| So, instead of predictable fresh fruit salad, he dishes up a stunning lavender ice cream with walnut nougatine and home-made ices of green apple, mango and ruby grapefruit. |
| Arrange pieces of nougatine around the top of the ice cream in the decorative pattern and garnish the tip of each with gold leaf. |
| For the pistachio nougatine, preheat the oven to 350 degrees. |
| Dessert was a plow-shaped tiered cake, an impressive construction of caramel-coated cream-filled puffs, sugar flowers and nougatine. |
| Transfer the nougatine sheet to a cutting board and chop into small pieces. |
| The mille-feuille was indeed outstanding, the puff pastry perfectly flaky, the vanilla cream light and aerial, the nougatine topping thin and crunchy. |
