Category: PANNA COTTA

15 Prettiest Mother’s Day Eggless Desserts As Sweet As Her … Love for Mum

It’s Mother’s Day tomorrow, and if you’re still looking for creative and beautiful quick desserts to make for that special Mum, I have you covered! It’s a mix of ideas, recipes of course, ideas that are eggless, bake and no bake, and are full of love, colour too!

There’s something for every Mum. Chocolate, coffee, a TON of fruits, AND a ton of flavours. Cheesecake, layered cakes, panna cotta, Tiramisu, tart cakes, dessert shots, tarts, cupcakes, pudding … take your pick! From a quick 3 ingredient chocolate pudding to a Strawberry Orange Tart Cake and a #nogelatine pistachio panna cotta, here you go!

Of course there are many more ideas on the blog and loads more on my Instagram handle if you like! This Eggless Wholewheat Biscoff Banana Bread is a favourite, just saying! If you’re looking for a quick gift and have no time to make something, maybe she’d like my cookbook!

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

The simplest & most delicious No Bake Mango Cheesecake
Sweet, creamy, indulgent and so satisfying, if Mum loves mangoes, make this for her. A recipe that uses just 4 ingredients for the cheesecake filling, this is the quickest, eggless, no bake mango cheesecake I've ever made!
Check out this recipe
Tiramisu heart cake… A gentle, delicious dessert for tiramisu lovers and coffee lovers, dessert lovers too!
This one is for Mum the coffee lover! It's a gentle, delicious dessert for tiramisu lovers and coffee lovers, dessert lovers too! This is ALL HEART!
Check out this recipe
Eggless Blue Matcha Chocolate Cavity Cake
It's endlessly fascinating to see the shades of blue that the butterfly pea flower reflects in the blue matcha tea. There's something so calming and ethereal about blue in patisserie, it's a great choice for Mother's Day!
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Eggless Raspberry Chocolate Cake
An eggless chocolate sponge, deep delicious ganache, bright fresh raspberries topped with the smoothest and most luxurious mascarpone cream. The flavours do a magic dance on the palette, each spoonful delightful. The raspberries were quite special here though you can always use strawberries if you like. Makes 4 small cakes.
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Pistachio Panna Cotta with Raspberry Sauce
I love using natural colours of ingredients in desserts and this pistachio panna cotta is one Mum will fall in love with. The #nogelatine dessert is as simple as can be, and requires just 4 ingredients.
Check out this recipe
Eggless Strawberry Orange Tart Cake
… a delicious burst of flavours and colours in a tart which is a cake OR a cake that looks like a tart! If Mum loves a tart this is for her, and if Mum loves a good cake, you know this is it! Win Win for sweet Mum!
Check out this recipe
Eggless Strawberry Dessert Box
… Light as a cloud and bursting with fresh flavours, a refreshing dessert box you can wrap up for Mum. The little strawberries on the sides are all heart and just what she's going to love!
Check out this recipe
Quick Biscoff Dessert Shots
Delicious layers of happiness on repeat! These simple dessert shots are absolute joy; so much flavour and texture, oh-so-pleasing on the palette, it's a fuss free dessert inspired by much loved Biscoff. The pairing of these crisp biscuits and biscuit spread, a taste that grows on you, will make Mum so happy!
Check out this recipe
3 Ingredient Chocolate Cheesecake
Light, delicious and mousse like, this no bake cheesecake uses just 3 ingredients, 5 if you include the base. When so little yields so much deliciousness, you know it's time to make it! And if Mum loves chocolate, or cheesecake, or both, this is definitely a good idea ♥
Check out this recipe
No bake Mango Mascarpone Tart
Here's another scrumptious idea for Mum the mango lover! A crisp biscuit crumb gives way to a nice bite of slightly tart mango, then the sweetness of mascarpone floods the palette. The jelly really makes this shine!
Check out this recipe
Eggless Saffron Pistachio Cupcakes with Saffron Buttercream
Sweet dreams are made of these! Festive, simple and ever so delicious, these are literal cupcakes baked in demitasse cups. Perfect for Mum. I'm sure she'll love the idea!
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3 Ingredient Chocolate Pudding
.. Rich, deeply delicious, satiny smooth and ever so easy, anyone can stir this up in a matter of minutes. Nothing can comfort the soul like a good indulgent old school chocolate pudding. This is going to be ahit with Mum!
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Vegan Rose Coconut Pudding
A light, refreshing vegan jelly pudding perfect for spring and summer, perfect for now and PERFECT FOR MUM! With just 4 ingredients, this wobbly pudding is as simple as it is delicious!
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Biscoff Banoffee Box
This is love at first bite. It's such fun when a handful of ingredients come together so deliciously. If Mum loves a good banoffee, this Biscoff twist to the banoffee is everything good. It's really easy to make as well.
Check out this recipe
Eggless Ombre Layered Cake… Delicate, delicious and so soothing.
The chocolate, coffee and vanilla bean combination really is sublime. This feels like a tiramisu yet does a different waltz on the palette, a different flavour profile! Maybe it's the mascarpone cream that keeps it so addictive, maybe it's the pairing of flavours but this ombre cake will win Mums ♥.
Check out this recipe

