Lifestyle
Dessert in a dash
Despite good intentions, it’s sometimes easier to pick up a pudding for your dinner party and give it a little attention to make it your own.
- Invest in pre-made confectionery such as biscuits, nougat and chocolate truffles that you can pile onto a board and serve with dessert wines and coffee.
- Make an affogato: put a small spoonful of vanilla, chocolate, or hazelnut ice cream into a glass and add a spoonful of coffee liqueur. Pour espresso coffee over the ice cream and serve with a spoon.
- For a dessert that isn’t too sweet, serve quince jelly with a bowl of ricotta cheese and thin crackers.
- Drizzle chocolate brownies with orange-flavoured liqueur and top with a scoop of vanilla or chocolate ice cream.
- Sprinkle finely sliced oranges with ground cinnamon and serve with honey-laced mascarpone or double cream yoghurt and brandy snap biscuits.
- Serve a glass of sweet dessert wine or liqueur with a small bowl of mascarpone and biscotti; dip the biscuits in the sweet wine and then spoon over a little mascarpone.
- Put vanilla ice cream in glasses with melted chocolate sauce and topped with crumbled mint or salted caramel chocolate.
- For a match made in heaven, serve strawberries in a bowl with whipped cream and top with crumbled meringue. Add chocolate shavings if you like.
- Place lemon curd ice cream between two ginger biscuits and freeze for a few hours; drizzle with ready-made berry coulis and garnish with fresh mint.
- Offer a selection of pears and grapes with Brie, seeded crackers and a good dessert wine, then sit back and enjoy.
* Source: Ideas adapted from recipes by Michele Cranston and @thetickledgiraffe
