Only Recipes, by Alessandra Zecchini ©

No raspberries this season, but you can make this pudding with freeze dried raspberry powder! I used  2  free range egg whites (no egg yolks or you will not get a pretty pink colour!), 3 tbsp of sugar, 1 tbsp of flour  500 ml of milk, 20 g butter and 2 tbsp of  Fresh As  Raspberry powder. Stir the first 4 ingredients and then, once the custard is thick, add the following two, stirring well. Turn off the heat and pour into 4 glasses.  Refrigerate before serving.  Top with frozen raspberries if you like. . Photos and recipes by Alessandra Zecchini  ©

An easy recipe with chocolate, cardamom and berries, and the kids loved the glasses!!! These are quite cute grappa glasses that sit on the side and can roll around like a spinning top, in fact I don't use them much because they are quite wobbly, but they do give that 'ship-in-a-bottle' feel to food, and are perfect for verrines and fancy dinners. I made a chocolate cream with one  egg, 1/2 tbsp flour, 2 tbsp sugar, 50 g dark chocolate and 250 ml milk. In the end I added a few seeds of cardamom. I poured the chocolate pudding into the glasses and when it was cold I added raspberries, strawberries and other berries... but I have to say that this part wasn't that easy, I should get myself some long and skinny tongs! Photos and Recipes by Alessandra Zecchini  ©

This recipe is for the September 2012 edition of Sweet New Zealand .  If you are blogging in NZ, or you are a Kiwi blogging from overseas you are welcome to take part too! You can fine all the i nfo by clicking  here . When I was little in Italy there was a sachet to make strawberry pudding, and I used to fantasize about it. My mother always bought the chocolate one, and rarely the vanilla one, while I was dreaming of trying the strawberry because it was... pink! In the end Mum got it but we were all disappointed: it tasted quite artificial, and the pink colour too was ... too artificial. Since then I only made strawberry pudding with real strawberries. Well, until a week ago, that is. After the  plum powder  I tried the strawberry powder, the ingredient list is pretty short: it only says strawberry! This time I wasn't going to get that 'artificial' feeling! I made the pudding twice, the first tasted good...  but I used whole eggs and the yell...