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Yoghurt pannacotta with rhubarbs and strawberries

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Yoghurt pannacotta with rhubarbs and strawberries
Dessert
10
 

Ingredients
Yoghurt pannacotta:
  • 500g (1,1 lbs) heavy cream
  • 500g (1,1 lbs) yoghurt
  • 135g (4¾ oz) sugar
  • 2 gelatine sheets
  • 1 vanilla bean
Vanilla poached rhubarb:
  • 5-8 stalks rhubarb
  • 150-200g (5-7oz) sugar
  • 2 vanilla beans
  • 2dl (1 cup) white wine
  • 5-6 dl (2-2½ cups) water

Instructions
Yoghurt panna cotta:
  1. Soak the gelatine sheets in cold water.
  2. Bring the cream, sugar and the split and scraped vanilla bean to the boil.
  3. Stir in the gelatin until dissolved and let it sit for 10 min.
  4. Add the yoghurt and strain through a sieve.
  5. Pour into serving cups and chill.
Vanilla poached rhubarb:
  1. Peel and cut the ends of the rhubarbs. Add the peel and ends in a saucepan and put the stalks in a deep tray.
  2. Bring the peel and the ends to the boil with sugar, wine, water and vanilla beans.
  3. Cook for about 5 minutes and strain the liquid over the stalks.
  4. Bake in the oven at 90°C/195°F for about 10-15 minutes, until soft. Cover and chill in the refriderator.
  5. Strain the infusion liquid and reduce until it turnes into a syrup in consistency.
  6. Chop the rhubarbs into smaller pieces.
  7. Mix the rhubarbs with the syrup and garnish with fresh strawberries and dry frozen strawberries.

Apple cake ”Skåne style” with vanilla ice cream

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Apple cake ”Skåne style” with vanilla ice cream
Dessert
10
 

Ingredients
Apple cake:
  • 8 apples
  • 200g (7 oz) sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 400g (14 oz) spice bread (blended into crumbs)
  • 200g (7 oz) butter
  • salt
Vanilla ice cream:
  • 5 dl (2 cups) milk
  • 5 dl (2 cups) cream
  • 2 vanilla beans, scored lengthways and seeds removed
  • 9 egg yolks
  • 180 g (6½ oz) sugar

Instructions
Apple cake:
  1. Peel and cut the apples into wedges and put on a oven trey or in individual serving dishes.
  2. Quickly fry the crumbs with sugar and butter, add the cinnamon and a pinch of salt.
  3. Cover the apples with the crumbs and bake at 130°C/265°F oven for 20 minutes.
Vanilla ice cream:
  1. Bring the milk, cream and the vanilla beans, both seeds and beans, to the boil.
  2. Whisk egg yolks and sugar together.
  3. Strain the milk and cream mixture on to the eggs and sugar and simmer on medium heat to 85°C/185°F, while constantly stiring!
  4. Chill in ice bath and run in the ice cream machine.

Meringue cake with berries and whipped vanilla cream

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Meringue cake with berries and whipped vanilla cream
Dessert
10
 

Ingredients
Cake:
  • 175°C/350°F oven
  • 75g (2¾ oz) butter
  • 2dl (1 cup) powdered sugar
  • 5 egg (yolks
  • 1½dl (¾ cup) flour
  • 1½ teaspoons baking powder
  • 4 tablespoons milk
Meringue:
  • 5 egg whites
  • 180g (6¼ oz) caster sugar
Vanilla cream:
  • 1 vanilla pod
  • 3dl (1½ cups) whipping cream
Berries:
  • ½dl (¼ cup) red currants
  • ½dl (¼ cup) raspberries
  • ½dl (¼ cup) gooseberries
  • ½dl (¼ cup) black currants
  • ½dl (¼ cup) granulated sugar
  • grated zest of one lemon

Instructions
Meringue cake:
  1. Stir the butter and sugar fluffy. Add the yolks, one at a time.
  2. Mix flour with baking powder. Stir in the flour and milk.
  3. Spread batter in a pan, lined with parchment paper.
  4. Beat the whites to lightweight foam, mix in the sugar a little at the time and whisk for a few minutes to a stable foam.
  5. Spread meringue over the batter a bit uneven in shape.
  6. Bake in the middle or lower part of oven for 20 minutes. Allow cake to cool, remove paper and cut into pieces.
Vanilla cream:
  1. Split and scrape out the vanilla seeds from the vanilla pod and mix with the cream, whisk to foam.
Berries:
  1. Stir sugar with the berries until sugar has melted, turn in lemon zest.
  2. Arrange with vanilla cream and lingonberry berries as shown.