Desserts SUMMER
BY KATIE CAMPBELL
What is it about summer that makes dessert seem like such a wonderful idea? Ice cream on a hot day feels like such a treat, strawberries and meringue with lashings of cream, or cloud-like cakes loaded with berries and citrus fruits make for the perfect ending to any summertime meal with family or friends.
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posabilitymagazine.co.uk
FROZEN TREATS The high king of dessert is ice cream: truly, all other desserts are just vehicles to get ice cream on your plate, and that’s a beautiful thing. Over the years, the supermarkets have begun stocking more and more in the way of ice creams: you can splurge on a tub of Ben and Jerry’s or Häagen-Dazs if you’re in the market for something luxurious, absolutely, but offerings for people whose diets are dairy-free or those who opt for reduced sugar options are now much easier to come by in supermarkets, with the aforementioned luxury brands even offering their own dairy-free options! If you’re up to the challenge - and seriously, it is a bit of a challenge - you could even try making your own ice cream this summer. Ice cream makers do take a significant portion of the work out of the proceedings, and are available for less than £20 if you do decide to take it up as a new hobby, but they’re not entirely necessary to create lush ice cream. Melissa Clark’s recipe in the New York Times, aptly called The Only Ice Cream Recipe You’ll Ever Need, is a phenomenal base for making just about any flavour of ice cream you can dream up, but it does require a little bit of cooking know-how to get the custard base right. If that sounds a bit much, BBC Good Food’s No-Churn Vanilla Ice Cream recipe takes five minutes to cobble together with a couple of low-cost, easy to find ingredients, and produces the most luxurious condensed milk ice cream after a few hours of freezing. If you want to keep things dairy-free, Olive Magazine has brilliant recipes for super easy sorbet in any flavour you could possibly imagine - including whisky sour sorbet for the discerning adults amongst us!
