Preparation notes
Valentine’s Eton Mess
Makes 2 plates
Preparation time: 1 hour + further time to set
Baking time : 1 hour
MERINGUE
30g diminished aquafaba or potato protein
60g golden caster sugar
Vegan pleasant purple meals color
Technique
1. Preheat the oven to 100°C /fuel mark ¼.
Line a big baking tray with parchment paper or a silicone mat.
2. In a perfctly clear bowl, whisk the diminished aquafaba with the meals color till it reaches
tender peaks. Slowly add the sugar and proceed to whisk till stiff peaks.
3. Pour the meringue in a piping bag with a plain nozzle 10mm diam. and pipe coronary heart shapes about 4cm, leaving a distance of 2cm no less than between every coronary heart.
4. Place on a baking tray and bake till the meringues are utterly onerous and are available off the paper or the mat simply. The baking time might be about 45-60 min.
5. Permit them to chill down for about 10 minutes earlier than taking off the tray.
STRAWBERRY JELLY,
100g vegan strawberry jelly
¼ tsp agar agar powder
Technique
1. Switch the vegan strawberry jelly in a saucepan, add the agar powder and produce to the boil, whisking repeatedly.
2. Pre-line a baking tray 13 x 20cm with cling movie and delicately pour the jelly, 2mm thick.
3. Let it set within the fridge. Utilizing varied “Valentines “cutters, reduce coronary heart, lips …shapes, no matter you fancy.
COCONUT CREAM
1 can coconut milk FULL FAT
2 Tbsp corn syrup
1 tsp vanilla extract
non-compulsory : &12; tsp agar agar powder
Technique
1. Chill the coconut milk within the fridge in a single day.
2. After all through chilling, ideally in a single day, the coconut cream will solidify and separate from the milk. Scoop out the coconut cream, switch to a bowl.
3. Add the corn syrup , vanilla extract, and beat till you attain a clean and fluffy consistency.
For moulded whipped cream, it is suggested so as to add some agar agar combine to make sure the soundness of the cream : dissolve 1 tsp agar agar powder in 240g water and produce to the boil, whisking repeatedly. Pour over the coconut cream and whisk till you get a homogeneous texture.
Fill some small spherical or pyramid silicone moulds and switch to the freezer.
5. PRESENTATION
Comply with your inspiration to rearrange the totally different components on the plate, together with some contemporary strawberries. A contact of inexperienced leaf will all the time be welcome!
Recipe from Chef Danielle Maupertuis the founding father of Free From Desserts the UKs main vegan government pastry chef – she is an writer, presenter in addition to a coach for The Vegetarian Society
