Ingredients.
- 200g of fresh or frozen raspberries
- 75g icing/confectioners sugar
- 2 teaspoons of lemon juice
Bake Fest Friday - Something Sweet for the Weekend by Cherry Menlove
How to Make Raspberry Coulis – the most delicious summertime sauce
In a wee departure to our usual bake fest this week I’m showcasing a sweet sauce that you can put with just about anything. Raspberry coulis is a good thing to know how to make. It can be rustled up in a jiffy turning left-over fruits into something divine and goes well with all sorts of sweet treats from chocolate to meringue.
It can also be used to rescue something that has not turned out the way you wanted it to.
See that slice of coconut cake at the top?
That cake didn’t work out too well for us. It was far too sweet.
However, when we added the coulis it got a whole lot better. The tartness of the raspberries coupled with the lemon juice worked wonders with the coconut in the cake and made it so much more edible. If we had served cream or ice-cream with the cake I just know it would have been too sweet for most people & would have been something I would have simply scraped onto a plate and given to Robert the Husband.
Makes approximately 200ml of coulis, enough for six people to enjoy with a variety of desserts.
How you make it
Put the raspberries in to a blender*
Add the SIEVED sugar and the lemon juice
Whizz it all up and stick your finger in it to taste
Lick your finger and if you think it needs it add another teaspoon of lemon juice
Give it another whizz
Pour the coulis in to a sieve and push it through. This removes the raspberry seeds and makes it nice and smooth
Finally, pour the coulis in to a nice jug & serve with ice-cream, pavlova or even a summer pudding
*If you don’t have a blender then you can do this using a potato masher, fork and a whisk. It may take a wee bit longer but don’t be put off!!!
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On another note!
There’s an awful lot going on in these parts, which can occasionally cause a person to fall in to a narcoleptic type sleep while working. I’m re-launching my website in a week or so and I’m looking forward to showing it off. The forum is moving over to it, there are some brand new columns to be read and it all looks so clean and nice & fresh.
I also have some new creative & crafty projects on the go that perhaps you’ll like having a go at. They are specifically for the summertime and I’m going all out to keep us cosy in the sunshine.
Robert the Husband recently had quite a major operation on his foot. So apart from making fun of the silly ‘moon boot’ he had to wear on his foot for two weeks …….
.…I have not been able to ask him to do anything too ‘physical’ around the house. So far he’s only managed to re-tile the roof and build three raised beds (!!!!!!!, lazy) but he seems to be getting better. The crutches he has been hobbling around on have been thrown to the ground in a biblical like fashion and I’m getting the glint in my eye back.
“Robert, this weekend we are picking, picking, picking! I’m not telling you what we’re picking but we’re picking. And you WILL have fun!”
It’s around about this time that I get the look you see here. A look which tells me he’s wondering whether or not, after almost a year of marriage, he can get an annulment on the grounds of oddness!
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