Plated Desserts:Week Two

                   
                     
                          Citrus
                   Soup

 The citrus soup was mad with made with orange and grapefruit supremes and the juice from the oranges and grapefruit. It was served with honey ice cream and a grapefruit tuile.

                   
           Almond 
                Flan






It may be called a flan, but it was really an almond flavored panna cotta. It was served with berry water and fresh fruits, and a Florentine tuile.

   
       
         Pear
           Financier








The warm financier was served with hazelnut ice cream and a pear chip.It would go very well with a vanilla bean,  french vanilla, or spiced ice cream.

                                                                             
                                                                         

                    Cappuccino
              Creme Brulee



This was one of my favorite desserts! I love creme brulee and coffee, so I heard I was we were making this I was so excited!! We added a spoon full of chocolate cream, topped with cream chantilly and a hazelnut/pecan biscotti.

    Red
        Wine
             Stew




Plums, cherries, blueberries and other fruits were cooked in red wine to create a light syrup.
It was served with spice ice cream and a Florentine tuile. I was so happy because this was the first time that I was able to actually scoop the ice cream in the egg shape like this. It took so many desserts and so many tries that I finally got it down. Once you think about the technique and practice at it, it actually is not as I thought it was. Practice makes prefect!




            Crepe 
                   Suzette





Crepe Suzette is traditionally made with an orange butter and a flambe with orange liquor





      Chocolate -Tea
              Cremeux







This dessert is made up of four components, a chocolate cremeux, lemon cream(with a citrus jelly), earl grey tea ice cream, and a chocolate streusel. It was supposed to have a chocolate sauce,but with so much chocolate and the chocolate cremeux had a very strong chocolate flavor we decided to leave it off.