oh isn’t summer something wonderful? besides that you can sit outside in the evenings, it’s warm, you get a loooot of sun, there is also a huge variety of sun kissed fruits and veggies available. at the market you get regional Blueberries, raspberries, apricots, etc. just delightful of course this abundance also reflects in desserts, cakes and the likes. that’s why today’s recipe is a creamy dessert with blueberries and blackberries combined in a curd cream. since chocolate can’t be missed, it’s topped with a creamy, homemade chocolate pudding.

ingredients (6 glasses)

• 500 g blueberries
• 200 g blackberries
• 1 vanilla bean
• 160 g sugar
• 2 teaspoons lemon juice
• 200 ml milk
• 2 tbsp unsweetned cocoa powder
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 tbsp starch
• 400 g low fat curd
• maybe some mint as garnish

wash berries and gently dab until dry. cut Vanilla bean lenghtwise and scrape out vanilla seeds.

bring 250 g blueberries and the blackberries with 100 g sugar, vanilla seeds and lemon juice to a Boil and let simmer at low heat for 5 min. remove from stove, finely puree and let cool down.

in the meantime whisk egg yolk with rest of sugar until creamy, also beat in starch (it gets a bit more substance, that’s normal).

bring milk to a boil, mix in Cocoa powder and remove from stove. in a thin beam pour the cocoa milk into the egg mixture, while constantly stirring, so the egg doesn’t set. pour the whole mixture back into the pot, heat (don’t boil) until the cream thickens into a creamy pudding. let cool down, stir from time to time.

mix berries with curd and distribute cream unto 6 glasses. put in fridge.

divide the cooled down pudding evenly on top of the berry cream, place in fridge for at least 2 hours.

for serving top off with rest of blueberries and maybe garnish with some mint.

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