I don't know why we seem to find the time and inclination for dessert when we don't exactly bother with it at home.
People seem to take alot of pride in their desserts here. In places where we've had crap food, their desserts were the opposite. I don't know much about the workings of restaurants in UK. But I'm guessing that they definitely have a separate and usually talented pastry chef.
We returned to the cafe at Tate Modern for its desserts. I can't stand macarons anymore. By now, we've tried all its current desserts on the menu. At £4.95 per item, I thought them rather reasonable for the quality of the ingredients used. I love the flourless chocolate cake and fig and marsala trifle. Its Caerphilly cheese with apple chutney and oat cakes (£5.95) are quite unusual (for me) as well.
This time, we had the sticky toffee pudding with milk ice-cream and pear and cinnamon crumble with vanilla ice-cream. They use proper vanilla beans in their vanilla ice-cream!!!! (Like Tillamook ice-cream in our supermarkets) I hate the crap vanilla ice-cream served by so many Singapore cafes. Both are heavenly. Melting bits of goodness. I love how they do ice-cream here.
Dessert + a good brew of coffee or (a hot cup of loose leaf tea) = A fantastic afternoon.
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I read a recipe for snow ice cream the other day that I was very tempted to try. You take cream, sugar and you stir in snow! Apparently environmental pollution levels were low enough that day to try it, but then I had second thoughts as I had a flight to catch :)
ooh..yumz!
flourless chocolate cake! that's the chocolate cake for adults. yumms!
dawn: i'm NOT tempted to try! snow is dirty-period.
pebbles: very!
sinlady: i know! that flourless chocolate cake is awesome.
*drool*
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