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Preparation info
  • Serves

    8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Dessert Divas

By Christine Manfield

Published 2014

  • About

The idea for this dessert came from a cocktail I like that combines vodka, Aperol and fresh mandarin juice, muddled over ice. Cold weather yields a bounty of citrus fruit, which provide a perfect foil for sugar in dessert work. Mandarins are such a lovely fruit and I like to make good use of their lively fresh juice during winter. In this dessert, their gentle acidity and tangy sharp flavours juxtapose with the underlying mild sweetness and herbaceous bitterness of the Aperol to create cont