Cherry and Chocolate Semifreddo
Cherry and Chocolate Semifreddo is a light, creamy frozen dessert that taste like frozen mousse, it’s made with heavy cream, condensed milk and mascarpone cheese with cherries and chocolate shards. Super easy and great impressive dessert.
Servings: 8 servings
Ingredients
- 1 cup cherry preserves
- 1 ½ cup heavy cream cold
- ¾ cup condensed milk
- ½ cup mascarpone cheese room temperature
- Chocolate shards or chocolate chips
Instructions
Cherry preserves
- Take 2 cups of pitted cherries and roughly chop them.
- Take the cherries in a pot on medium heat and add about 1/4 - 1/2 cup sugar. Let it simmer and cook until the cherries have reduced, and water has evaporated, and it looks jammy in consistency. Keep stirring in between with the help of a spatula. Once it’s done, remove it in a bowl or container. Let it cool completely for few hours or store it in the refrigerator overnight.
- You can avoid this step and buy store bought cherry preserves or cherries in sugar syrup.
Chocolate Shards
- Take 4 oz. of dark chocolate in a bowl. Place this chocolate bowl on a double boiler filled with water. You Let the chocolate melt. It will take 5 minutes roughly.
- Meanwhile, spread a parchment paper. Once the chocolate has completely melted. Carefully pour hot chocolate on the parchment paper, spread it using a spatula. The thickness of chocolate depends on personal choice, spread accordingly. If you want to keep it thick, then do not spread too thinly.
- Put this parchment paper on a tray carefully and put it in the freezer. Let it freeze for few hours.
- Once its frozen, roll the paper and press the paper, break the chocolate shards in any desired shapes. Keep them back in the freezer until ready to use.
Semifreddo
- Take cold heavy cream in a mixing bowl, using a hand blender or a whisk whip heavy cream until soft peaks form. Then add ¾ cup of condensed milk and mascarpone cheese and whip some more until you get medium peaks, and the volume has increased, and the mixture has doubled. Fold in half of the cooled cherry preserves and some of the chocolate shards. Leave some for later.
- Transfer the mixture in a prepared loaf pan lined with plastic wrap. You can swirl in some more cherry preserves if you like and add some more shards. Cover the hanging plastic wrap completely all over the loaf pan.
- Immediately put it in the freezer to chill over night or at least 6 hours.
- Once chilled, remove it and garnish it with more chocolate and cherries. You can also add some chopped nuts on top. Serve it sliced.
- Read tips on different ways to prepare and serve.