Thursday, 3 July 2014

You too can make Dessert Pizza just like the professionals!

A few years ago I was introduced to Dessert Pizza, at the time it seemed not quite right, eating sweet, fruit as a Pizza topping. I was hooked instantly! We have formulated an easy Dessert Pizza from using Tropical Fast & Fruity as the base ingredient, with hints of pineapple and mange it couldn't be better!
We hope you like this also.

Ingredients
1 x 500gm pouch of Fast & Fruity Tropical
Thin crust Pizza base (we brought ours)
150gms Desiccated Coconut
100gms Cream Cheese
100gms dried Cranberry’s (or any other dried fruit)
100gms – White Chocolate (Melted once pizza is cooked)
1 Banana

Method
Heat oven to 200deg, placed a thin crust Pizza base on flat oven sheet commence building your scrumptious dessert pizza.
Spread cream cheese evenly over base, with some generous blobs throughout. Then cover entire base (and cream cheese) with Tropical Fast & Fruity (depending on size of base you may not use entire pouch). Sprinkle desiccated coconut over the top, followed by the cranberries.
Finely slice the banana and place slices across the middle of the base. (we sprinkled a little brown sugar over Banana to get that golden caramelised look)
Bake in the centre of the oven for between 15 – 20mins (depending on what the pack instructions say) once base is cooked and coconut is toasted and banana is toasted, remove Pizza from oven, place on board and decorate with melted chocolate, we piped the chocolate on finely. Use your preference of chocolate white or dark. (One option for kids is to sprinkle Mini marshmallows over before cooking)
Bon Appetite!

Tuesday, 1 July 2014

Tried and trusted Winter Warmers - Berry Rumble Crumble

Now that winter is here how nice would it be to be able to whip up a hot, tasty dessert for the family (or yourself) its so easy the kids could make this for you.

Ingredients:
1 x 500gm pouch of Berry Fast & Fruity
Crumble topping:
1 cup flour
1/2 cup brown sugar firmly packed
1 cup rolled oats
 ½ cup of your favorite mixed nuts toasted (chopped finely)
1 tsp mixed spice
100g soft Butter

Method
Preheat oven to 160 deg C
Lightly toast mixed nuts on a roastng pan, toss nuts to achevie even toasting, leave oven at temperature to cook crumble.
In a bowl combine all crumble ingredients, add semi soft butter last, to get your preffered crumble consistancy, do not over mix.
Lightly grease oven dish/remekins  (optional edition) add a layer of extra thinly sliced apples to bottom of ramekin if prefer a thicker consistency.
Pour Berry Fast & Fruity into prepared dishes . Add crumble topping, bake at approximately 160deg C for 35-40 minutes until crumble is bubbling and golden brown.
Serve with vanilla ice cream and or a  dollop of whip cream or cream fraiche on the side.