Contributions – Audrey's 74 A blog by Giulia Doyle Tue, 31 Jan 2017 21:28:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.16 Cardamom Plum Trifle and Style Me Pretty Living /2013/12/13/cardamom-plum-trifle-and-style-me-pretty-living/ Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:47:40 +0000 http://www.audrey74.com/?p=2347 Cardamom Plum Trifle Audrey's SMP Living

Another dessert this week! What’s going on? Well, today, I’m super excited to share my newest contribution. I created this Cardamom Plum Trifle for Style Me Pretty Living – the beautiful lifestyle blog. I’m so excited to be working with this amazing group. I love their content and their aesthetic and living spin-off is perfect for daily inspiration.

This recipe is super easy to make – you can use store bought ingredients or if you have a little extra time, go ahead and make the cake and pudding from scratch. Served in single serve portions, this makes a perfect holiday dessert. Don’t those pomegranates look like perfect little jewels? Enjoy!

Cardamom Plum Trifle with Pistachios and Pomegranate

Prep Time: 40 minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes

Yield: Serves 8

Ingredients

  • 8-10 purple plums
  • 1/4 cup of sugar
  • 2 pods of cardamom
  • 1 1/2 cups of your favorite vanilla pudding or custard.
  • 2 cups of cubed yellow cake. (I used leftover cake I had in the freezer. You can use store bought loaf cake.)
  • 1 cup of whipping cream
  • 2 tablespoons of sugar
  • 1/4 cup of crushed pistachios
  • 8 whole pistachios, peeled
  • 2 tablespoons of pomegranate seeds

Instructions

  1. Cut plums into quarters and add to small saucepan. Add sugar, cardamom pods and a splash of water. Bring to a boil, then turn down heat and let simmer until plums are soft and break apart. Take off heat, let cool and remove cardamom pods.
  2. Fill 8 glasses with 1/4 cup of vanilla custard/pudding. Top each one with a couple of cubes of cake, distributing nicely so cake pieces are seen around the glass.
  3. Once plums are cooled, spoon 2-3 tablespoons of plums on top of pudding and cake.
  4. Sprinkle each glass with 2 teaspoons of crushed pistachios.
  5. Whip your cream with the sugar. You can do this with a mixer, but whipping by hand will give you nicer whipped cream.
  6. Gently top each glass with whipped cream.
  7. Sprinkle with pomegranate seeds and one pistachio nut.
  8. Serve immediately!
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Spring Greens with Audrey’s and Sister Mag /2013/05/13/sprint-greens-with-audreys-and-sister-mag/ Mon, 13 May 2013 10:44:01 +0000 http://www.audrey74.com/?p=799 Audrey's Sister MagI jumped at the chance to work with SisterMag. Way back, in the midst of winter, Thea and I were discussing how we could bring my previous collectible colour column to life with food. Spring Greens popped into my head and I started to make a long list of recipes that are green and relate a bit to spring. Since we live on different continents – what’s in season in Germany isn’t necessarily in season in Canada – but you get where we were going with this, right?Audrey's - SisterMag-Giulia DoyleThis is the first shoot I’ve done for a publication, and I am amazed by how a photo shot by me looks when it’s integrated into a magazine spread. I’m pleased that my photos and recipes are part of this fabulous magazine. Didn’t Thea do an amazing job with the design?

Audrey's - SisterMag- GiuliaDoyleHead on over to the new issue of SisterMag to get the full spread of recipes on page 251. You’ll find recipes for green smoothies, pea hummus, asparagus tart, basil pesto and my simple shrimp tacos as well pages and pages of additional amazing content. Did I tell you that they publish SisterMag in both German and English? Congrats to Thea and Toni on another great issue of SisterMag!Audrey's - SisterMag- Giulia DoyleAudrey's SisterMag

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