No bake | Coffee White Chocolate Panna Cotta … ♥ indulgent ♥ indulgent ♥ indulgent ♥ #eggless #dessert #coffee
“It doesn’t matter where you’re from – or how you feel.
There’s always peace in a strong cup of coffee.”
Gabriel Bá
Coffee White Chocolate Panna Cotta, time for an indulgent dessert that screams coffee! It’s been a busy few days, or maybe weeks. A lot happening on every possible front which barely leaves me time to blog. Sometimes I fall into a guilt trap for starving the poor hungry PAB, so I figured the sweet coffee indulgence should be a nice way to offload my guilt. This dessert rocked, the flavours of local Bru shone through, the taste nice and mature after an overnight chill! For those who know me, coffee is my first choice in dessert. 
Of course it’s another matter that I was in Bangalore a couple of days ago styling tea for a shoot; tea that was almost too pretty to brew!!
Panna cotta has been in the news at home of late for all sorts of reasons. Good because this was an experiment that rocked, and one that I have made several times over. Made it most recently for my friends from the Swiss Made Grand Tour crew who visited last week. Bad because it was part of a plagiarism row that hit our small local food bloggers community. A similar panna cotta recipe, Espresso Panna Cotta, from PAB was one of many to be ‘copy pasted‘ verbatim! We live and learn, and hopefully ‘the copiers’ will too!
Moving on, it’s also a panna cotta coz I’m happy; happy about a media mention that The Asian Entrepreneur carried about me yesterday. It was quite a fun interview and I am eternally grateful to them for offering me such a wonderful platform.
This calls for a cuppa coffee!!
[print_this]Recipe: Coffee White Chocolate Panna Cotta
Summary: Indulgent, indulgent, indulgent. If you are a coffee lover, then this Coffee White Chocolate Panna Cotta is the dessert with you. The addition of good quality white chocolate adds depth and body to the dessert. Serves 6
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes {plus chilling time}
Ingredients:
- 65g good quality white couverture chocolate, chopped
- 400ml single cream {Amul low fat}
- 100g brown sugar
- 2tbsp instant coffee {Bru}
- 100ml warm milk
- 2tsp gelatin
Method:
- Sprinkle the gelatin over the warm milk and leave to soften.
- Meanwhile, put the white chocolate, cream, brown sugar and coffee into a heavy bottom pan, and simmer over gentle heat.
- Stir the cream mixture and take off heat when small bubbles begin to appear around the edges at the bottom. Stir in the gelatin mix. Taste and adjust sugar if desired.
- Allow to cool until lukewarm, then pass through sieve and pour into serving glasses/bowls.
- Chill for at last 6-8 hours, better overnight.
Note: Top with a dark chocolate ganache for added indulgence. Or skip the coffee and add any flavour you like, then top with seasonal fruit or a fruit coulis.
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About me: I am a freelance food writer, recipe developer and photographer. Food is my passion - baking, cooking, developing recipes, making recipes healthier, using fresh seasonal produce and local products, keeping a check on my carbon footprint and being a responsible foodie! I enjoy food styling, food photography, recipe development and product reviews. I express this through my food photographs which I style and the recipes I blog. My strength lies in 'Doing Food From Scratch'; it must taste as good as it looks, and be healthy too. Baking in India, often my biggest challenge is the non-availability of baking ingredients, and this has now become a platform to get creative on. I enjoy cooking immensely as well.
9 Comments
Meena Kumar
Love the way u have tied the coffee and chocolate into your comfort zone. Loving the black coffee boiler too. Saw ur Swiss pics I guess it was 10 days of fun. Did not see any loot from there on FB 🙂 Looking forward to seeing more trip pics thru ur eyes. Congrats for the right attention and others let go.
Deeba @ PAB
Thank you Meenu. No loot from there at all. We were driving through the country and shooting all day long. Didn’t see any shops. There was no time at all.
Sasha
This looks lovely and as a coffee-lover, a must-try!
The props, the photos….everything looks mesmerizing!
Your energy to accomplish so much while balancing life as a wife
and a mother, your attention to details, your penchant for perfection:
you never cease to amaze me! Thank you for all that you do.
PS:
While you’ve tagged this as ‘eggless’, it should be noted that gelatin isn’t considered ‘vegetarian’.
A truly vegetarian option would be to try it with agar agar 🙂
Deeba @ PAB
Thank you Sasha. I’ve tagged it eggless for people who might be allergic to eggs. I have not tagged it vegetarian since I know the origin of gelatin
Sasha
This looks lovely and as a coffee-lover, a must-try!
The props, the photos….everything looks mesmerizing!
Your energy to accomplish so much while balancing life as a wife
and a mother, your attention to details, your penchant for perfection:
you never cease to amaze me! Thank you for all that you do.
PS:
While you’ve tagged this as ‘eggless’, it should be noted that gelatin isn’t considered ‘vegetarian’.
A truly vegetarian option would be to try it with agar agar 🙂
Medeja
Looks amazing, I am sure it tasted heavenly!
Rosa
Heavenly! Two of my favorite things…
Cheers,
Rosa
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For coffee lover its amazing…thanks to share this recipe.
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