Summer time!!

I love SUMMER!!! There is just so many fruits and they are all to die for!! I love the texture and sensation of berries, stone fruits and citrus to dance on my taste buds before sliding into my happy stomach. Such flavour explosions can become reality through my dishes such as..

...Lime Cheesecake with mixed berry salad, lime tuille and baby thai basil

This is a cold set cheesecake which combines the density of traditional cheescake yet while stilll maintaining a light and airy balance. The sweet and tangy flavours of the berries cut through the creamy taste. But make sure you also break a piece of tuille off to add to the whole crunch, soft and squishy combination in your mouth!

And for you chocolate hazelnut lovers out there, I have created this dish one would describe as 'a smooth Ferrero rocher'! Yum Yum Yum (I wouldn't mind it right now for a midnight snack)!!

Gianduja parfait with Frangelico foam, coffee cake, hazelnut and cocoa bean praline

Gianduja is the chocolate hazelnut paste which is combined with dark callebaut chocolate to create this smooth frozen dessert. After trialing many coffee cake recipes (and feeling sick from caffeine overdose) I found this recipe which is dense and moist to create this thinly sliced coffee crisp. This creates the crunch alongside the crushed hazelnut and cocoa bean praline. Frangelico foam is so powerful that for a non alcoholic like me, one spoonful sets my cheeks crimson. I love the taste, and I bet...you will too!!!

Ciao Ciao Xx