Addictive Pistachio Panna Cotta with Raspberry Sauce… colourful dessert you will love

Pistachio Panna Cotta with Raspberry Sauce … a gently set, smooth, soft no gelatine panna cotta, with pistachios really adding Spring feels. The bright, vibrant raspberries add just the right tang to every spoon of this dessert. You could use a strawberry sauce too or perhaps a deep saffron jelly to top it.

Hello Spring. There’s an energy in the air and everything feels lighter already. It’s a welcome break from a long, cold winter, though it’s turning out to be a very short Spring. We barely had two weeks of below 20C temperatures and now we’re well into the 30’s, a sign that summer is well on it’s way.

I had some pistachios left over from an earlier collaboration with the USDA and had been waiting to make a pistachio panna cotta for a bit. The set is never easy to get when you go the no gelatine way. It’s also not the same as a jiggly, smooth, jelly like classic gelatine panna cotta set because of differing properties of the plant based setting agent, agar agar. This is the brand I use. The good thing about using agar agar is that you can adjust the quantities, reheat the mixture and begin again if the set is not to your liking.

I reached this panna cotta set after several attempts. Even if the classic panna cotta jiggle was missing, the taste of this Pistachio Panna Cotta with raspberry sauce was sublime. Smooth, soft, gentle, rich, delicious, indulgent … pistachios can offer so much to a simple dessert, it’s amazing!

One look at the collage above, and you can easily tell that pistachio is one of my favourite ingredients in desserts. It’s also so absolutely versatile as a topping, a garnish for a pop of colour. Pistachios pair beautifully with some of my favourite flavours – saffron, strawberries, chocolate, rose, orange, mangoes, apricots, cherries, plums, vanilla too. And of course with raspberries like in the Pistachio Panna Cotta!

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

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Pistachio Panna Cotta with Raspberry Sauce

I love using natural colours of ingredients in desserts and this pistachio panna cotta is one of my new favourites. The #nogelatine dessert is as simple as can be, and requires just 4 ingredients.
Makes 4 X 150g servings
Course Dessert
Cuisine Indian, Italian
Keyword agar agar, chocolate, cream, eggfree, eggless, gluten free, no bake, vegetarian
Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 5 minutes
Setting 8 hours
Total Time 9 hours 5 minutes
Servings 4 people

Ingredients

Pistachio panna cotta

  • 300 g cream 25% fat
  • 2 1/4 tsp agar agar
  • 100 g milk
  • 75 g castor sugar
  • 200 g pistachios blanched/peeled

Raspberry sauce

  • 85 g frozen raspberries
  • 25 g sugar
  • 1/8 tsp agar agar

Instructions

Pistachio panna cotta

  • Whisk together the cream, milk, sugar and agar agar in a heavy bottom saucepan. Simmer stirring constantly for 2-3 minutes to activate the agar agar.
  • Add the pistachios and blend until smooth.
  • Pour into molds and refrigerate to set overnight. If you are using silicon molds, you can place them in the freezer until frozen, then demold and leave in the fridge for 2-3 hours to defrost.

Raspberry sauce

  • Simmer together until soft and slightly thick.
  • Strain and use.

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Delicious Lotus Biscoff Desserts you need to try … one for every day of the week!

If you are a fan of Lotus Biscoff and it’s hard to see why not, here are 7 unique recipes to make with either a jar of Biscoff spread {smooth please} or Biscoff biscuits, or both! I have you covered for dessert every day of the week. Each idea is different and exciting, things I brought together in my little kitchen. Read on …

And if you haven’t dived into a jar of the spread as yet or nibbled one of these crisp flavourful caramelised biscuits, then you honestly don’t know what you’re missing!! It’s hard not to fall in love with the beautifully flavoured, gently spiced biscuits that are originally known as speculoos. They are vegan too I hear.

