Top o’ the morning to ya!
Were you mint-ed out with all the St. Patrick’s Day Recipes?
Hope not, because I have one more to share!
Yesterday’s special dessert: a fudge-mint parfait. (Yes, today is St. Patrick’s Day, but I had to make it early so I could blog about it before St. Paddy’s Day is over!)
Vegan cream, spelt flakes, and Chocolate-Fudge Frosting.
Like St. Patrick’s Day in a parfait glass.
(St. Patrick’s Day goes French??)
Soy-Free Peppermint Cream
(Makes 1 1/2 cups: one Katie-sized serving!)
- 5 tiny drops pure peppermint extract
- sweetener of choice
- 1/16th tsp salt
- scant 2 1/2 T water (20g)
- 1/2 serving agar base (recipe linked below)
- 3 drops coconut extract (Optional, but highly recommended)
- Optional (for green hue) handful spinach (I used frozen) (You could use green food coloring. Or opt to keep the cream white, like candy-cane cream!)
Instructions: First, make up the agar base. When the base is cooled, put half of it in a blender (or Magic Bullet) with all the other ingredients and blend away. Whip very well. I like to put it in the freezer for a few minutes prior to eating, so it’s super-cold.
See original whipped-cream post for Nutrition Facts.
I’m really lovin’ this holiday-parfait thing. Other holiday parfaits so far:
I’m thinking, for Easter, a carrot-cake parfait is a must. Carrots, raisins, walnuts… delicious ideas are already spinning. (Oh, and in case you were wondering, I totally upped the saturation of that green cream. It did not look as pretty when I ate it!)
When you eat:
What’s most important: looks or taste?
Do you like to make your meals look pretty, using fancy plates and garnishes? Or do you just throw things together and not care about the appearance, as long as it tastes yummy? I do a little of both. Sometimes, I’m in the mood to be fancy-schmancy. But at other times–especially when I’m in a rush–prettiness just goes out the window.
Same if I’m eating a food that can’t look pretty, like my No-Cream Cream of Broccoli Soup.
Taste is much more important than looks, but pretty food definitely is more tempting.
I haven’t treated myself to a parfait in quite sometime! 🙂 I think it might be time! 😉
Yum!
Happy St. Patty’s Day!!!
😀
Aly
Taste for sure. Obviously I am more inclined to want to eat something that looks good to but so long as it tastes good it could look shocking and I’d till eat it 🙂
Especially good since I’m not fab on presentation. I can cook well – it just never seems to turn out looking as pretty as it should. I’m attempting your cookie dough baked oatmeal on Saturday morning (my eldest sons birthday breakfast 🙂 ) so I’m interested to see how much worse looking than yours they turn out hehe
I think as long as it has chocolate chips, there’s no way it can be ugly! Chocolate just makes everything pretty :).
I think that a food’s taste is more important!
As my grandfather used to say:
“It doesn’t matter what it tastes like, as long as its sweet!!” 😀
Your green parfait looks delicious!! I am way more concerned with how my food tastes, and I could pretty much care less how it looks. Some of my dinners look like (and ARE) thrown together messes, but if they taste good I’m happy 🙂
I vote taste. BUT, as a relatively new blogger, I am discovering the importance of making something look pretty. And it is kinda fun and fancy to garnish food just for the pretty factor. 🙂
You went all out this St. Paddy’s Day! Very impressive dessert.
Ooh this looks lovely, theres no real such thing as parfait in the Uk 🙁 wish it was more readily available, yours looks yummy!
It’s all about taste, luckily as my food always looks a bit dodgy! but yours always looks good, and looks like it tastes good (if that makes sense!)
Your food is almost too pretty to eat!
taste, without a doubt; i love food, i’m not sure what it’s called when one love it as much as i do, but i love eating even more, especially food i like. it’s what i have to look forward to each day.
Taste all the way.
looks are important (especially for blogging purposes)…no one wants to look at messy, runny, gloppy, “gross” looking food…
But sometimes that’s the kind of food that tastes the best 🙂 It may not photograph well, but it sure tastes well.
Taste trumps looks b/c if it tastes bad, I am NOT eating more than 1 bite, no matter how pretty it is 🙂
Yes, I think a carrot cake parfait sounds just amaaazzzinnnggg. Please do one! Pleaasseeeee 😀 I usually make a meal just the way a recipe says, but if it’s a special occasion, or if I’m feeling fancy, I may sprinkle on some parsley, or coconut..or what have you 😉 So long as my food tastes yummy then I could give a rats butt how it looks!
haha you have so many parfaits!! the pumpkin one looks really good Katie! Pumpkin never gets old~ <3
Taste is definitely the most important. Sometimes the ugliest things taste the best! It’s our taste buds, not our eyes that will be ulitimately be experiencing the food anyway.
HAPPY ST PATRICK’S DAY my lovely Irish friend!! You are a genius and that parfait looks to DIE for!! My food is ugly most of the time, but adding chocolate chips beautifies anything in my opinion!! 😛
And although I haven’t had time to make anything green, I am celebrating still!! I’m eating broccoli right now and am having your naughty girl fudge for dessert!! That fits cos YOU are Irish so it counts, right? 😉
Chocolate fuge cake ALWAYS counts. I don’t care what flavor it is. It counts! But gosh, girl, we should’ve made mint chocolate fudge, huh? 😉
I totally WOULD have done but I have no peppermint extract!! 🙁 I need some STAT!!
Oh yes you do! I wish I could personally deliver you some. Hey, maybe some day I will! 😉