Thursday, May 19, 2011

sugar and spice

I made this dessert with flavours that are easy to find in your pantry because i didn't have any other ingredients, I also didn't use anything else most people don't have on hand ( unless you don't have gelatin). So almost anybody can make this dessert or at least parts of it. It is cinnamon caramel, cocoa meringue, steamed vanilla cake, coffee clove jelly, vanilla nutmeg ice cream, and cinnamon tea.

The cinnamon caramel was made by caramelizing white sugar in a pan with cinnamon then adding in cream and butter and allowing it to cool.
The cocoa meringue was made by whipping one egg white with 30 grams of sugar then adding approx. 1/4 cup of cocoa and spreading it thin on a silpat. Then it was baked at 100 for 10 minutes 200 for 10 minutes and 300 for 10 minutes.
I have lost my recipe for the steamed cake but just use any asian steamed cake recipe you want and flavour it with plenty of vanilla seeds or extract.
For the jelly 1/4 cup of hot coffee was steeped with 1 to 2 table spoons of whole cloves for approximately 15 minutes. Then sugar was added to taste and the liquid was measured again to 1/4 cup. Then 1 teaspoon of coffee was mixed in a bowl with 1/4 of a teaspoon of gelatin. then the remainder of the coffee was put in a saucepan and brought to a boil then stirred it into the gelatin and brought back to a boil to dissolve the gelatin. the mixture was then poured into moulds and set in the fridge.
The ice cream was made with a custard flavoured with plenty of nutmeg and vanilla (you can use whatever recipe you want for this and add the nutmeg to taste).
The cinnamon tea was made by steeping a large stick of cinnamon that had been broken into a few peices in some recently boiled water for about an hour then simple syrup was added to taste.
I hope people try this recipe and enjoy it!

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  3. Hi Rachel,
    Can you make any suggestions for people who cannot eat regular gelatin? I am a vegetarian and gelatin is derived from animal sources. Thoughts?

    Great blog! I am so impressed by your creations.

    Michael

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