Ice cream for the dessert on this year's New Year's Eve menu
If you are a chef preparing desserts for your many guests on New Year's Eve and need input, help or inspiration for your New Year's dessert, read on here In Denmark we have a special tradition: many choose to celebrate New Year's Eve at home with good food, either homemade or as take-away from one of their favourite restaurants, which in many cases deliver a "fine-dining" meal of several courses, exactly as you would expect to experience at the restaurant. For many restaurants, New Year's Eve is an important day with high turnover. They often start early, perhaps as soon as the autumn, planning the menu. Then comes the preparation of the individual elements, such as sauces and dressings, before the main components of the menu are made. Among them the New Year's dessert, for which Kastbergs can help with the ice cream.
Ice cream for the New Year's dessert
Serving ice cream on a New Year's Eve menu that is delivered as take-away takes planning. At Kastbergs we have received many enquiries asking whether we can deliver ice cream in portion sizes for the menu, to make the work easier for the chefs in the kitchens.
New in 2023, Kastbergs will offer, to order, to make the ice cream element for the New Year's desserts. The ice cream will be moulded in specially made silicone moulds and shaped as a hemisphere of 80 ml or Ø7. We will offer this product as vanilla ice cream and as passion fruit sorbet.
Suggestion for an easy and simple New Year's dessert with ice cream
At Kastbergs we would very much like to help you chefs lighten the load by making a portion-ready dessert, as described below. We would love to make beautiful hemispheres of ice cream that are easy to plate with one or more other elements for a delicious and easy dessert.
That is why we have created a suggestion for a delicious, simple dessert that is easy to make and easy for your customers to plate at home. As you can see in the picture, a lovely hemisphere of vanilla ice cream is plated on a base of a delicious piece of brownie, potentially topped with a lovely salted caramel sauce. Precisely three things that together create a good balance between the rich flavour of the brownie, the sweetness of the vanilla ice cream and the saltiness of the caramel.
Dessert in practice
It is important to mention that this product is made only for sale for New Year's Eve, and will therefore not be part of our standard range.
As mentioned, the ice cream itself is moulded in silicone moulds in the shape of a hemisphere and contains 80 ml of ice cream, with a diameter of Ø7. Each ice cream is packed in individual packaging, delivered in boxes of 48 pcs.
This means that each restaurant is free to deliver the number of desserts the customer wants, not limited by multipacks of 6 or 12 pcs. It is also important to mention that Kastbergs only delivers the ice cream for the New Year's desserts, and not, for example, the brownie. What the dessert consists of beyond the ice cream itself is up to you to decide and make, and our example of a dessert is intended purely as inspiration for what you could do.