Christmas spices panna cotta

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This has to be one of my favorite Christmas Countdown desserts that I’ve made. I had these lovely snowflake molds and not a single idea what I could do with them; in my mind, it had to be something white (because it’s a snowflake!!), so something with chocolate was inappropriate (who likes muddy snow?!), something with lemon was out of the discussion as well (just two words… yellow snow). What was I supposed to do to check my list? I had the idea of a panna cotta made with some lavender honey that I got from a Christmas fair, but it was way to boring for me to just add some honey (it tastes good, but that wasn’t what I was searching for). I browsed a little for inspiration on the internet until I found a recipe made by Kylie Millar, MasterChef Australia Series 4 contestant, and I was hooked. He made a panna cotta with cinnamon, cloves and anise and ^Oh my, should I add all these spices that you usually use for gingerbread in my Christmas panna cotta?^ YES. It’s the best of both worlds, the softness of the panna cotta combined with the taste of gingerbread. Maybe I should have called this gingerbread panna cotta, but now it’s too late for that 🙂 Anyway, too much gibberish; try the recipe and you’ll be pleasantly surprised! Merry Christmas!