White Chocolate & Summer Fruits Mousse

Perfect for having for pud after a romantic dinner this Valentine's weekend or maybe just because you like tasty treats! Try to split one if you can but best make two as you will be reluctant to share!

Ingredients

500g summer fruits
225g white chocolate
7g powdered gelatine
450ml double cream
2 tbsp lemon juice
30g icing sugar

Method to the Madness

Put three quarters of the fruit into a blender and whizz until smooth and pureed. Press through a sieve into a bowl to get rid of the pips.

Slice some of the remaining fruit and add to the puree and add the lemon juice.

Heat your white chocolate in a pan

In a small bowl add the gelatine to about 50ml of water and leave to stand for 5 minutes

Place a quarter of the cream along with all the icing sugar into a plan and simmer until warm. Add the gelatine water and stir for five minutes making sure the mixture doesnt boil.

Pour the mixture into the melted chocolate and stir until smooth before adding three quarters of the puree

Put the remaining cream in a bowl and whisk until peaks forrm.

Fold the cream into the chocolate and fruit mixture.

 Transfer the mixture into glasses and place in the fridge for a minimum of two hours but preferably overnight.

Add some of the remaining puree and grate some white chocolate over to serve.

Happy Valentine's Day all!

C x

Valentine's Day Gift Guide

Should you wish to buy your loved ones (or yourselves) a present this coming Valentine's Day I have a handy guide for boys and girls if you are stuck for ideas! Show the special people in your life how much you really love them with lots of stuff.

For the girls

1. Date Jar
2. Chloe Perfume
3. Jewelery Box
4. Leather gloves
5. Slate Coasters
6. Indoor Allotment
7. Bee Necklace
8. Clutch
9. Candle
10. Flowers
11. Selfie stick

For the boys

1. Scarf
2. Bracelets
3. Grooming kit
4. Hunters hip flask
5. Cufflinks
6. Smartphone projector
7. Robcop mug
8. iphone speaker
9. Remote controlled helicopter
10. Lap tray

C x

Just for you

Brighton Fun

If you are a reader of Miss Mint then you will have seen my Wanderlust post about mine and Leigh's day trip to Brighton.

However I took so many lovely pictures that I needed to share them all with you so there's going to be a bit of an overlap on posts but I hope you don't mind!

The day started bright and we headed down to Brighton, nearly missing our train as per usual. It doesn't matter how much time I leave we always have to rush for the train!

 

We like to share.....

Once in Brighton we went for breakfast at Bill's. I booked ahead and I'm glad I did because it was heaving by the time we left. We spent ages looking at all the jams and chutneys but in the end we decided to go for a Mango Chutney and it is delicious. When I get paid I'm definitely going to buy all of their stock!

After breakfast we went down to the pier managing to get caught in this crazy wind, rain, hail combo so we stayed in the arcade until it stopped and then went to the end of the pier to take some pictures of the choppy sea and sun dappled sky.

 

 

Next up we went and got some chips and had a walk along the beach in the sun before it started hailing again.

We ran up to the station to get the train to Stamner House where we had booked Afternoon Tea. The place was gorgeous and we pigged out on quite a bit of food which given how much we had already eaten was quite a challenge.

After tea we headed back to London! 

This is definitely the shorter version of the day trip if you want to read the full blown account then head over here and give some of my other blog posts a read too. 

Happy Valentines kids! 

Cara x