Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night is one of the most recognizable pieces of modern art. We were so inspired by his dreamy masterpiece that we created a recipe for an enchanting starry night pudding that looks as beautiful as the painted original!
Starry Night Pudding
Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night is one of the most recognizable pieces of modern art. We were so inspired by his dreamy masterpiece that we created a recipe for an enchanting starry night pudding that looks as beautiful as the painted original!
Equipment
- star-shaped cookie cutters in 2 sizes
- 4-inch metal bowl
- 8-inch metal bowl
Ingredients
- 14 egg yolks
- 0.5 cup sugar
- 3 cups heavy cream
- 12 gelatin sheets, soaked
- 24 oz white chocolate, chopped
- blue food coloring
- yellow food coloring
- melted white chocolate for decorating
- 1 slice white bread to use as a sponge
Instructions
- Beat the egg yolks and sugar until creamy and soak the gelatin sheets in cold water. Heat the heavy cream to about 140-160°F and melt the chocolate in the heavy cream. Squeeze as much water out of the gelatin as possible and add it to the white chocolate cream mixture. Mix well until combined, then carefully stir the white chocolate cream into the egg and sugar mass.
- Pour ⅔ of the pudding into a bowl and stir in the blue food coloring. Add the other ⅓ of the pudding to a second bowl and add the yellow food coloring.
- Grease a small baking tray, pour some of the yellow pudding into it, and let it set. Use 2 different-sized cookie cutters to cut out stars from the pudding.
- Rinse the larger of the 2 metal bowls with cold water and press the yellow stars to the inner wall.
- Fill the larger metal bowl halfway with the blue pudding. If the pudding is too firm at this point, just reheat it in the microwave until it's liquid again. Press the smaller metal bowl into the center and refrigerate the entire thing until it has set.
- Remove the smaller bowl, pour the yellow pudding into the hole, and refrigerate the entire thing once more until it has set. Then pour the rest of the blue pudding into the bowl until it reaches the top and refrigerate the entire thing for at least 4 hours.
- Flip the set pudding over onto a plate. The easiest way to get the pudding to slide right out is to briefly pass a hair dryer over the bowl or put the bowl in hot water.
- Divide the melted white chocolate for decorating between 3 bowls. Color one bowl blue, one bowl yellow, and leave the last bowl plain. Tear a slice of white bread into chunks for sponges and use the colored white chocolate to decorate the pudding.
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Food imitating art, right guys? This is certainly a culinary masterpiece, the likes of which you’ve probably seen before. If you’re into modern art and love great desserts, then this is the recipe for you!