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5 Cheap And Gourmet Desserts

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If you’ve truly upped the frugal stakes, chances are dinners out at expensive restaurants where you order three courses and the cheese plate are not so common any more. I like to sneak the occasional outing (and more than the occasional cheese plate) but eating out is an easy cost to save money on, so a lot of people are making the shift. But does that mean you have to lose out on the quality of food you eat? Not in the slightest. You can be eating gourmet desserts made cheaply and healthily at home. Here are 5 of my favourites.

Poached Pears

The thing about poached pears is that you can really do any style that you feel like, depending on your meal and sweet tooth on the day. I like to put a bit of sherry, water, honey, cinnamon and cloves in a pan, heat it to boiling point and then let the pears simmer in it until they are super soft. Serve with natural yoghurt or creme fraiche. Other alternatives can be to use red wine or jams in your poaching liquid.

Bread And Butter Pudding

Think this staple of your granny’s isn’t gourmet? Have a quick look at some dessert menus out there and think again. To add the gourmet touch to the basic (bread, buttered, covered in eggs and milk) add white chocolate and serve with a fruit compote or raspberry coulis. It’s a great dessert to bust out if you’ve got half a loaf of old bread to get rid of and is still one of my favourite all-time desserts.

Trifle

Another formerly daggy dessert making quite the gourmet comeback. Use day-old madeira cake or sponge fingers. If you want to get truly gourmet, scare up some amaretti biscuits. Line the cake layer with jam or a raspberry coulis, before adding jelly and a layer of custard and repeating. Top with loads of berries and toasted slivered almonds.

Chocolate Dipped Strawberries

There is really no more to this recipe than you would guess from the name, and people love it. Some cooks like to double dip- as in, dip once in white chocolate, the second time in dark- but it’s totally up to you. Buy some relatively good chocolate to melt, and the world is your oyster.

Baked Apple

Hollow out an apple, including the skin. Bake for around 45 minutes. Stuff it with whatever dried fruits you have hanging around, plus some honey, cinnamon and lemon zest, and a bit of water, which you’ve had simmering on the stove. Delish.


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