Chocolate exotic fruit combo
Chocolate brownie with white chocolate mousse, mango cheesecake and strawberry sorbet. A sweet Villa Sandi makes the Perfect Partner
Ingredients
Chocolate Brownie
- 250g chocolate
- 200g butter
- 5 eggs
- 225g sugar
- 50g flour
- 1 vanilla pod
- Pinch salt
White Chocolate Mousse
- 100ml milk
- 150g white Chocolate
- 100g fresh cream
- 3g gelatine leaf
Mango Cheese Cake
- ½ diced mango
- 200g cream cheese
- 2 eggs
- 50g fresh cream
- 1 orange zest
- 20g sugar
- 100g biscuit crumbs
- 40g melted butter
Strawberry sorbet
- 200g fresh strawberries
- 50g sugar
- 10g glucose
- 75ml water
Method
Chocolate Brownie
- Melt the chocolate and butter on Bain Marie.
- Whisk the sugar and eggs together.
- Mix the egg mixture with the chocolate mixture.
- Mix in the flour, vanilla pod and salt.
- Bake for 15 minutes – 170°C.
White Chocolate Mousse
- Soak the gelatine leaf in iced water.
- Boil the milk.
- Melt the chocolate and gelatine leaf in the milk.
- Beat the cream.
- Hold in the chocolate mixture in cream.
- Pour over the brownie and let it set.
Mango Cheese Cake
- Mix the biscuit crumbs and melted butter tighter to form the base of the cheese cake.
- Bake for 10 minutes - 150°C.
- Beat the cream cheese, eggs, fresh cream, orange zest and sugar.
- Pour over the baked base.
- Bake for 45 minutes - 120°C.
- Melt some butter and sugar.
- Toss in the diced mango.
- Add in a tot of brandy.
- Cook till mango turns soft.
Strawberry Sorbet
- Bring everything to the boil.
- Blend everything together.
- Churn in an ice-cream maker
Sponsored by Villa sandi MARINALI BIANCO IGT Treviso 2013
Vine: Manzoni Bianco Grape variety: Incrocio Manzoni. Production area: Villa Sandi Estate with deep clayey soil rich in subsoil. Alcohol content: 13,5% vol. Colour: straw yellow. Bouquet: fruity with hints of exotic fruit like pineapple, mediterranean spices, almond and hazelnut. Flavour: a decisive flavour,fruity and spicy. Serving temperature: 8-10°C