranges. It’s a 3 layer cake. The frosting is cool whip, French vanilla pudding mix and crushed pineapples. For Christmas, she’d add red and green cherries on top.

I was thinking individual pavlovas with berries but a wreath would be super cute.

I love to make a peppermint ice cream dessert - Oreo crust in 9x13 pan, peppermint ice cream spread on top of Oreos, thin layer of chocolate syrup, freeze for a few hours, then top with Cool Whip and sprinkle crushed Oreos and/or crushed candy canes on top.

I think a sprig of red currants with some thinly sliced orange would be lovely! Crème brûlée is one of my favourite desserts.

Key Lime Pie with homemade graham cracker crust, with whipped cream available for those who like it. If I have time I make them in small individual size. Always a hit!

I’m planning to make this: www.instagram.com/reel/CzJ8p1cLroN/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

I like cheesecake for Christmas dessert.

I love the brownies with peppermint ice cream idea!

My other thought is to make my new favorite thing - this Crustless Cranberry Pie. A friend brought it to our house to share a month ago, and since that time, I've made it twice (one for us, one to share for Thanksgiving), and DS has made it twice (one to take to his friends Thanksgiving and one for his cousins) Everyone has loved it, including DH, who usually doesn't eat desserts or cranberries - so that's saying something. (We make it without the nuts because I would be the only one eating it if it had nuts, but YMMV.) Also, it's a simple one-bowl recipe!

I usually make a Christmas pudding, served with custard and/or ice cream. But we don't have it for dessert after our Christmas dinner. We do the full on roast bird (duck, goose or turkey, depending on numbers and availability) with all the trimmings for lunch, then we rest for the afternoon and the pudding is our dinner/dessert around 7pm.

Last year, we were all at my sister's house, about 20 of us in total. We had a Christmas pudding, mini pavlova cases with whipped cream and various fruits and other topping for DIY pavlovas, and my DDiL made a wreath dessert, similar to those AussieMeg posted. And yes, we had FAR TOO MUCH food!