Easter Emergencies - The Upside to the Hodgepodge!

To begin, you've included all the elements of a good dessert :

sweetness – the meringues

texture – the hazelnuts

sharpness – the raspberries and the juices

sticky toffee sauce and ice cream – pure indulgence

what is a dessert without indulgence!

Better still the Hodgepodge is instant – ish. You can put in as much or as little effort as your time permits – to explain.

You can buy drums of meringue kisses or make your own*.

You can buy ice cream or make your own*.

You can buy whole hazelnuts and chop and roast or buy roasted, chopped hazelnuts in 100g bags ready to use.

Frozen raspberries are another “Perfect Product” for our list.

You can buy jars of caramel sauce – dulce de leche or salted caramel or you can make your own sticky toffee sauce*.

If you want to make any marked * above, i.e. your own meringue kisses, vanilla ice cream and sticky toffee sauce the recipes for all three are on the blog.

It's whatever suits you best - a very large tick whichever way you look at it!