Type: Dessert one-basics
One basic pumpkin caramel: baked apples with pumpkin caramel and rye crumbs
An apple a day, right? There are two desserts that celebrate the humble apple in this chapter. Alongside the roulade (p. 232)…
One basic flaky pie dough: blueberry and cream cheese crostata
The least sweet (but nonetheless moreish) of our desserts is this crostata, thanks to the cream cheese, lime and not overly sweet…
One basic yeasted dough: chocolate, orange and pistachio buns (aka v’s fabulous buns)
In quintessential Verena fashion, these buns are a way to start the day on a decadent, pillowy high, via bread. They are…
One basic meringue roulade: brown sugar meringue roulade with burnt honey apples
If the flavours of autumn could be rolled into one, this meringue roulade would be the result: warming cinnamon, burnt honey, sweet…
Granita with chilli lime pineapple and crispy coconut
Pineapples and coconuts and chillies and limes: we all adore these ingredients together (and individually), but one of us in particular loves…
One basic mousse: coffee mousse with tahini fudge
When it comes to desserts, this one couldn’t be easier. It isn’t a classic mousse, where you’d whip together egg yolks and…
One basic labneh: lemon posset, meringue and burnt lemon
Simple ingredients made super special could not ring more true for these lemon possets. It’s well worth the effort, though, for the…
One basic hazelnut praline: devil’s food cake
This is everything Verena loves in cake form, and so Noor channelled her inner pastry chef in dedicating this cake wholeheartedly to…
One basic crème anglaise: tahdig ice cream
This ice cream celebrates all the comfort that rice has to offer, in the sweetest way possible, of course. There’s a bit…