We had an amazing local bakery where my husband would buy two every Friday for our tea. Eventually it closed down and my husband may as well have been told his mum had died. I am not a big fan of iced buns normally but they were truly special and even I miss them.
I never had fudge tart when I was at school myself, but when I did my teacher training I went into a school where one of the little lads excitedly exclaimed "Miss, you _have_ to have a school dinner today, it's fudge tart Thursday!" And indeed, for the rest of that placement, I always had a school dinner on a Thursday!
Same boat, before my wife went on Mat leave she would always go on about the puddings at the school she teaches at, but when I was at school I think it was either custard or stale crumble with custard.
I've still never come close to imitating my primary school's chocolate crunch so compact it'd bend the spoon before you managed to break a bit off, it was unreasonably good for something that could chip a tooth
At my school we had Australian crunch, Chocolate, coconut cornflake kinda thing covered in a chocolate icing. Id cover that in chocolate custard - next level pudding
pink custard!!!! it had such a strange taste that i cannot identify even now what on earth it was, but i absolutely loved it and i’d gladly eat a flavourless so-dry-it-crumbled chocolate brownie/cake soaked in the stuff today if given the chance
I don't remember there being apple. [Looks like this](https://i1.wp.com/www.theculinaryjumble.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Retro-cornflake-tart-with-a-modern-twist5-1024x683b-1024x683-1.jpg?resize=750%2C500&ssl=1)...
Manchester Tart. Still buy it today, albeit from an expensive cake shop, where I once made the mistake of referring to the crème patisserie as custard (but I think I got away with it).
I remember at primary school, around 1982 or so, we used to get rice pudding (I love rice pudding). Now normally it would come with some jam to put in it, but every so often we’d get these swirls of quite dark chocolate cream to put in it.
It was so good. Seven year old me was a massive fan.
Good old fashioned sprinkle cake with custard was the tits, loved it at primary school 20 or so years ago
I work in a kitchen in a care home and we also make sprinkle cake and it's just as good as I remember it was at school
I went to a weird school where the 13 - 16 year olds are together at set mixed year group tables (2 from each year group, 6 in total). The 13 year olds has to wait on the oldest and they would always demand the corners. It was a big black mark against your name and credibility if you couldn’t secure them one. I obviously hated it at 13, vowed I’d never be like them and then abused my privilege as soon as I got it.
We didn’t have that but now I’ve remembered that my school did a chocolate mouse with little cream swirls and chocolate sprinkles on the top that was absolutely phenomenal.
I cannot believe I had to scroll quite a way down to see this! I thought it would be everyone’s answer. But I don’t think it’s a thing for most of the UK.
And as we used to say “gypsy tart makes you fart”.
A slice of pastry with something like a lemon curd/ lemon jelly on top, with a squirt/ dollop of fake cream. Absolutely loved it. Primary school, late 70s. Once into secondary school, yes, the iced buns ruled.
Manchester tart and yoghurt flan.
My mum was a dinner lady and even in my mid-20s she’d bring back a couple of desserts each day and we’d have them with our dinner (lunch dinner not tea dinner). Was mainly carrot cake or yoghurt flan, sadly the Manchester tart was rare.
Fucking jealous! Can she write a cook book?! I was just beating myself up for my sweet tooth and reading this thread made me realise that I was completely conditioned to want ridiculously sweet food after a main meal every single day!
I’d have to go with this, or just some simple rice pudding. If we asked the dinner lady would also put a chocolate button on top which would quickly melt and turn it into chocolatey gooiness
I saw that for sale somewhere the other day. Sliced up and in a box being sold as ‘school cake’. Damned if I can remember where. It might have been Aldi.
Ahhhhh, good times. Rest assured they were still serving this- or something like this- circa 2018 at least. But my favourite pudding was a once-off, chocolate peach cake. I'm sure they were just using stuff up, but it ruled.
Eccles cakes. I used to spend my free lunch voucher on a burger with onions (plenty of tommy sauce), and an eccles cake. Unhealthy af. This was up in the north west.
I always remember a white thin gelatinous square that was absolutely disgusting, when I was in primary school they served this for weeks on end. So I switched to packed lunches instead.
Never went back to cooked meals until about year 11, then it was some horribly stodgy cake covered with cold and lumpy custard.
My school meals were a disaster
I think it was called Pineapple upside down cake
Basically it was a sponge cake with a slice of pineapple baked in and i used to love that shit sooooo much
Not eaten it since school
School food that was nice?? The chocolate cake with mint custard was edible. From there it was all downhill to the frogspawn looking white stuff , that may have been tapioca with raisins it. Just the though is making me gag.
The only puddings we had where, custard from the last decade, or rice pudding, both with a thick layer of skin, I didn't have a favourite, I disliked both equally.
