THE YOKES ON YOU: THIS IS ACTUALLY DESSERT
WOULD you eat a fried egg for dessert? What if it were made of ice cream and panna cotta?
A Reedy Creek cafe is serving the peculiar sweet treat straight from the pan, complete with bread for dipping.
While it looks uncannily similar to the real thing, tucking into one will deliver flavours of creamy carrot, vanilla and banana.
Simon Capewell, chef at The Allotment Cafe, said the peculiar pudding was part of his mission to create “unforgettable” dishes.
“I’m a firm believer in if we do something a bit quirky, hopefully people remember it and come back and bring their friends,” he said. “For me, I get more satisfaction when it hits the table and you can see (customers) trying to work out how I did it – some have spent 20 seconds before they put it in their mouth.
“The yolk is a carrot ice cream, the white is vanilla panna cotta. The bread is banana bread.’’
Mr Capewell said while the dish had been well received, it usually took a bold individual to choose the dessert before everyone else at the table ordered one.
His “smashed avo on toast”, served in a mason jar and pumped with smoke, has become a mainstay on the usually evolving menu.
He’s also serving “seedling pots” that look exactly like their namesake and come with tiny shovels, but are actually a tiny bowl of chocolate mousse, chocolate soil and microherbs.