10 Pretty Spring Desserts to make now … fresh & colorful

10 PRETTY Spring Desserts to make now, desserts that scream colour, are fresh and exciting, promise to uplift the spirit, make you feel light. There’s that welcome lightness in the air after winter, everything renews itself, the soul wakes up to new leaves & buds, flowers everywhere, butterflies, bees, birds singing, cool air, mulberries … everything hits the reset button after a long, cold, wet winter.

Here in the plains of North India, we’ve had a short, crisp Spring and much like last year, it lasted barely a couple of weeks. The transition these past few years has been very quick from a very harsh winter to an extremely hot summer while we try and hang on to a clutch of pleasant days that spell Spring.

Last week we saw Spring literally disappear when we hit 35C in the first week of March, then quite inexplicably for some strange reason, early this week we had a very welcome dip in temperatures. Very unexpectedly, we are happily back into the low 20’s, even touching 19C!

For just that, it’s time to celebrate Spring and how better can I do it than share a bunch of pretty desserts that can make you giggle with happiness, feel renewed and celebrate with nature. It’s all about colour, it’s all about natural flavours and seasonal produce!

I live life in colour and my desserts definitely follow suit. Colours and flavours inspired by seasons, my surroundings, flowers, birds, ingredients … everything is fair game! I’m constantly chasing birds that we are very fortunate to have at home, checking my little garden for new flowers, leave, herbs, fruit blossoms. I’m always fascinated, always inspired.

With the season changing, with Spring here, there’s so much renewed bird activity, it makes my heart sing. Just adds to the joy of creating desserts, inspired by the beauty of nature that surrounds us!

Robins, bulbuls, parrots, peahens, elusive copper headed barbets, koels, little silver bills, Oriental white-eyes, swallows or drongos, the rare sighting of the grey hornbill, sparrows back from almost having disappeared a few years ago, 7 sisters or jungle babblers, pigeons by the hundreds, gentle doves, also Rufus Treepie and the chicks below …

My heart is full! To add to the joy, these days we have a ton of strawberries flooding the market, the tangerine/kumquat shrub is in full bloom, my mint is threatening to run wild, rosemary is exploding with new shoots, thyme is finally looking happy. All this makes me so happy too…

So here are a few of my favourite desserts for this time of the year. They’re all eggless of course because I think I’ve mastered the art of eggless baking quite nicely, and they’re all flavoured naturally. Au naturel ingredients, no added colours or flavours, desserts that are a lovely treat, each one different from the other.

Think desserts in stem glasses, think layered cakes, think trifles & tarts, think tart cakes, think dessert boxes, think galettes, think mousse as light as air, just think of how fun and colourful dessert can be! And these desserts are just the tip of the iceberg...

Make them as they are or take inspiration from seasonal fresh produce or from nature and create your own version with ingredients you can source easily or perhaps already have on hand. Most desserts I make are quick, may look like a lot of work yet are very simple and straightforward. Many of them are make ahead, infinitely adaptable to different flavours and can be scaled quite easily. Also, since these are all eggless, they’re easily made vegan. For me that’s the joy of dessert, something for everyone!

10 Pretty Spring Desserts to make now

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