London’s experimental new ice-creams and sorbets – Evening Standard

It is an edible optical illusion. The latest ruse from Dominique Ansel looks like a kiwi fruit, its fuzzy on the outside and tangy sharp within. But this is no virtuous fruit, its hedonism in the form of chocolate and ice cream what more would you expect from the creator of the Cronut and winner of the Worlds Best Pastry Chef 2017?

In a month of record temperatures, ice cream has been an essential part of diets. Iced coffees popularity is waning because it takes too long to make you will be the most hated person in the caf as a queue forms behind you. Instead, London is making advances with iced cream.

As well as the kiwi fruit theres black ice cream and frozen eclairs. Ansel describes his dessert as a sorbet for summer.

Kiwi has a unique taste and texture a sweet, slightly tart and juicy centre, that works really well as a cold, refreshing sorbet, says Ansel. I recreated that fuzzy skin with a layer of milk chocolate so that its actually edible, and rather than actual kiwi seeds we use poppy seeds, which adds a little extra bite.

Unique: Dominique 's Ansel kiwi ice cream

Meanwhile, the clair-specialists at the Melba coffee shop on the Strand have concluded that ice cream is the ideal way to improve the French classic. Savoy executive chef Ludwig Hely is letting customers choose from a range of mouth-watering ice cream flavours and toppings to personalise their Icclairs, which are (as the name suggests) an ice cream and clair mash-up.

When the redesigned Melba reopens on Monday, customers can choose from popping candy, cookie dough and candyfloss toppings (along with more grown-up options such as caramelised hazelnuts and chocolate pearls) to lash over scoops of dark chocolate, Sicilian pistachio and wild berry ice cream.

The endless variety means there are plenty of excuses for repeat visits, and if the Icclairs taste anywhere near as good as they look then youre in for a good dessert.

Similarly eye-catching is Judes pitch-black coconut ice cream, flavoured with coconut ash. This emo sounding ingredient creates an intense coconut flavour but the only way to know for sure is to head to the Pear Tree Caf in Battersea to try it yourself. Its bound to make you stand out from the next person with a 99.

Its possible to have a perfectly varied diet of different ice creams. Summer has never been so cool.

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London's experimental new ice-creams and sorbets - Evening Standard