Talking about the current pastry trends, Chef Vivek of The Imperial Hotel, New Delhi says, “Use of high fiber content, sugar alternatives like honey, palm sugar, jaggery amongst others will be much loved by people who opt for healthy variants while pleasing their sweet tooth. Along with this, French Pastries and cakes will see an upsurge in produce and demand accompanied by generous use of herbs and select ingredients. One can look for Lemon Posset with Blueberry on top with thyme shortbread and other such unheard innovations in the coming year.”
Guardian 20 has brought together a list of various places from where you can get the best of desserts.
Kaleva
If you are an old school person and wants to keep things classic, you should aim for a great treat at Kaleva at Gole Market. You won’t mind those extra pounds tasking the flavoursome rasmalai, gulabjamun and kesar lassi.
Varq, The Taj Mahal Hotel
If you are looking to try fusion desserts, you should head straight to the Varq restaurant of the Taj Mahal Hotel. The chief desserts will want to make you skip the main course. Try different stroke which is a trio of crisp jalebi with saffron, passion fruit reduction, fennel and black pepper crust. For the daring there is the sweet tooth of the maharaja. It has layers of garlic kheer and broken wheat porridge from the royal house of Mewar. The whisky chocolate and gianduja dome is a must have dish there. The innovative dessert is made using gianduja chocolate, an Italian hazelnut praline based chocolate. The creamed dome has bourbon whiskey and a cookie crunch base. The dessert served at the Taj Mahal Hotel is served with assorted berries and meringues.
Fio Cookhouse & Bar
Located at Epicuria Mall in Nehru Place, the restaurant provides a delectable range of sweet dishes. Starting from viennese raspberry choco mousse to caramel spiced mango mousse, one can easily graduate to their peanut banofee jar. Chef Ravindra Choudhary from Fio Cookhouse says, “Our restaurant has some exciting desserts on the menu for a perfect finale to your meal with a range of classics as we take your sweet tooth down a trail of absolute deliciousness.”
Dezertfox
This bakery, located at Munirka, Lajpat Nagar and GK 1, is famous for sourcing its raw materials from all over the world apart from India. Their cheese is from USA, cream from Denmark, nuts from Iran and Belgium Couverture Chocolate from Switzerland. Some of their best dishes include german stolen bread, rich & exotic fruit cakes, mini chocolate house, hazelnut dome and passionate framboise. For all those customers who suffer from either diabetes or prefer glutton free desserts, they also bake special desserts such as — season’s best philadelphia cheesecake, dark & white chocolate millephille, orange & espresso silk mousse, vanilla panna cota & egg free collection of deserts.
Natural Ice Cream
In winters, if you don’t eat an ice cream, then you are surely missing something worthwhile in winters. Proceed to any Natural Ice Cream parlour located at various centers in Delhi/NCR. Choose from a range of flavours like roasted almonds, kesar pista, muskmelon, kala jamun and many more.