{"id":678,"date":"2015-01-28T10:58:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T10:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/?p=678"},"modified":"2015-01-30T10:40:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T10:40:35","slug":"making-valentiness-desert-just-got-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/making-valentiness-desert-just-got-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Valentines\u2019s desert just got easier!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Valentines-Recip2e-Chocolate-and-mixed-berry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-680\" alt=\"Valentines Recip2e - Chocolate and mixed berry\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Valentines-Recip2e-Chocolate-and-mixed-berry-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Valentines-Recip2e-Chocolate-and-mixed-berry-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Valentines-Recip2e-Chocolate-and-mixed-berry-767x1024.jpg 767w, http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Valentines-Recip2e-Chocolate-and-mixed-berry-624x832.jpg 624w, http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Valentines-Recip2e-Chocolate-and-mixed-berry.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pressure of cooking a magnificent Valentines Day meal can be extremely daunting for some, but Granny Mouse Country House &amp; Spa is here to make things simple. Chef Shaun Dampies has come to the rescue, offering a chocolcate and mixed berry tower that will not only impress, but will make you looking like a professional chef!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Chocolate and mixed berry tower <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>1pk Oreo biscuits<\/p>\n<p>200g milk Chocolate<\/p>\n<p>250ml Whipped cream<\/p>\n<p>1 can Caramel treat<\/p>\n<p>200g Cream cheese<\/p>\n<p>1pk Short bread Biscuits<\/p>\n<p>350g Mixed berries<\/p>\n<p>30ml Balsamic vinegar<\/p>\n<p>50g sugar<\/p>\n<p>20g icing sugar<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Method:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To make the Oreo crumb, remove the biscuit outer sections, leaving behind the centre. Using a rolling pin, roll over the biscuit, reducing it to crumbs<\/p>\n<p>Melt the chocolate and add the cream.<\/p>\n<p>Once cooled down place in a squeeze bottle<\/p>\n<p>Take the cream and whip until almost stiff.<\/p>\n<p>Add in the icing sugar for sweetness and continue whipping until stiff\u00a0 and fluffy<\/p>\n<p>Place into a piping bag<\/p>\n<p>Take the caramel treat and fold in the cream cheese. This will reduce the sweetness, but still keep the colour and richness and consistency of the toffee<\/p>\n<p>Take some short bread biscuits and using a rolling pin, crush the biscuits to make a crumb<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a sauce pan place 300g of the mixed berries, cover with water; add some sugar and balsamic vinegar, cook until berries start releasing its natural juices, blend the mix and strain, removing the pulp from the liquid.<\/p>\n<p>Place the liquid back into the pot and continue to reduce until the liquid starts to thicken up<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Presentation:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>In the sexiest glass you have, drizzle some chocolate sauce in it which will give it that melted look<\/p>\n<p>At the bottom of the glass add in the Oreo crumbs<\/p>\n<p>Add in the toffee and cream cheese mousse and keep layering it with crumbs and mix<\/p>\n<p>Once the glass is almost full, pipe in the cream and then the berry coulis \/syrup so that it will run through the shape of the cream, and finish off with a last layer of toffee mousse<\/p>\n<p>Add the remainder of the 50g mixed berries, garnish with basil leaves and a sprinkle of biscuit crumbs<\/p>\n<p>Serve and enjoy !!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pressure of cooking a magnificent Valentines Day meal can be extremely daunting for some, but Granny Mouse Country House &amp; Spa is here to make things simple. Chef Shaun Dampies has come to the rescue, offering a chocolcate and mixed berry tower that will not only impress, but will make you looking like a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goldfishcommunications.co.za\/a\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}