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Showing posts with label Panna Cotta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Panna Cotta. Show all posts

Sunday, February 28, 2010

My weekend in the kitchen


Well, last week when I posted about the Vanilla Beans I said I'd try the recipe for Vanilla Panna Cotta on the packet. I gave it a go and it was a lot easier than I thought it would be and they turned out better than I had expected, so I thought I'd share the recipe with you:

3 teaspoons gelatine
100ml hot water
600ml thickened cream
4 tablespoons caster sugar
2 vanilla beans (split and scraped)
1 punnet raspberries
1 lime (finely grated)

1. Dissolve the gelatine in hot water. Stir briskly with a fork.

2. Boil together the cream, sugar and scrapped vanilla bean seeds. Allow to simmer for 1 minute. Pour in dissolved gelatine.
  vanillabeanpot-1
3. Pour into four 125ml moulds and allow to set in the refrigerator. Serve with fresh raspberries and grated lime rind. (Serves 4)

When I removed mine from the moulds this afternoon I noticed that there was a little separation of the gelatine on the top and that most of the vanilla seeds had settled there as well so I will have to have another go to perfect this one :)
 
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I also attempted the Red Velvet cake Bakerella posted the other day. I have wanted to try this cake for SO long and it is as good as I wanted it to be! I was a tad shocked as I was mixing it up because the mixture was very, very, very red!

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Here is the finished product – be warned there is A LOT of icing……

icedredvelvetcake  
YUM!!!!
 icedandcutcake
Until next time :-)