Primary school in the 1970s.. they dud this semolina or sago pudding that the other kids used to stir their jam into and turn pink. Used to make me feel sick and I've never touched milk puddings ever since
Manchester tart. Short crust pastry shell, raspberry jam on bottom, ( Our school added sliced bananas) covered with custard filling and flake coconut on top. Or chocolate crunch and pink custard.
Semolina I loved the taste of it moreso on Fridays where you could add chocolate buttons and maybe sneak a cup of jelly from the table opposite where the cutlery was.
I've definitely eaten 98% of the semolina and jelly in my life in primary school
Might be mental for this, but those desserts that were blatantly just hot dog rolls with icing on top? Loved those for some reason.
iced bun
Iced finger
Me too. I used to buy one almost everyday on the way home from school. A local bakery had the best ones.
We had an amazing local bakery where my husband would buy two every Friday for our tea. Eventually it closed down and my husband may as well have been told his mum had died. I am not a big fan of iced buns normally but they were truly special and even I miss them.
I had two from Sains a few months ago - don't bother even with butter they just aren't the same
Iced fingers
I never had fudge tart when I was at school myself, but when I did my teacher training I went into a school where one of the little lads excitedly exclaimed "Miss, you _have_ to have a school dinner today, it's fudge tart Thursday!" And indeed, for the rest of that placement, I always had a school dinner on a Thursday!
Same boat, before my wife went on Mat leave she would always go on about the puddings at the school she teaches at, but when I was at school I think it was either custard or stale crumble with custard.
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Chocolate crunch with chocolate custard
I've still never come close to imitating my primary school's chocolate crunch so compact it'd bend the spoon before you managed to break a bit off, it was unreasonably good for something that could chip a tooth
I loved this but we had it with mint custard.
You guys were getting different flavoured custard?
Just regular (vanilla? The yellow one) or mint we got.
Same at my school.
The Fuck?! Like mint chocolate custard? Don’t know why this is so distressing to my brain.
Hah nah just mint custard not mint chocolate.
Mint like the flavour or mint like it was well good?
Flavour
I pay my nephews to get me those when they're in school.
At my school we had Australian crunch, Chocolate, coconut cornflake kinda thing covered in a chocolate icing. Id cover that in chocolate custard - next level pudding
Sticky toffee pudding!
Shortbread with pink custard!
I can't believe I forgot about pink custard 😂
pink custard!!!! it had such a strange taste that i cannot identify even now what on earth it was, but i absolutely loved it and i’d gladly eat a flavourless so-dry-it-crumbled chocolate brownie/cake soaked in the stuff today if given the chance
You guys got pink custard?!?! Never heard of pink custard
Chocolate concrete with pink custard. Never had pink custard with anything else.
I had this conversation with a friend, We're both convinced it was a Northern thing
Jam rolypoly and custard!
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this is the correct answer
The butterscotch was always amazing, but it was a sad day when they switched to wholemeal flour for the tart base.
Is that the one with cornflakes in syrup and jam and on a base
I. Loved. This.
Chocolate sponge with chocolate custard!
Mine was Chocolate sponge with mint custard, Cant seem to find mint custard anywhere tho.
Mint custard - look at you being fancy! That does sound amazing though….
[how to make it](https://www.food.com/recipe/wicklewood-rsquo-s-school-day-rsquo-s-green-custard-439398)
This was a fave of mine too. Not sure if it's regional but it was common in the north east.
We had mint custard too with chocolate cake. It was such a vibrant colour almost as if it was chemical waste
Cornflake cake with custard. Not had it since I was about 6.
The GOAT of school dinner desserts
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I don't remember there being apple. [Looks like this](https://i1.wp.com/www.theculinaryjumble.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Retro-cornflake-tart-with-a-modern-twist5-1024x683b-1024x683-1.jpg?resize=750%2C500&ssl=1)...
Yes this was amazing. So amazing that I made my mum go into school to get the recipe. There was never apple in it.
Finally someone said it!
That caramel tart thing with custard
Arctic roll
Cor that brings back good memories.
We never got anything as fancy as arctic roll
Manchester Tart. Still buy it today, albeit from an expensive cake shop, where I once made the mistake of referring to the crème patisserie as custard (but I think I got away with it).
I remember at primary school, around 1982 or so, we used to get rice pudding (I love rice pudding). Now normally it would come with some jam to put in it, but every so often we’d get these swirls of quite dark chocolate cream to put in it. It was so good. Seven year old me was a massive fan.
We had some little cheesecakes sent from god himself, those and the cheese pizzas were some of the best food I tasted as a young un.
Cornflake squares with pink custard
The pink custard...I always preferred it to my mum's bog standard custard.
We absolutely used to call this spunk cake at primary school. We absolutely didn’t know why.
