Brony Chef Project #14: Princess Cadence

As we are on the subject of Royalty durring the last post, I figuire it would be best to create a lighter, brighter breakfast/dessert hybrid for the spring. But first, I would like to introduce you to the ruler of the Crystal Kingdom and Hero of the Royal Canterlot Wedding, the real Princess Cadence.

Princess Cadence came into light in the second half of the Royal Canterlot Wedding. She was found down below the castle after Queen Chryslis (see Brony Chef Project #13), trapped her as Chrysalis took her image. She was reunited with her childhood freind Twilight Sparkle after, Twilight herself, was captured by the same imposter. After an amazing performence of her aria, Candace came to the rescue his fiancé Shining Armor and Banished Chrysalis from Canterlot.
Shortly after, Candance and Shining Armor were sent to the Crystal Kingdom after in the frozen north after a 1000 years of isolation from rest of Equestria. Up there, Princess Cadence became the official ruler of the crystal Kingdom along side with Shining Armor to protect the crystal ponies and keep equestria safe from darkness.
The idea for Cadence came right after I did the Chrysalis Caprese. I knew that someday I would have to do Princess Cadence, since Chrysalis was disguised as her. Plus, it was the right opportunity to try seasonal ingediants for my recipies. For this one in particular, I try to incorperate strawberries since they are in season from Mothers Day to Fathers Day. Not only did the fruit match the season, but the flavor of the strawberry matches the equal amount of sweetness in the character.
I also took suggestions from my twitter (@chefkyro #bronychefproject) and many of them responded that Cadence would be more of the steriotypical dessert of strawberry short cake. For me how ever, I wanted to create something somewhat simular but still different from who princess Candence is normally veiwed.
I decied to create a parfait. Somewhat of a dessert/breakfast health concious hybrid that is so beautiful and so easy to make, that anyone can look like a professtional dessert master.
Not only does it look and taste spectacular but its perfect if you want to start eating healthier for the summer. It has greek yogurt, that has more cultures to help digestion and you can add many different kinds of fruits to add many different nutriants. It also has no surgar but it still naturally sweet, so you can still have desserts without much guilt. Its almost too good to be true.
Ok, enough obsessing over princesses and healthy desserts. Here is the recipie for "Mi Armoire Candenza's Sugar-free Strawberry Shortcake Parfait".

Mi Armore Cadenza's Sugar-free Stawberry Shortcake Parfit

Serves 1 Big dessert or Dessert for two

Parfait

• 1 Strawberry, cut into 4 equal pieces
• 4 oz of Vanilla Greek Yogurt
• 1 surgar-free shortbread cookie (or more if you wish), cut in half
• 6 oz of Strawberry Greek yougurt

Topping

• 1/4 pint of heavy cream
• 1 mint leaf

1. Make the topping by putting the heavy cream in a chilled bowl and wisk until peaks start to form. (You can use a automatic hand mixer to get the job done faster.) Once the cream is whipped, place the cream inside of the fridge until plating.
2. Take a water glass or wine glass and place the strawberry slices evenly on the bottom of the glass.
3. Then add the vanilla yogurt to cover some of the stawberries.
4. Take the halfs of the cookie and slide them into the glass, flat on top of the yogurt.
5. Add the starwberry yogurt on top of the cookie.
6. Take the whipped topping out of the fridge and dollop on top until the glass is about full.
7. Add the mint leaf as garnish and serve.

Presentation Tips

If you want to add different kinds of presentation for this recipies, the best advice I could give you is to use clear glasses. Not only would it looks luxourious, but it can show case the other fruites and other ingredients you can put into it. You can also change the patern to add some creativity to your plating design or add other ingridents to create a colorful, heathy treat.

I would like to thank http://ric-m.deviantart.com/ for the amazing portrait of Candance. Take a look at her gallery for more artwark and lots of other cool stuff.

I hope you enjoy the greate warm weather and cool off with this awsome new dessert. Feel free to tweet me questions, suggestions, or show off your creations @chefkyro #bronychefproject. Thanks for reading and bon apitite.

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