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.

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

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

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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