Inspired by a recent Valrhona workshop with Valrhona Pacific and Sabato, I set off to create a mousse dessert with all my favourites. Here I used Valrhona Manjari, a single origin dark chocolate made from rare cocoa beans from Madagascar. This has a fresh, acidic, sharp bouquet with red fruit notes and pairs perfectly with…
Category: Recipes – Sweet Treats
Ombre Raspberry Cheesecake
Who remembers the raspberry cheesecake from the freezer section? I used to have that as a treat when I was little. I have always wanted to make my own version of it, refining the flavours and texture. Here I decided to make an ombre raspberry colour – the graduating pink colour turned out quite well…
Milk Chocolate Tart with Ombre Chocolate Swiss Meringue Buttercream
Chocolate tart is a much loved dessert in our home. It is a taste sensation, with a smooth velvety ganache, melting in your mouth against a backdrop of crunchy tart biscuit. It can be sweet and bright (milk chocolate) or dark and salted (Salted dark chocolate). Use your favourite chocolate and this will be a…
Chocolate brownie crinkle cookies with powdered sugar and olive oil
These remind me of the view from 35,000 feet high, flying from Auckland to Christchurch for work. It was in the middle of winter and the Southern Alps was thickly covered by a blanket of snow – it was such a serene and beautiful scene. J requested these cookies after sampling a version of them…
Brown Sugar Iced Milk with Boba Pearls
My favourite boba/bubble drink used to be Taro milk tea. In my uni days there weren’t many Taiwanese tea houses in Auckland and I considered these a treat, rather than for a weekly consumption. I remember purchasing big bags of the drink mix to make bubble teas for friends at a gathering. It was manic…
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