Bastelesel

Simple but exquisite and this dessert will surely catch your guests’ eyes. It’s consisting of mascarpone, curd cheese, yoghurt, some rasped chocolate, a dash of lemon juice and a tablespoon of honey to sweeten it. The quantity of mascarpone decides the stability of your dessert. I took curd cheese and mascarpone in equal parts and only 1-2 tablespoons of yoghurt making the whole cream a bit softer. Place the wafer-thin strawberry slices at the inside of your dessert ring and pour in your cream. If you don’t have a dessert ring for every portion you want to make let the cream rest a moment before lifting the used ring. Clean the inside and make the next dessert.
In the center I decorated mine with a small entire strawberry, a mint leaf and a chocolate ball filled with mint. The remaining berries were also cut into thin slices and placed on the plates with further mint balls.

shown as decoration today. We can already buy them, strawberries grown on our home soil. They’re still rather expensive and so we must be happy with two or three of these wonderful fruit decorating a dessert, a drink or a cake. The strawberry on the left is cut into thin slices stopping shortly before its green. The slices in the middle are placed like the leaves of a flower. They’re staggered in two layers and a small tip of an entire berry makes the center of the star or flower. Down on the right strawberry slices are speared with mint leaves. They’re very good with yoghurt or curd cheese desserts. If you take entire or half fruits the spears can be clipped into a glass of champagne. That looks really nice and you’ll enjoy the refreshing drink.