Programme 10: Sweet Celebrations
It’s celebration time this week as Rachel serves up salted caramel cupcakes, nectarine and sloe gin jelly trifle and chocolate meringue cake.
Series Overview:
In Rachel Allen: All Things Sweet, Rachel is at home in Ireland to indulge her passion, and ours, for sweet things. From rich desserts to afternoon tea, children’s treats to dinner party wow factor, Rachel has it covered. And with desserts, cakes and confectionery often amongst the most technical of kitchen challenges, there is also a compendium of techniques, tricks and chef’s tips designed to help us all get the best possible results.
Rachel’s latest collection of delicious sweet recipes is the basis for this new series. The recipes featured in the series cover the full range, including everything from show-stopping dinner party finales to sweet treats for a simple cup of coffee with friends. The series features 39 set-piece recipes.
In addition to the recipes, each programme features part of the ‘Tricks of the Trade’ strand, filmed on location at Ballymaloe Cookery School. ‘Tricks of the Trade’ sees Rachel sharing professional techniques designed to help everyone produce dishes that taste great and look the part. If the recipes are the projects, then these sequences are the toolkit we need to tackle them.
Each show also features Rachel visiting people across Ireland involved in the food industry to learn their specialist skills. Filmed on location around Country Cork and Dublin Rachel meets ice-cream makers, hand made boiled sweet producers, bakers, chefs and chocolatiers to name but a few.
In Rachel’s latest series, life really is sweet!