Celebrate the warmer months with this tropical dessert recipe from the HostCo menu. We've served it both as a regular dessert and a canape sized dessert at our events by changing the size of the glasses we use to plate. Depending on what glassware you have available, a stemless wine glass will make the perfect size for the full size dessert and a shot glass works well for canape size.

Mango Panna Cotta, lime rum jelly, shortbread, strawberry, mint (gf)

Serves 10

Ingredients

Mango Panna Cotta

330ml Double Cream

330ml Mango Puree

330ml Milk

90g Sugar

3 Titanium Gelatine Sheets

Lime Rum Jelly

125ml Rum

100ml Lime Juice

175ml Water

5 Titanium Gelatine Sheets

Macerated Strawberries

250g Strawberries

1tsp Icing Sugar

Sweet Soil Crumb

150g Sugar

150g Almond Meal

75g Potato Flour

5-7g Salt

65g Melted Butter

Chef Tip: Gelatine needs two things to work, time and temperature. So making this dessert a day in advance is key!

Instructions

Mango Panna Cotta

1. Soak gelatine sheets in cold water. Chef Tip: Gelatine comes in different shapes and forms, (Titanium & Gold sheets or Powdered). If Titanium sheets aren't available, it can be substituted with the other forms. 1 Titanium Sheet = 3 Gold Sheets = 7gm Powdered. So, for this recipe it would be (15 Gold Sheets or 35gm Powdered Gelatine)
2. Mix Cream, sugar and mango puree together in a pot and bring up to a warm temperature. Mix thoroughly until all sugar is dissolved. Once warm, take off the heat. Chef Tip: If mango puree isn’t available, tinned mango cheeks can be used as a substitute.
3. Drain gelatine, and dissolve into the mixture. Once completely dissolved, now add the cold milk. (Adding the milk cold regulates the temperature in the pot so the cream and mango puree doesn’t split)
4. Pour into glasses and set in the fridge.

Lime Rum Jelly

1. Soak Gelatine Sheets in cold water
2. Warm up water and dissolve the gelatine sheets in it. Then add the rum and lime into the mix, once slightly cooled. Chef Tip: To keep citrus tasting like its natural taste, keep it away from heat.
3. Slowly pour the jelly on top of the set panna cotta, make sure to only add it on when the jelly mixture is room temperature or cooler.

Macerated Strawberries

1. Dice strawberries and lightly dust it with icing sugar.

Sweet Soil Crumb

1. Mix all ingredients together and bake in an oven at 160c for 15 mins, don't use fan bake as it will cause the crumb to fly off the baking sheet. Keep mixing the crumb every 5 mins until golden brown.

Plating

1. To show off the layers of the dish, set the dessert in a clear glass.
2. When placing the crumb, only fill the middle of the glass to see the contrast of colours from bottom to top.
3. We used lemon balm in this platting, but the finishing touch can be changed to edible flowers for a more summer look.