Speculoos (sold as Biscoff in the United States and the United Kingdom) is a biscuit originally manufactured in Belgium. Although the name is similar to speculaas, speculoos is a different product. The biscuits are made without the mixture of spices used in speculaas.

The main ingredients of speculoos are wheat flour, candy syrup (from beet sugar), fat, and sometimes cinnamon. Fewer spices are involved in the process of making Belgian speculoos compared to the Dutch speculaas, as the spices were much more expensive to import to Belgium as opposed to the Netherlands. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculoos
Lotus Biscoff Panna Cotta, no gelatine
Smooth, indulgent, satisfying and so delicious, this #nogelatine panna cotta is heavenly! Every spoonful of the dessert is indulgent, almost like digging into a jar of Biscoff, only lighter and creamier just like a good panna cotta should be!
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Biscoff Banoffee Box
This is love at first bite. It's such fun when a handful of ingredients come together so deliciously. We love a good banoffee at home, and this Biscoff twist to the banoffee was everything good. It's really easy to make as well.
Check out this recipe
Lotus Biscoff Dessert Shots
Delicious layers of happiness on repeat! These simple dessert shots turned out to be an absolute joy! So much flavour, and texture and oh-so-pleasing on the palette, it's another fuss free dessert inspired by much loved Biscoff.
https://bit.ly/3GNmsqp
Check out this recipe
Lotus Biscoff Tiramisu
or dessert heaven! It's another dessert on my list of 'must make again soon' and it's all thanks to Biscoff! Just when I thought Tiramisu couldn't get any better, here comes my most favorite version yet. It's simple, it's deep, it's delightful and it has the most amazing coffee caramel notes. 
https://bit.ly/3WhLcgf
Check out this recipe
Lotus Biscoff Cheesecake Cup
Layers of absolute joy with a gentle play of delicious flavours and textures. It's hard not to get tempted by a jar of Biscoff if you have one on hand, so it's best to hit dessert mode pretty soon. Add some crisp caramel flavoured Biscoff biscuits to it and you have magic!
https://bit.ly/3CVTJ1M
Check out this recipe
Lotus Biscoff Tiramisu Tart
Never underestimate the deliciousness that Biscoff brings to dessert!If you're looking for a really satisfying dessert and love everything Biscoff or everything caramel or speculoos cookies or tarts in general, look no further. The Biscoff dessert box was much loved when I shared it last week, so I knew that jar of Biscoff spread should be headed for another dessert {rather than spoonful's in my mouth}
https://bit.ly/3QJ4t9g
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Lotus Biscoff Dessert Box
Refreshing, delicious and addictive, where each layer calls your name! Bringing together these dessert boxes has become a whole lot of fun, and I am grateful for all the comments and DMs I get. Ever since I shared the first one, I've had several requests for a Biscoff Dessert Box and I finally succumbed to temptation! Here's another play of textures and flavours for you.
Check out this recipe

Do tag me on Instagram at Passionate About Baking if you make this, or any other recipe from the blog. I’d love to see it!

Ombre Coffee Chocolate Panna Cotta …with a deep coffee sauce

This Ombre Coffee Chocolate Panna Cotta brings together two things I love the most – panna cotta and desserts in ombre, the blending of one colour hue to another. Make it three – coffee too! Or four – vanilla beans. Definitely five things – chocolate!

I really held my breath as I demolded this panna cotta not sure it would hold together. I loved the way it slid out, one shade slowly following another, the perfect jiggle, charming hues. Made a quick coffee sauce I stirred over the stove top though the panna cotta is really good on it’s own as well. Creamy, deep flavours, satisfying.

It was the first time I was using these molds that I had bought in New York from a thrift store two years ago. With traveling now a distant dream, cities seem to come alive as I use kitchenware I’ve bought from different places.

The earlier Petite Eggless Triple Chocolate Orange Cakes, eclair shaped, were made using molds from Old Delhi. For me, it’s often nostalgia and memories that help me create, keep me happy in the kitchen. You?

Panna cotta is one of my favourite desserts to make, and you will find a whole lot of them on the blog. From Coffee White Chocolate Panna Cotta, to Dark Chocolate Panna Cotta, Mousse-a-Cotta with salted caramel, Saffron Caramel Panna Cotta, Bru Coffee Panna Cotta, Espresso Panna Cotta, Mango Vanilla Bean Panna Cotta, Dark Chocolate Cream with Coffee Panna Cotta or Buttermilk Vanilla Bean Panna Cotta with balsamic strawberries, I’ve made so many! This is yet another favourite, prettier because it’s ombre!

