Go gourmet for Xmas with Uptown Treats
Annalisa Patience offers her pumpkin spice cheesecake with ginger cookies. -
Annalisa Patience, self-taught dessert chef and owner of Uptown Treats dessert bakery, loves ponche de crème.
She doesn’t care for ginger beer. Ham and turkey, she’s had her share. But ponche de crème is her favourite thing about her favourite time of year.
It was this love for ponche de crème which led to the birth of her new Christmas dish – ponche de crème brulee.
“I love everything about ponche de crème. I love the flavour, the spices, and the alcohol. It is a lot like eggnog but I don’t think they use the same spices. I asked myself, how I can make something that no one has really tasted before? ” Patience said in an interview with Business Day, at her kitchen on Mendez Drive, Petit Valley. “Crème brulee is so creamy, and that caramelised sugar at the top is what makes it special. So I thought why not do it with ponche de crème.”