We were preparing a dessert trolley that day. A dessert trolley is where a few selection of desserts are placed on a trolley and customers get to choose what they like. We had 5 items to plate up and I wondered if I will be the last to finish because I was working alone.
I started with the vanilla panna cotta. Panna cotta is basically cooked cream with gelatine and chilled in the fridge for hours before serving. It needed time to chill so it had to be made first. I brought my small silicon muffin moulds for the panna cotta. I wanted it to set faster so a small mould would be good. I sprayed the mould with oil and poured in the cream and chilled it.
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| Vanilla Panna Cotta |
Some of the components were made in advance, like the meringue cases and the frangipane tartlets. With the meringue, I filled it with chantilly cream and fresh fruits. I did 2 designs for this dessert. I prefer the one on the rectangular plate. I think it looks neater and I like it being simple. I gave the plate a little colour with the raspberry couli. Raspberry couli is made of raspberries, sugar and a little glucose. It is boiled and blended in the food processor and sieved to get a nice red sauce.
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| Meringue with fruits |
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| Meringue with fruits |
I drizzled chocolate over the frangipane tartlets and plated 2 on the plate with a little crushed almonds and had 2 simple lines of chocolate on the plate.
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| Frangipane tartlets |
I also made a fresh fruit salad in a martini glass and served with chantilly cream and raspberry couli. Seems like we didn't do much except panna cotta and cutting some fruits, well there was on more thing that we had to do. We had to bake a fruit cake for Week 39. Next week we decorate the fruit cake.
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| Fruit Salad with chantilly cream and raspberry couli |
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| Products of the day |
I like the panna cotta plating up the most. It looks simple and sweet, maybe because it was on a square plate. I think I just love square plates and everything looks nicer on it. HaHa...
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