Cold Tropical Desserts

[chocolate lover]

Hi!

For a school project, I need to come up with a hot and cold dessert, along with a cake. For the hot dessert, I was thinking of making a banana creme brulee, the cake, mango mousse cake. But I couldn't think of any cold desserts to pair up with these 2 items. I didn't want to do a sherbet/ice cream for my cold dessert as it would be pretty risky and I was thinking of making jelly, with pineapple and coconut bits, but I'm afraid it would be too simple.

Any ideas to share? Thanks in advance!

-Putri

[JeanneCake]

You could do a fruit soup, but I wonder if the banana brulee is going to count as "hot" since it's only the top that's torched - the custard itself is cold.

[tmriga]

tapioca goes very nicely with tropical fruits.

Theresa

[merstar]

For a hot dessert, you could do poached pears, or a molten chocolate cake. (Unless it all has to be tropical).

Edited November 13, 2010 by merstar (log)

[janeer]

how about some sort of blancmange made with coconut milk and garnished with fruit and maybe some sort of scented nutty cookie or even a brittle.

I once made ice cream for a school project. I didn't think of it as risky.

[baroness]

Sticky rice with coconut

[chocolate lover]

You could do a fruit soup, but I wonder if the banana brulee is going to count as "hot" since it's only the top that's torched - the custard itself is cold.

hmm....you've got a point. I will check it with my chef tmr, just to make sure

[chocolate lover]

For a hot dessert, you could do poached pears, or a molten chocolate cake. (Unless it all has to be tropical).

yup! all of it has got to be tropical.

[chocolate lover]

how about some sort of blancmange made with coconut milk and garnished with fruit and maybe some sort of scented nutty cookie or even a brittle.

I once made ice cream for a school project. I didn't think of it as risky.

Oh yes! good idea, i shall research on it! thanks for your advice! haha.ooo...I am just afraid that too many people will be using the ice cream machine.

[chocolate lover]

Sticky rice with coconut

haha.my classmate enquired about that but my chef said to leave that to our asian sweets module.thanks anw!

[janeer]

how about some sort of blancmange made with coconut milk and garnished with fruit and maybe some sort of scented nutty cookie or even a brittle.

I once made ice cream for a school project. I didn't think of it as risky.

Oh yes! good idea, i shall research on it! thanks for your advice! haha.ooo...I am just afraid that too many people will be using the ice cream machine.

Oh, that's what you mean by risky...thought you meant you were worried about texture, or melting, or something. When I did it, making ice cream was not very common...long ago, obviously.

[Sheryl D]

How about a frozen mousse - chocolate and passion fruit. Or semifreddo.

Coconut panna cotta with guava sauce and toasted coconut and macadamia nuts.

If you want to go more unique, look into pandan as a flavoring. Really a nice flavor.

Or ice cream mochi.

Baked alaska with coconut cake. There are so many ice creams you could pair with it. I love the many many tropical fruits - if you have access to them. Sour sop is really good. Ube is also fun with the color.

Or do ice cream sandwich for a playful twist. Macadamia nut cookies, stuffed with tropical ice creams.

[Kouign Aman]

Guanabana shake or sherbet.

Even frozen chunks of guanabana (cherimoya) are creamy-textured.