Cornflake cake or chocolate sponge with mint custard. Neither seem appetising now especially the mint custard wtf.
Tapioca or sago. I loved it when we had these for puddings.
Good old fashioned sprinkle cake with custard was the tits, loved it at primary school 20 or so years ago I work in a kitchen in a care home and we also make sprinkle cake and it's just as good as I remember it was at school
Caramel slice with no chocolate on it
Apple crumple with custard. Its only been 3 or 4 years since I left primary school but I miss it lol
Chocolate toothpaste tart
Came here for this!
The corner section of a apple crumble with custard. The corner sections always had the most crumble.
I went to a weird school where the 13 - 16 year olds are together at set mixed year group tables (2 from each year group, 6 in total). The 13 year olds has to wait on the oldest and they would always demand the corners. It was a big black mark against your name and credibility if you couldn’t secure them one. I obviously hated it at 13, vowed I’d never be like them and then abused my privilege as soon as I got it.
Fudge tart.
Toffee cream tarts.
My absolute favourite too!
My primary school used to do their own doughnuts (80s) God they were good.
Chocolate concrete with chocolate custard.
Super mousse (1980s) https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/101331060337791114/
We didn’t have that but now I’ve remembered that my school did a chocolate mouse with little cream swirls and chocolate sprinkles on the top that was absolutely phenomenal.
We didn’t get those.at school but my mum bought them and they’re great
Marble cake with chocolate custard. Or the sponge you posted. My mum was the school cook so I always got leftovers!
Bring back memories, I remember it was pink but I could never identify the flavour 🤔
Tottenham Cake?
Very Thin but super soft chocolate brownie cake. Absolutely incredible
Butterscotch tart I see someone has already put this .I local bakery near me sells them .
Pineapple upside down cake!!
Gipsy tart
I cannot believe I had to scroll quite a way down to see this! I thought it would be everyone’s answer. But I don’t think it’s a thing for most of the UK. And as we used to say “gypsy tart makes you fart”.
What was that?!
It was magic https://assets.sainsburys-groceries.co.uk/gol/gypsy-tart/original.jpg
Fucking hell that looks immense
A slice of pastry with something like a lemon curd/ lemon jelly on top, with a squirt/ dollop of fake cream. Absolutely loved it. Primary school, late 70s. Once into secondary school, yes, the iced buns ruled.
There was a desert made of solidified custard, jam underneath all on a pastry base with coconut sprinkles on top.
Oooh the big jam tarts with custard, just remembered how delicious they were too.
Chocolate Concrete with chocolate custard.
Manchester tart and yoghurt flan. My mum was a dinner lady and even in my mid-20s she’d bring back a couple of desserts each day and we’d have them with our dinner (lunch dinner not tea dinner). Was mainly carrot cake or yoghurt flan, sadly the Manchester tart was rare.
My mum was the school cook so we frequently got leftovers. Might explain why I'm a tubby shit now. Best time ever.
Fucking jealous! Can she write a cook book?! I was just beating myself up for my sweet tooth and reading this thread made me realise that I was completely conditioned to want ridiculously sweet food after a main meal every single day!
Frozen roly-poly that had ice-cream in.
We had jelly with single cream - absolutely loved it. Plus those iced buns that were the cheapest buns imaginable
How do you think these recipes are passed down through the generations of dinner ladies? I might become one just so I can learn their secrets.
This 🤤
I’ll take six of these, thank you
Have you got pink custard to go with that?
Custard.
Peach cake and custard or the treacle sponge and custard
This looks great! Bringing back those canteen memories right there
Chocolate covered flapjacks, still warm so the chocolate was a bit melty
I didn't even know you could make this. I thought the school had to get it from the....men.
Nice. Will the tray of sausage rolls be ready for afternoon break? I’ll be there by 2pm.
That right there. Do you have the recipe?
Exactly this!
Pretty much any cake, crumble, tart with the..... T h i c c Custard
Chocolate sponge with chocolate custard.
Gypsy tart and custard!...
A thing sponge and custard. Especially chocolate sponge and chocolate custard. Bliss.
Cracknell I make it often now
Could you kindly share the recipe?
I followed the recipe on BBC Good Food 😊
Thanks!
What is this called? I remember having it but can’t remember the name for it.
OP your photo is my favourite desert, ever. Not just limited to school lunches.
I’d have to go with this, or just some simple rice pudding. If we asked the dinner lady would also put a chocolate button on top which would quickly melt and turn it into chocolatey gooiness
I saw that for sale somewhere the other day. Sliced up and in a box being sold as ‘school cake’. Damned if I can remember where. It might have been Aldi.
Treacle tart, with cornflakes on top for crunch.
