Recipes for delicious sweet things you know aren’t particularly good for you but you cant resist occasionally
I warn you, this is not a healthy ice cream recipe and it’s dangerous moreish. It would be wonderful served with apple pie or crumble providing you can prevent the children from eating it all straight from the ice cream maker.
This is Creme Anglaise or Custard and is an ideal base to use for making all sorts of ice cream. Serve warm as Creme Anglaise or custard with puddings or chill and add the double cream to make an ice cream base.
These delicious individual crumbles are a different take on a pear and chocolate crumble. The pears are poached whole, lying on a bed of chocolate custard with the crumble topping scattered over them, delicious decadent.
Healthy version of classic pancakes, this time using buckwheat flour and dairy free milk to make dairy free, sugar free fluffy pancakes.
This is lovely served with freshly squeezed orange juice or lemon juice and a drizzle of maple syrup or honey.
What’s the surprise? Two of them a) it has a ‘magic’ chocolate sauce that starts on top and ends up in the bottom when it’s cooked and b) it is the most delicious, unhealthy chocolate pudding recipe but with a healthy twist as it has a fruit and vegetable to give it some plus points.
These take around 20 minutes to set due to use of Geloozoon or Gellan Gum, a molecular gastronomy powder which makes instant setting jelly. If you don’t have any of this in your kitchen (!) then you can use agar agar which sets pretty quickly or gelatine*.
This is an adapted version of my pesche alla Piedmontese recipe, you’ll need ripe peaches, plums or nectarines as you won’t be cooking them. Edible tulip petals are available from Greens of Devon.
The ‘crumble’ is a biscuit base, just a like the ones you make for a cheesecake and the rhubarb requires around 10 minutes cooking. They can be made the day before and assembled just before serving.
I love this and can eat it out of the bowl, but if I restrain myself it is fantastic served with stone fruit and ideal to take on a picnic or to serve as a canape, especially when Green’s of Devon have their edible tulip petals in season.
