Puddings

It is perfectly honourable to buy a tart from a pâtisserie. But I have discovered that I love making puddings provided I can do them in advance. What I hate is having to get up from the dinner table to start fiddling with a pudding just as the evening is getting underway and I’m beginning to relax. Anyway, most of the sweet things I like need to be made a good day or so before they’re eaten.

Any trifle needs a day to sit in the fridge or a cool place, everything melding, setting, the component parts becoming this one glorious whole: here are three such.