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Ombre Coffee Chocolate Panna Cotta…with a deep coffee sauce

Ombre Coffee Chocolate Panna Cotta brings together two things I love the most – panna cotta and desserts in ombre. Loved the way it slid out, one shade slowly following another, the perfect jiggle, charming hues. Made a quick coffee sauce too though the panna cotta is really good on it's own as well. Creamy, deep flavours, satisfying.
Course Dessert
Cuisine Italian
Keyword chocolate, coffee, dessert, eggless, nobake, panna cotta
Servings 6

Equipment

  • 1 cup = 240ml
  • saucepan
  • bowls
  • whisk
  • strainer
  • spatula
  • 2 X 3.5" dessert molds/rings or dessert glasses
  • Stove top

Ingredients

Vanilla bean main mixture

  • 3 cups cream Amul, 20% fat
  • 1 cup milk
  • 5 tbsp light brown sugar
  • 1 vanilla bean split
  • 1.5 tbsp gelatin + 2.5 tbsp water

Coffee layer

  • 2 tbsp instant coffee powder

Chocolate layer

  • 2 tbsp cocoa powder
  • 1/4 cup melted chocolate
  • 2 tbsp cream

Coffee sauce

  • 2 tbsp light corn syrup
  • 1/4 cup light brown sugar
  • 2 tbsp coffee powder {or less}
  • 2-3 tbsp water

Instructions

  • Lightly oil the setting mold, and line the bottom well with aluminium foil sealing to make a base. I used two 3.5″ X 3.5″ circular steel dessert molds.
  • Sprinkle the gelatin over water, and leave to soften/bloom.
  • Place the cream, milk, sugar and vanilla bean in a heavy base saucepan and simmer for 5 minutes. Taste and adjust sweetness if required. Whisk on the bloomed gelatin.
  • Scrape the vanilla bean to add flavour and discard shell. Strain.
  • Divide the vanilla bean cream mixture into 3 portions.
  • Leave one as is {vanilla bean layer}, stir the coffee into the second portion, and whisk the cocoa powder, melted chocolate and cream into the third.
  • Pour the first mixture, the vanilla bean panna cotta, dividing equally between the molds. Freeze for 30 minutes/until set.
  • Top the set vanilla bean panna cotta gently with the coffee panna cotta mixture. Freeze for 30 minutes, until set, then top with the chocolate portion.
  • Leave to set in the fridge overnight.
  • To demold, gently remove the foil from the base, and loosed the edges to slide out the panna cotta.
  • Serve as is or with a coffee sauce.

Coffee sauce

  • Place in a saucepan over low heat until the sugar dissolves and the sauce is clear and glossy. Cool and pour over, or serve with the panna cotta. The sauce will firm up as it cools.

Lime Infused Panna Cotta with berries & fizz

Lime Infused Panna Cotta with berries & fizz to ring in 2021. Bring out your favourite stem glasses and make this simple stunning dessert that everyone will love! It’s just a simple, quick to make panna cotta that’s been infused with lime zest and set over fresh berries.

Panna cotta is one of my favourite desserts to make especially if I’m in a hurry, OR, if I run out of ideas! You can pretty much infuse the cream with any flavour and serve this beautiful dessert in a million different ways! From Coffee White Chocolate Panna Cotta, to Dark Chocolate Panna Cotta, Mousse-a-Cotta with salted caramel, Saffron Caramel Panna Cotta, Bru Coffee Panna Cotta, Espresso Panna Cotta, Mango Vanilla Bean Panna Cotta, Dark Chocolate Cream with Coffee Panna Cotta or Buttermilk Vanilla Bean Panna Cotta with balsamic strawberries, I’ve made so many!

The Lime Infused Berry Panna Cotta with berries & fizz is a simple recipe just fizzed up to make it look exciting!! It’s also quite fuss free and quick to make yet is quite a show stopper. Use your favourite trusted panna cotta recipe or use mine. Desserts in glasses are always fun, and set individually are crowd pleasers.

What’s not to love about a pretty dessert in a stem glass with bubbly poured over. Top it with champagne else even Appy Fizz or Sprite. Just a few bubbles and fizz bring the presentation alive. Sip the bubbly and then enjoy a creamy, sublime panna cotta! Have a wonderful 2021!

Favourite glassware from @devnow.

