Bing Chillin's Gelato Creations: Chocolate, Coffee and Hazelnut

As promised, we are back with a post on our 3 successful gelato flavors and they are: Chocolate, Coffee and Hazelnut.

Starting with chocolate, it's a flavor which failed us many times. A flavor that even an experienced ice-cream chef will tell you it's one of the most challenging to make because of the content of chocolate and the difficulty in balancing that with other components like sugar and milk. But we finally made a fairly decent one which wasn't powdery, not too sweet, had soft texture unlike some previous ones we made that turned out rock solid.

Then there's coffee, which was made with normal kopi 'O from the coffee shop mixed with milk and sugar and off to churn. Not bad at all, a little on the sweet side but smooth creamy texture as well.

Lastly, my personal favorite Hazelnut! I loved the intense hazelnut flavor, came out strongly even after the churning. The color was a pleasant shade of beige and a perfect enjoyment for both the sense of taste and smell. Hence of course that was the first flavor I attacked.

That's all for now. The Chillin team will be off to Taiwan tomorrow night for one week and we'll share our itinerary when we are back. And we look forward to sharing any interesting desserts we find there as well!

Inspired by Green Pumpkin

It was Chillin boy's mummy's birthday, so we bought a Berries-Passionfruit cake from Green Pumpkin and it's so pretty we almost couldn't bear to cut it.

We've bought cakes from Green Pumpkin before and the last time was for my dad. We all know how old folks are, they prefer a less sweet and less fattening option. Hence Green Pumpkin is a great choice, this little Japanese bakery believes in a concept of using no preservatives and additives and their bread and cake flavours are mainly fruits and as it's name speaks, pumpkins.

Here's a picture of the pumpkin cake we bought last year, unfortunately I couldn't find any pictures of the whole cake, only this which I've taken a bite out of...

Their cakes always taste fluffy and not too oily/buttery so you don't get the 'jelat' feeling after eating it, which is usually the problem with most cream cakes. So this is a great choice if you want to get something less sinful for the family to enjoy.

Very inspiring dessert indeed and the Chillin team might just have pumpkin gelato in the pipeline, who says ice cream can't be a healthy option?

And in case anyone's interested in Green Pumpkin, they are @ Serangoon Central Nex B1-80.

Bing Chillin's Sorbet Creations

Apologies that the Chillin team has been missing in action for a while, we've been on an intensive gelato-making journey so our last weekends were kinda maxed out.

But it was time well spent and we learnt a lot about the science and art of gelato/sherbet/sorbet making and the commercial ways of churning the dessert. And more importantly we devised some sorbet flavours which turned out fantastic and here's featuring 4 of them...

Strawberry: The colour was lovely, intense dark pink enhanced by some blackcurrants

Mango: This is a favourite because the taste was almost identical to eating real mangos and texture was smooth and sticky, surely beats many others out in the shops.

Pineapple: This is a flavour which surprised us. I was never a big fan of pineapple as a fruit but I loved this sorbet, refreshing and fibre-enriched. A very healthy option!

Lemon: This reminds me of the super lemon sweets, sour but will definitely appeal to lemon sorbet lovers. And the texture turned out non-icy unlike the rest we've produced before.

And here's how they look scooped out and served, professional just like how you get them in the shops. My personal favourites are the mango and the pineapple, certainly we've got some winners here!

In case you can't get enough of bing chillin's creations, stay tuned for the next post where we'll feature our gelato flavours. Meanwhile, we're ecstatic that we've got some great desserts in our freezers that's gonna last us for weeks =)