I keep reading this question and the phrase "Spotted Girldick" is not my answer but it WON'T leave my head so I have to share it.
My actual answer isn't even an actual British dessert because have you seen the sorry state of British cuisine? A bunch of holdovers from both world wars and times when we were an island nation with limited resources, as opposed to one of the world's largest empires and generally one of the most historically awful world powers.
Anyway yeah my dessert of choice is a vanilla cheesecake. Plain and boring? Maybe, but there's something nice about simplicity.
