2. DESSERT SAUCES
Dessert sauces contribute flavor and moisture to a
particular dessert
Frozen desserts usually begin as a dessert sauce
3. Chocolate sauce-
different types, hot and
DESSERT SAUCES cold, two methods to
Crème Anglaise – make
classic dessert Most well known is
ganache- chopped
sauce, versatile, can
chocolate and boiling
be the base to ice hot heavy cream
cream
4. DESSERT SAUCES
Caramel sauce- starts with the prep of
caramel, which is a sugar cooked to 320
degrees, after making caramel you must add liquid
to prevent it from turning into candy.
Hot cream and water are often added
5. DESSERT SAUCES
Fruit Sauces- easiest to make, most popular are
raspberry, strawberry, mango, apricot, mixed berry
Mixture of pureed fruit, simple syrup and lemon
juice
Place fruit in blender, some fresh fruit needs to be
cooked first, be sure to strain!
6. FROZEN DESSERTS
Frozen desserts are popular in every type of
restaurant … McDonald’s to Fancy pants
restaurants
Includes ice cream, sorbet, sherbet, granite and
many other types
7. ICE CREAM
Most popular frozen dessert
Begins with a crème anglaise
base … just a higher fat content
Made with ice cream makers, and
ideally stored at 9 degrees
When adding chunky ingredients
to ice cream, you should add it
when the ice cream just leaves
the ice cream maker when it is
still soft
8. SORBET
French name for a
frozen mixture of fruit
puree, sugar, and
water
Starts with a fruit sauce
Also made in a ice
cream maker, too much
sugar prevents sorbet
from freezing
9. GRANITE’
Granite’ is a style of
sorbet that is slightly
less sweet than a
sorbet
Starts with fruit sauce
Stirred while in the
process of freezing
which causes ice
crystals
10. SHERBET
Sherbet is a cross between sorbet and ice cream
Starts with a fruit sauce and dairy is added
in, churned in an ice cream maker