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This is absolutely the best Halloween Party Desert I have ever made.

Halloween Party: Panna Cotta Brain

Course Dessert
Servings 1 Brain

Equipment

  • A brain shaped mold

Ingredients
  

For the Panna Cotta Brain:

  • 3 12 oz cans evaporated milk divided
  • 4 1/4 oz packages unflavored powdered gelatin
  • 1 1/2 cups whipping cream
  • 1 cups sugar
  • 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 oz Amaretto
  • 1 little bit black food coloring paste

For The Blood Glaze:

  • 8 oz cranberry juice
  • 2 tablespoons cornstarch

Instructions
 

Instructions for Brain:

  • In a medium heat-safe mixing bowl add one can of evaporated milk and stir in 4 envelopes of gelatin, set aside.
  • Mix well and let this mixture stand for 5 minutes.
  • In a sauce pan, pour in 2 cans of evaporated milk and whipping cream, bring to a boil slowly.
  • Once it has started to boil add sugar, salt, and amaretto and stir until everything is dissolved.
  • Place a fine mesh strainer over the bowl with the gelatin-evaporated milk mixture.
  • Remove the saucepan from heat and carefully pour boiling milk mixture into the gelatin-evaporated milk mixture.
  • Stir in vanilla extract.
  • Add a little tiny touch of black food coloring for a "greyish" hue. This is so it looks more like "Grey Matter"
  • Pour the grey matter mixture into your brain mold and refrigerate overnight.
  • Top with the Blood Glaze just before serving.

Instructions for Blood Glaze:

  • In a small saucepan over medium heat, add cranberry juice and cornstarch. Mix well.
  • Bring to a boil slowly, stirring until it has thickened.
  • Remove the blood sauce from heat and cool to room temperature.
  • Stir well with a wire whisk.

Plating your brain and covering it with blood:

  • Flip your brain mold, with the set panna cotta, over onto a serving dish.
  • Spoon the blood cranberry juice mixture over the brain, and around the sides.
Keyword Halloween

I am making this again this year for halloween. But two years ago I made this for the first time and it was so realistic that no one wanted to eat it!

I ate it, and it was really good! This was also my last Halloween in America.

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