Best Summer Desserts for Your Loved Ones
There is hardly anyone who doesn’t like summer. Sunny and warm summer is always fun. It’is a time of family holidays and picnics, get-togethers with friends, pool parties, and BBQs in the backyard. In addition, it’s a time of seasonal fruit when you have a great chance to enjoy a whole myriad of delicious summer desserts and drinks. You can find a whole bunch of ideas from decadent cheesecakes and tarts to fresh fruit pies to a variety of compotes and an array of ice cream recipes. Many of those sweet delicacies are very easy to cook at home and you can find perfect summer desserts to impress all your loved ones with some special treats customized to their individual tastes.
Frozen Dainties
On hot summer days, everybody craves for some chill and sometimes, it would be nice to have something more than a glass of cold water or a coke from the fridge. This is where chilling frozen desserts come in.
Think ice cubes from the ice maker are good only for cocktails? Fruit slushies offer another tasty alternative for using ice.Take several cups of fresh juicy seasonal fruit and berries, some honey to your taste, a cup of ice cubes or more to achieve the consistency you want, and blend all ingredients in a powerful blender. The most popular fruit for slushies are strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, pineapple, mango, melon, and watermelon. To experiment with tastes, to can mix fruit, add some mint, syrups, lime, lemon or orange juice or even some rum, brandy or bourbon.
Another refreshing fruit delicacy most eaters would like is a sorbet. Making this is a real snap. No specific appliances are needed,onlys some cut frozen fruit and a blender. Cut you favorite fruit to pieces and freeze it until solid. Puree frozen fruit with some lemon or orange juice in a food processor or countertop blender until you get smooth texture and use an ice cream scoop to make uniform nice-looking sorbet balls. Before blending, you can add some yogurt instead of juice to get a creamy taste, mix in basil, mint, coconut, ginger, honey, almond, vanilla or chocolate syrup.
Kid’s Favorites
Many kids are reluctant about eating fresh fruit. Yet, every single kid adores ice cream. Here is a compromise! Combine those two ingredients to make a yummy dessert no little one will refuse. The most simple way is to take vanilla ice cream, let it melt a bit, blend in fresh fruit or berries or a mix of both, and freeze the mixture back again. You can serve this fruit ice cream in waffle scones or in a dessert bowl dressed with cherry, currant, orange, caramel or chocolate sauce and relished with nuts, jellies, and whipped cream. Following the same strategy, you can blend yogurt with fruit and some honey or sweet syrup of your choice. Pour the blend in small paper cups, put sticks into it, and freeze until solid to get delicious and tasty yogurt pops all children will love.
Waist-Friendly Treats
For those who follow healthy eating principles or stick to some diet to lose weight, fruit are a part and parcel of a daily menu. Bright and flavorful, fruit are already a perfect dessert even when served plain. However, sometimes, a handful of strawberries or even a sliced pineapple is not enough to satisfy your inner sweet tooth. Luckily, there are great many low-calorie summer desserts a diet follower can eat without any guilt. A skinny pumpkin cake, baked apples, no-sugar fruit sorbets, pear and peach crisps, fruit compotes and puddings, oatmeal cookies, numerous crumbles, light pies, and more.
All chocoholics on a diet would rave about a whipped chocolate mousse. Put 4 ounces of bittersweet chocolate in a large heat resistant bowl. In another bowl, mix a tablespoon of cornstarch and non-sweet cocoa with 2 tablespoons of sugar and a cup of light milk. Warm the mixture until simmering and pour it over chocolate. While the chocolate is melting beat 4 egg whites with a pinch of salt. Stir the chocolate mixture until smooth and gently mix in egg whites suing a rubber spatula. Apportion the mousse into small glasses and let it cool in the fridge within an hour. Garnish it with raspberries and shaved chocolate chops and enjoy.