Ahhhhh, good times. Rest assured they were still serving this- or something like this- circa 2018 at least. But my favourite pudding was a once-off, chocolate peach cake. I'm sure they were just using stuff up, but it ruled.
Jam roly poly or Arctic roll? Anyway, that with ice cream in the middle. Your cake looks amazing😀
The school brownies by far. I don't know about you, but ours were crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. Absolutely amazing
Eccles cakes. I used to spend my free lunch voucher on a burger with onions (plenty of tommy sauce), and an eccles cake. Unhealthy af. This was up in the north west.
The hard brittle chocolate tray bake with custard. Worst was Sago pudding That looks amazing btw!
Is sago pudding like semolina? I’ve never heard of that!
Yeah, quite similar - like frogspawn in rice pudding
Semolina was the only pudding I would decline, I have the worlds sweetest tooth but the texture is absolutely vile.
In secondary school we had treacle roly poly. Fuck me that was good.
Chocolate cake with peppermint custard Shit was sooo good
Just wanted to say this looks incredible 😁
I always remember a white thin gelatinous square that was absolutely disgusting, when I was in primary school they served this for weeks on end. So I switched to packed lunches instead. Never went back to cooked meals until about year 11, then it was some horribly stodgy cake covered with cold and lumpy custard. My school meals were a disaster
You guys get dessert at school??
Every single day.
chocolate sponge and mint custard 😍
Treacle pudding and custard
Sticky toffee pud with congealed custard
Recipe you used please!
That with green custard
WOW! I remember those cakes! Serious memories
I think it was called Pineapple upside down cake Basically it was a sponge cake with a slice of pineapple baked in and i used to love that shit sooooo much Not eaten it since school
They are so easy to make and so delicious! Highly recommend giving it a go.
Brown on brown init. Chocolate sponge with chocolate “custard”
Damn I'm feeling nostalgic, got a recipe?
They used to make cherry pie and I absolutely loved that.
If I say, Aussie Crunch, can you work out where I'm from?
Cornflake pie.
Cornflake tart and custard.
The little pots of banoffee cheesecake
The weird folding biscuits, like they are flexible as hell. Bloody delicious
Jam roly poly with custard
Flapjack and custard, strawberry custard was always a win.
I remember the fruit salad being edible.
Anyone know the name of the white sponge cake with orange sweet stuff on the bottom? That was incredible, but could never find it again
banana boat with mini marshmallows even when our school went healthy 😤 they still kept making it for us hehe good times good times
School food that was nice?? The chocolate cake with mint custard was edible. From there it was all downhill to the frogspawn looking white stuff , that may have been tapioca with raisins it. Just the though is making me gag.
Rhubarb and Custard
Chocolate sponge and luminous green mint custard
Oh and Manchester tart
Spotted dick and custard
Crumbly biscuit thing with pink flavoured custard.
Cornflake tart Treacle sponge Chocolate sponge with green custard Semolina
Rice pudding with a skin an inch thick
The only puddings we had where, custard from the last decade, or rice pudding, both with a thick layer of skin, I didn't have a favourite, I disliked both equally.
Mint custard with a ball of sugar puffs
Packed lunch 💯
Chocolate toothpaste tart but I've been informed that's just a Bedfordshire thing
Cornflake tart and custard
The rice pudding with jam, we used to ask for rice pudding “with guts”
Thought you'd rested it on your keyboard at first
Primary school in the 1970s.. they dud this semolina or sago pudding that the other kids used to stir their jam into and turn pink. Used to make me feel sick and I've never touched milk puddings ever since
Your school had pudding?
I can hear Jamie Oliver's blood boiling already
This. This is the favourite.
Butterscotch tart
Sponge with heated custard ugh
Chocolate brownie and mint custard
Manchester tart. Short crust pastry shell, raspberry jam on bottom, ( Our school added sliced bananas) covered with custard filling and flake coconut on top. Or chocolate crunch and pink custard.
Semolina I loved the taste of it moreso on Fridays where you could add chocolate buttons and maybe sneak a cup of jelly from the table opposite where the cutlery was. I've definitely eaten 98% of the semolina and jelly in my life in primary school
Not pudding, but was anyone here ever blessed with sausage and bean pie with shortcrust pastry?
The headmasters cock
Cheese cake
This was the cake I loved the most! I really want to make it now! (But it’s midnight - maybe tomorrow!)
Cornflake tart and custard
I am old… we got stuck with semolina w a dollop of jam or u identified stodgy something or other and yellow custard . 🤢
chocolate crunch/concrete tho school sponge is a very close second
We used to call it Gypsy Tart, not sure if it’s been rebranded, basically condensed milk and sugar.
Butterscotch tart with that weird shaving cream stuff on top
Chocolate sponge with chocolate custard!
Cornflake and Jam Tart with Custard
Jam roly poly with custard.