Simple Summer Sundae for a warm Sunday

Here comes the beautiful sun ...finally after half of the summer is gone. Better late than never. I think he was saving himself for the Olympics that are going to kick off in less than a week. The whole nation is all cheered up and geared up for the biggest sports event of the World.I hope everything goes well and we all will be proud of the event. Yayy!!!Go London!!

 Now, i am a bit pleasantly surprised that my highest hits are from The UK followed by India( thought it would be the other way round) and USA in third place and followed by Russia(this is fantastic as i have no friends in Russia at all) followed by all sorts of countries like Philippines, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, New Zealand , Taiwan, China etc...Thank you all for checking my blog out. I quite like the International audience bit. It's been 10 days since i have posted and i got a few asking me why am i not posting anything new? This actually motivates me a lot that some of them even follow my blog on a regular basis. I also like to let everyone know that i do not  just randomly pick a recipe from any book or website and post it. I think a lot about the season, the local availability of the the ingredients or their substitutes, preparation time and the ease. I try it in my kitchen beforehand and once i am happy with the result i post it on my blog. It's all tried and tested guys!!!
I was thinking of all sorts of dishes to make today and then when i went to the local 'Taj', i just .fell in love with their fruits section and then i started building this recipe in my head. The perfect fruit and yogurt sundae. I am from South India and we always finish the rice with yogurt ,especially during summer for it's body-cooling tendencies. We quite like to add fruits to our yogurt rice,bananas being most favorite followed by Mango and Pomegranate seeds. So, I took that as my inspiration to this absolutely simple and gorgeous looking dessert. Feel free to go crazy with any kinds of fruits you like. Please, use only fresh fruits and not frozen or canned.This is such  a healthy summer dessert with loads of colors and textures.Give it a go. You will not be disappointed.

The ingredients in the photo is what i used and this is just to give you a rough idea. Sundae is all about building the layers with different colors and textures. So, i used some orange cream wafers, oatmeal cakes and broken corn flakes that end up in the bottom of the box. You can use biscuits, cookies, sponge cake, puffed rice, caramel popcorn, clusters....i don't know.The choice is endless.So this is what we use for base. I used my oatmeal cake for first layer that goes in the bottom of the glass then i built it with some raspberries and bananas to go with crunchy oatmeal cakes and layer of vanilla yogurt followed by a layer of strawberry yogurt. I used low fat out of my own choice. You can go full fat if you like yours more creamier.Then i used orange wafers for my next level followed by guava, more banana and pomegranate seeds.In goes another spoonful of both yogurts and then the final level. cornflakes(i love using frosties)Apple, banana, raspberry and and another spoonful of yogurt. To finish it all off, some guava, remaining berries, desiccated coconut, orange wafers and broken bits of cornflakes. That is all to it guys. Now, if this does not tickle your taste buds then i do not know what will.Try to get your kids involved in building it. They will love it. You can go with any flavored yogurt. You can even flavor your yogurt at home if you have plain yogurt.Try getting a bit of mango pulp or berry puree into it. As i always say, this is just an idea and you can let your imagination run wild and free.

Most important point to remember is not to make in well in advance and keep it in the fridge as this will completely ruin all the different textures as yogurt will soften them up. Get all your prep ready and assemble it just minutes before service so that every spoon has a bite to it. Please do try it and feel free to give me your feedback.Keep the summer rolling fellas....