plum-cinnamon gelato with rum - caramelized pecan nut gelato

While it's getting cold in Germany and it's freezing in the night, I started with frozen desserts :)

It's not so easy to get proper ingredients for gelato and to find some heavy cream is like looking for snow in the desert. So I had to be creative - and I think I was successful.

My first two different varieties are "plum-cinnamon with rum" and "caramelized pecan nuts".

Plum Cake with a sour cream - vanilla topping

I got big semi sour plums in Spanish Lookout and decided to buy some pounds of them.
One part I used for a plum jam and the other part was for a cake.

I baked a plum cake with yeast dough, covered with a sour cream-vanilla mixture. The original recipe asks for a heavy sour creme, but I could not get it here. So I added a little bit of creme cheese in the mixture.

At the time unfortunately I only have a gas oven which heats only from underneath. So the bottom of the cake becomes very dark until the topping is firm.


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Plum Pie with Streusel

For some German recipes it's inevitable to have some sourly tasting fruits.

To find them somewhere is really a big challange.

I was so glad when I got some little plums at FTC. One portion I used for the mango jam and the other portion was just enough to bake a plum-pie with streusel (I was surprised to learn that this word is used in the English language as well).

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Jam-Session ;)

It's "Mango-Time" in Belize.

You can get the most delicious, tasty and yummy mangos at the market... and of course at our friends place.
They have a huge mango tree and asked me if I wanted to have some.
In this case "some" meant a huge bucket full of mangos.

Because we couldn't eat them all I made jam.

I combined one portion with the lychees...

...and another with little plums.




And tomorrow I gonna make mango chutney.



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