2 Fuss-Free Dessert Recipes To Wow Your Guests At Your Next Party

We all love digging into an indulgent slice of dessert after a heavy meal. Making a dessert isn’t as easy as eating one. We are all obsessed with small, one-cup desserts to satisfy our cravings. We bring to you two simple, easy-to-follow recipes curated by Chef Manish Mehrotra to help with your sweet tooth, wow your guests at your next party, or to just get indulgent.

Almond & Cherry Kulfi

Servings: 4

Prep Time: 15 mins

Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients:

Fresh cherries, pitted 2 cups

Water ½ cup

Almond milk 4 cups

Condensed milk ½ cup

Heavy cream ½ cup

Sugar 1/2 cup

Almond meal ½ cup

Toasted almond flakes 1 tbsp

Method:

• Place cherries, water and ¼ cup sugar in a pan over low flame. cook, stirring 5-6, minutes till the cherries soften and mixture thickens. allow to cool and set aside.

• In a pan, add almond milk and put it on a low flame. keep on stirring; do not let the almond milk burn. the milk will start to thicken.

• Once it becomes half the volume add the almond meal, condensed milk, and sugar and mix them well. Allow it to cool slightly and stir in the heavy cream. strain the mixture.

• Add cooked cherry compote and mix well. allow the kulfi mixture to cool, pour it into kulfi molds or small bowls, and freeze them.

• Demould the kulfi and serve it garnished with toasted almond flakes.

Badam Milk Mousse, Almond Biscuit

Servings: 4

Prep Time: 15 mins

Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients:

For badam milk mousse

Almond flakes 45 gms

Almond milk 150 ml

White chocolate 425 gm

Bakery cream 400 ml

Egg yolk 5 no

Fine sugar 50 gm

Saffron ½ gm

Green cardamom powder ½ tsp

For biscotti

Unsalted butter 75 gms

Castor sugar 100 gms

Egg 1no

Refined flour 150 gm

Baking soda 1 gm

Baking powder 3 gm

Almond with skin 50 gm

Almond powder 25 gm

Zest of lemon 1 no

Method:

For badam milk mousse

• Roast almonds flakes in preheated oven at 180 degree celsius for 4 minutes or till golden in colour.

• Heat almond milk. add white chocolate and make the ganache. add saffron threads and green cardamom powder, and mix it thoroughly.

• Whisk yolks and sugar till creamy consistency.

• Beat bakery cream to ribbon consistency.

• Fold the ganache in beaten yolk and then fold the beaten cream into it.

• Pour the mousse into a cup and chill, till it sets.

• Garnish mousse with slivers of almonds and almond biscotti.

For biscotti

• Roughly chop almonds with the skin.

• Lightly cream butter and sugar in a mixing bowl. add egg to a bowl and again cream it.

• Add refined flour, baking soda, baking powder, lemon zest, and almond powder to it mixture and mix it thoroughly

• Fold in roughly chopped almonds.

• Shape the mixture like a french loaf and bake it at 180 celsius for 20 minutes.

• Cool the loaf, cut it into thin slices, and bake it at 150 celsius for 8 to 10 minutes or till crisp

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