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Lime Infused Berry Panna Cotta with berries & fizz

Lime Panna Cotta with berries and fizz to ring in New Years. Bring out your favourite stem glasses and make this simple stunning dessert that everyone will love!
Course Dessert
Cuisine Italian
Keyword dessert, eggless, glutenfree, homemade, no bake, sweet
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 4 hours 25 minutes
Servings 3 people

Ingredients

Lime Infused Panna Cotta

  • 450 g cream {Amul, 20% fat}
  • 40 g sugar
  • Zest of 1/2 lime
  • 2 tsp gelatin
  • 1 cup berries {strawberries blueberries, cape gooseberries}

To top

  • 500 ml champagne appy fizz etc
  • 200 g mixed fresh berries
  • Few sprigs fresh mint edible flowers

Instructions

  • Warm 400g cream with the sugar until the sugar has melted. Add in the lime zest and steep for about an hour.
  • Bloom the gelatin in the remaining 50ml cream for 5 minutes, until soft.
  • Reheat the cream to a bare simmer, take off the heat.
  • Stir in the bloomed gelatin. Once well mixed, strain and divide among serving glasses. Leave to set in fridge for 4-5 hours.
  • Once set, top the panna cotta with fresh berries & a sprig of mint each.
  • Pour over the fizz and serve immediately.
  • Note: If using agar agar, add it directly to cream and simmer for 5 minutes, stirring often after the cream has been infused.

Dark Chocolate Panna Cotta … simple pleasures of life

This Dark Chocolate Panna Cotta recipe post is somewhat  special for me and I’ll just tell you why! Other than the dessert being drop dead delicious of course, the recipe share on my blog comes along as I struggle to feed my hungry blog. I’ve been traveling a bit of late, and sometimes things get too hectic. In the midst of all that the poor blog suffers.There was a time where if we had broadband network issues, I’d throw a royal fit, mope for hours and nothing at all would get done. I wouldn’t even feel like shooting the dessert I created because what was the point anyway thoughts ran through my head. All that’s now history and it’s thankfully been that way for a while. Honestly, once you get used to a good or rather a great network, life seems SO EASY! Of course it’s not a great idea to get addicted to the net, but if your work revolves around it, you need certain comfort levels that are assured, and my Airtel 4G network does more than that!Hmmm where do I begin? It’s to strange that when you begin thinking about how basics we take for granted make life so much better, it surprises you and how! Makes you think too! For something as simple as this blogpost, I wrote it up while sitting at the airport in Hyderabad a couple of nights ago. Just what I love about a dependable network. Transferred the images from my cell phone in seconds, and these are heavy files mind you. It was as easy as quick basic editing online, uploaded to the blog in seconds and I was good to go.The speed is great. I’ve used this network forever, and it just seems to get better and better. There’s no way I am changing it. In Hyderabad, I enjoyed snappy Airtel 4G speed, uploading stories non stop to my Instagram handle.And just a few days before Hyderabad, we visited Tanhau, a boutique resort in Ghweri, Uttarakhand. It was SO REMOTE that cell networks barely worked, yet even there I managed to download high res files from my wireless SD card to my cell, then shared them over wifi to stories on Instagram. A nice set of Tanhau Tales actually if you’d like to stop by and see the highlights on my Instagram handle!Being connected all the time has made my life simple and my work stress-free, leaving me so much time where it matters. Anyone who depends on connectivity and networks will know what I mean.I’ve made this recipe a couple of times already. It’s that good! Try it and tell me if you love it as much as I do! Why experiment when others have?

Food for thought? Choose your recipes wisely. And your mobile network too!

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Dark Chocolate Panna Cotta

Delicious, divine, sinful and silky, if you love a good panna cotta and chocolate is your flavour, then dive right in! This might just be the dessert you are looking for!
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 4 hours 20 minutes
Servings 6 people

Ingredients

  • 500 g single cream
  • 2 1/2 tsp gelatin
  • 125 ml whole milk
  • 120 g brown sugar
  • 150 g dark couverture chocolate 52%

Instructions

  • Sprinkle the gelatin over the warm milk and leave to soften.
  • Meanwhile, put the chocolate, cream and brown sugar into a heavy bottom pan, and simmer over gentle heat.
  • Stir the cream mixture and take off heat when small bubbles begin to appear around the edges at the bottom. Stir in the gelatin mix. Taste and adjust sugar if desired.
  • Allow to cool until lukewarm, then pass through sieve and pour into serving glasses/bowls.
  • Chill for at last 6-8 hours, better overnight.
  • You could pour unsweetened single cream on top for a colour variation, and berries if you like. Finish with a dusting of chocolate shavings. That's optional
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