Sunday, January 8, 2012

Mascarpone


New Dessert:  Mascarpone Cremeux, milk chocolate, espresso, lemon stracciatella sorbet

This dessert showcases some of my favorite italian flavors. I find that chocolate and lemon is a surprisingly great combination. The sorbet is similar to an italian ice and has subtle notes of limoncello. It is a stracciatella in that when the sorbet is churning, I slowly pour in tempered dark chocolate. It sets instantly and makes tiny shards of chocolate dispersed in the ice cream. It is a refined chocolate chip ice cream except that it is actually sorbet. The puffs are meringues made with pure espresso. They are packed full of intense espresso flavor in a little puff that dissolves in your mouth.

My favorite part of this is dessert though, is that it is totally gluten free. It has a flourless cake, flourless cocoa crumbs, and gluten free puffs. Gluten free diners don't even believe that it is when they look at it but it is sans gluten!