Intimate Eats

Trying to heat things up in the bedroom? Why don’t you start with the kitchen? Prepare these indulgent desserts to impress your sweetheart.

Intimate Eats

Cannoli

Ingredients

  • Plain flour: 150 grams
  • Castor sugar: 1 tbsp
  • Cinnamon: ½ tsp
  • Butter: 30 grams
  • White wine: 50 ml
  • Egg: 1
  • Melted dark chocolate: 50 grams
  • Pistachio, finely chopped
  • Icing sugar to dust
  • For the filling: ricotta cheese: 250 grams
  • Mascarpone cheese: 100 grams
  • Choco chips: 2 tsp
  • Lemon zest

Method

  • Mix flour, sugar, and cinnamon into a bowl. Add butter and knead until there are no lumps. Add the egg white and white wine and mix to get a smooth dough.
  • Bake it in the oven at 175 degrees Celsius for 7-8 mins. Wrap each one around a cannoli mould and make sure they’re cooked from all sides.
  • For the filling, beat the ricotta and the mascarpone cheese together. Stir the candied peel and sugar. Spoon the mixture into a piping bag with a wide star nozzle and pipe it in the cannoli. Serve soon after.

By Chef Deepak Nautiyal, La La Land Brew Pub, Gurgaon

Pistachio Coated Black Jamun

Pistachio Coated Black Jamun

Ingredients

  • Gulab jamun: 2
  • Milk: 300 ml
  • Saffron: .05 gm
  • Sugar: 20 grams
  • Pista: 30 grams
  • Rose water: 2 drops
  • Rose petal: .05 grams
  • Green cardamom: 1 pinch

Method

  • Add milk to a pan and let it heat. Later, add saffron, sugar, green cardamom and heat till the milk becomes thick. Add rose water and let it cool.
  • Next, powder the pistachios and wrap it around the gulab jamuns.
  • For plating, pour saffron milk to a bowl first and then place pistachio-coated gulab jamuns in it. Lastly, garnish with rose petals.

By Chef Ramesh Rana, Decode Air Bar, Gurgaon

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Gulab Jamun Rabdi Cheesecake

Gulab Jamun Rabdi Cheesecake

Ingredients

  • Light sugar syrup: 1/2 cup
  • Rose syrup: 2 tsp
  • Vanilla sponge: thin layer
  • Gulab jamun sliced: 300 grams
  • Thick rabadi: 300 grams
  • Mascarpone cheese: 100 grams
  • Saffron: half gram
  • Gelatin: 15 grams
  • Crushed pistachio: 10 grams

Method

  • Soak saffron in warm water, mix mascarpone, saffron and rabdi together. Dissolve gelatin in warm water, add it to the rabdi cheese mix.
  • Take vanilla sponge and set it in a cake ring, moisten it with sugar and rose syrup water, put a mascarpone cheese layer on it and set a layer of gulab jamun slices.
  • Cover it with a layer of rabdi and mascarpone mix, again repeat a layer and keep it in the refrigerator to set. Remove the ring and garnish it with pistachios and sugar candy.

By Corporate Chef Sanjay Singh Yadav, Vapour Bar Exchange, Gurgaon

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