With Valentine’s Day on a Tuesday this year it was agreed to
celebrate at the weekend. Therefore,
with my fiancee working yesterday, it was the perfect chance for me to get
creating with a dessert. A dessert
completely made up.
The base is a scone pastry (without baking powder which I
inextricably forgot) but rolled very thin before being baked in the oven. I broke this up into pieces before arranging
it in the bowls so that it still resembled a ‘cup’ shape.
After washing some blueberries, I cooked them with a little
sugar in order to make a fruit sauce.
This I poured over the pastry and chilled it for a while in order to get
the pastry to stick together.
I then melted some dark chocolate, which I mixed with
mascarpone cheese and creme fraiche, to create a kind of mousse. When the fruit had chilled I spread the
chocolate mixture over the top, which I then chilled for several hours
.
Finally, when we were ready to eat it, I whipped some cream
and it was finished. Ta da!
In hindsight the pastry wasn’t quite the right thing really,
although it might have been tastier if I had remembered the baking powder. A biscuitcrumb base, a la a traditional
cheesecake would have been much better, and I may attempt this in the
future. The chocolate mousse was
delicious however.
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