White Chocolate Panna Cotta with chocolate castor sugar coated leaves. A golden gooseberry and sliced strawberry for decoration with sauce.
White Chocolate Panna Cotta
A question often asked is what is panna cotta. Its a cooked cream and sugar with flavor and set with gelatin that makes an easy dessert. Decorated with fruits or chocolate or any other sauces.
Panna cotta can be made in a glass with different flavors chilled for it not to be mixed. Also served plated with decoration for an elegant dessert.
This dessert can be kept for up to ten days covered in the fridge.
What does panna cotta literally mean?
Panna cotta is a traditional Italian dessert which literally translates as ‘cooked cream’. Hailing from the region of Piedmont in Italy, it is a simple mixture of sweetened cream and gelatine.
What cream is best for panna cotta?
Panna cotta means “cooked cream” in Italian, and that’s essentially what the base is, Heated heavy cream (often with a little half-and-half or whole milk) mixed with gelatin powder and flavored with vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste.
What is the closest thing to heavy cream?
The best heavy cream substitute ideas.
- Half-and-Half and Butter. A combination of half-and-half and butter makes the best all-around heavy cream substitute.
- Milk and butter
- Evaporated milk (ideal milk)
- Coconut cream.
- Cream cheese.
- Greek yogurt and milk.
- Soya milk and olive oil.
Ingredients
Ingredients of the fruit for ideas to place on the panna cotta.
Get the exact ingredients on the recipe attached.
strawberry sliced for decoration on plate.
a golden gooseberry placed on top of the panna cotta for taste and decoration.
Decorations Ideas
You can make these chocolate decorations before you make the panna cotta according to the recipe provided. Or make these chocolate leaves while the panna cotta is chilling and setting in the fridge.
These images are to show you what you can do with the chocolate for decorations. Once you melt the dark chocolate let it set on a leaf for the shape. Other wise make shapes you prefer that are easier.
To decorate you can simply melt the chocolate and pipe this pattern on some wax paper to set. Anything is great to decorate this panna cotta to serve for a fine dining dessert.
How to
The panna cotta has been set and plated on a serving dish, decorate with cut strawberry on the side and place the gooseberry on the chocolate leaf like decorations. But we did sprinkle some castor sugar over the leaves and panna cotta to serve with a strawberry sauce dotted on the plate. (decorating is anything you can do simply. choice is yours)
Serving this panna cotta with one or two fruit and chocolate or white chocolate leaves. Dot some sauce on the plate and serve for a pleasing dessert after your meal.
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White Chocolate Panna Cotta
White Chocolate Panna Cotta recipe with chocolate castor sugar coated leaves. A fine dining dessert with fruit and chocolate decoration ideas
- Prep Time: 15 min
- Cook Time: 5 min
- Total Time: 20 min chilled 2 hrs
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: Desserts
- Method: no bake
- Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup of milk and 2 Tablespoon of milk
- 300 ml of thickened cream
- 100 g of white chocolate chopped finely
- 2 Tablespoons of castor sugar (or sweetener of choice)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons of gelatin powder
- Fruit to decorate and chocolate chips to melt and make decorations.
- For the strawberry sauce
- 10 oz strawberries
- 2 Tablespoons of fine sugar
- 2 Tablespoons of brandy
Instructions
- In a pot place the 1/2 cup of milk, cream and white chocolate and castor sugar. On a low heat heat up this mixture until the chocolate has melted and the mixture is smooth just coming to bubble. (Do not boil) Take of the heat.
- In a small bowl add the 2 tablespoons of milk with the powdered gelatin and leave to bloom. once this is done then add it to the pot of cream and chocolate and mix until blended.
- Leave to cool and place in greased ramekins in the fridge for and hour or two until set.
- Before plating place the ramekins in some warm water for a minute to release the panna cotta to plate.
- Cut up some strawberries, add a gooseberry and melt chocolate and make some chocolate decorations of leaves or other for serving the panna cotta.
- To make the strawberry sauce, Crush the fresh strawberries finely with the added sugar and mix well. Add the brandy and mix then leave to stand for an hour before serving on the plate or sprinkled on the panna cotta.
Notes
Any fruit of choice may be used for additional taste or decoration.
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