Sexy Sundae- A Gorgeous Shade of Rouge

To me ice cream is the rite to rebellion. When I build a Sundae, I want to break all the rules. I want to build an imaginary world with gobs of colour and textures. A playground for the mind. A combination of ice cream flavours and chocolates and sauces and fresh fruits and crunchy nuts and sugar sculptures. I want to savour the soft texture of cream and surprise myself with the crunch of a brittle. I want a rainbow of colours - the pink next to the brown next to the red next to the orange. Soft pillowy clouds of bananas and a burnt earthiness of ginger snaps. I want the whole lusciousness of flavours flowing with rivers of sauce sprinkled with starry pieces of caramel bits- frozen. Slowly melting onto my hands, I dont care a lick but I go on. This is my rebellion with all my heart. Let me close my eyes and for a few minutes savour the last bite. 

As a third part of the series for 50 Shades of Plum, I made a rouge coloured plum sauce that held its own amongst chocolate and ice cream. 

INGREDIENTS

15 plums pitted and chopped into quarters

3 tbspn of sugar

vanilla essence

1 stick of cinnamon

MAKING THE PLUM SAUCE

1. In saucepan heat the plums with the sugar.
2. Throw in the piece of cinnamon
3. Add a dash of essence.
4. Blend the mixture into a smooth sauce
5. Chill in the fridge for a few days

Cut plums

Bring the plums, sugar and cinnamon to a boil. Add the vanilla essence to it

Blended sauce

To make the sugar brittles

INGREDIENTS

4 tbsp of sugar

peanuts roughly chopped

1 small pad of butter

MAKING THE PEANUT BRITTLE

1. Heat the sugar in a pan till it turns a golden brown
2. Add the pad of butter and stir. 
3. Lower the heat and add peanuts and mix
4. Pour the mixture on a Steel plate and let it cool down till it is crisp
5. Twist it off the plate and break into shards

Heat the sugar

Add the butter

Add the peanuts and pour thin on a steel plate and let it cool till it hardens completely

Assembling the sexy sundae

INGREDIENTS:

3 flavours of ice cream- vanilla, chocolate and strawberry

bananas sliced

ginger snaps powdered

plum sauce

chocolate

sugar and peanut brittle shards

Start with the plum sauce on the base

Layer with ginger snaps

Add the bananas

Add the different flavours of ice cream

Pour the plum sauce on the ice cream and 

Now create the sensual playful landscapes with shards of brittle and chocolate

Each bite of plum sauce swirls and mixes in with the ice cream with little surprises of brittle and chocolate

All gone

It cant get better than eating some sexy sundae with this gorgeous ballad by Guillemot. Does anyone remember this song from Gossip Girl when Blair asks Chuck what took him so long and he responds - if you thought this was long, you have no idea what you are in for...