TONY STAPLES: Let the sunshine in with this pina colada mousse
I got the idea for this pina colada mousse when we were preparing cocktails for a photo shoot in the hotel recently. It was a cold, grey day, but the flavours of the drink brought memories of beach holidays flooding back.
So, I thought why not bring that holiday vibe to our dessert menu? The mousse tastes exactly like a pina colada cocktail and is delicious eaten with Jamaican ginger cake, which you can buy from most supermarkets, and boozy preserved pineapple.
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Pina Colada Mousse with Boozy Pineapple
Serves two large portions
2 leaves of gelatine
200ml double cream
25ml Malibu or any coconut rum
50g icing sugar
75ml pineapple juice
For the boozy pineapple:
a fresh pineapple, cubed
200g caster sugar
200ml Malibu or coconut rum
100ml water
Few tablespoons of caster sugar for dipping the pineapple
Jamaican ginger cake to serve
Method
First, soak the gelatine in cold water.
Put the pineapple juice and soaked gelatine into a small saucepan and gently heat until the gelatine has dissolved. Leave to cool.
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Sift the icing sugar and fold into the whipped cream. Then fold this mixture into the cooled gelatine pineapple mix.
Pour into a dish and leave to set for three hours in a fridge, overnight if possible.
For the boozy pineapple, put the water and granulated sugar into a small saucepan and heat until the sugar dissolves. Leave to cool, then stir in the Malibu.
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To serve, put scoops of the mousse onto a plate with wedges of ginger cake and decorate with the boozy pineapple.
Chef’s tip
The boozy pineapple will keep for a couple of weeks in an airtight container and is delicious over ice cream.
Warm the ginger cake for a few seconds in the microwave before serving.
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