Simple dessert that looks brilliant

I’m the first to admit that when you sit down for dinner at a friend or colleagues house it can be all rather daunting when they bring out the most elegant looking food. Something that looks as though they have brought to life a picture from a cookery book and you’re sat there thinking “I could never produce anything like that...” or “they’re gonna laugh at the slop that I dish up”.

Well there is no need to worry, you can present like a professional even if you feel like a fake. I don’t necessarily mean with dabs of syrups and sauces but you can make your food look great by using presentation rings like these available at Lakeland...

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/F/product/5421_5422

What’s great about these is:

- They are easy to use
- They make your food look fab
- You can tell your guests that it took you ages to do!
- You can use them for loads of different things: Desserts, rice, scrambled egg, mashed potato, cous-cous and more. In fact, you can use them for anything where you can shape the food...all for £5.99 (no, I don’t work for Lakeland, but these things are just simply brilliant)

The picture is a quick and easy dessert I whizzed up today and I think it looks pretty special

Here’s how I did it:

Ingredients:
- Small amount of vegetable oil
- 5 or 6 digestive biscuits
- Nob of butter
- Pack of Angel Delight
- 1 Bar of chocolate (Cadbury’s Dairy Milk or similar) optional

Method

1) Rub a small amount of vegetable oil around the inside of the presentation rings (makes it easier to take the rings away at the end
2) Blend digestive biscuits (about 5 or 6) in the food processor to make crumbs
3) Melted a nob of butter in a saucepan, once melted take off the heat
4) Mix crumbs into butter well
5) Put presentation rings onto centre of the plate
6) Push the crumbs into the presentation rings and put in the fridge
7) Make up a packet of Butterscotch flavour Angel Delight (or supermarket version)
8) Pour Angel Delight over the bases (still in the presentation rings)
9) Put back in fridge to chill
10) Optional but I decorated with some chocolate scrapings – quite simply use a potato peeler on the back of a bar of chocolate to create these (or buy them at the supermarket already done)
11) When Angel Delight is set it’s ready to serve, take out of fridge and gently ease the presentation rings away...Ta-Dah!!

What you are left with is a professional looking dessert that is quick, easy and most of all tasty!

If you don't have presentation rings try this recipe but serving it up in a wide rimmed cocktail or wine glass it looks just as impressive!