![]() ![]() This cookie is used by the website's WordPress theme. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". ![]() The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie is used to record the user consent for the cookies in the "Advertisement" category. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Note: if you can’t get double cream, use standard cream but it may take a little longer for the mixture to thicken.Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. At this stage you can cover the tart and pop it back into the fridge until you’re ready to add the berries and serve.Spoon the filling into the biscuit lined tin and spread out smoothly.Watch closely because it thickens quickly – in less than a minute – and the last thing you want is an over-whipped buttery mess. Using a freestanding or hand mixer, beat the mixture until thick.Add the double cream, vanilla and icing sugar. Spoon the mascarpone into a bowl and give it a quick stir to loosen it up.Selection of your favourite summer berries – I used strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and blueberries Think of it more as an assembly of three perfect offerings from the sweet world, made only slightly more perfect when brought together on one plate. This dessert is so easy to put together I’m hard pushed to even call it a recipe, save for the mascarpone cream. Farro on the North Shore is this fabulous place and local to me, but there are a few stores dotted about Auckland. Speaking of which, I talk a great deal about my local gourmet market. I wish I could claim that I made them myself but I’ll confess that I picked them up at the same market where I bought my berries. They add great texture to a dessert like this where everything from the berries to the mascarpone cream is soft or squidgy in texture. Sweet, but not too sweet and beautifully crisp. They are quite simply one of most delicious things you are ever likely to eat. Sweet dough shaped into ribbons, deep-fried and then dusted with icing sugar. Click here for the recipe.Īs for the Crostoli, these are Italian of course, and somewhere between a cookie and a pastry. It is a key component in my Berry Mascarpone Tart, which incidentally is another fantastic way of serving summer berries. You could, of course, simply serve the berries with whipped cream, but the mascarpone cream adds a touch of decadence. The mascarpone cream is ridiculously easy to make and is one of those recipes that you find yourself turning to time and again because it is so useful and delicious served with just about anything. I chose to serve them simply with mascarpone cream and Italian Crostoli. There are endless ways to serve berries and they grace many a summer dessert. The colours, the freshness, some sweet, some tart, but all utterly delicious. When it comes to the food world no other fruit heralds in summer quite like these beauties. We’ve been fortunate in Auckland to have enjoyed a surprisingly warm late spring and I was overjoyed to find such beautiful, blushing berries on offer at my local market. If you dwell in the Northern Hemisphere, think June strawberries and you’ll know what December strawberries mean to us down here in the south. I think it would be difficult to find a better example of this than summer berries. Food, produce in particular, is always at its most delicious when eaten at the right time of the year. I speak a lot about the joys of eating with the seasons. ![]()
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