Summer fruits take centre stage for pastry chefs

Summer has well and truly arrived and so has the season of outdoor entertaining around meals featuring fresh produce. But often when the mercury rises, so does laziness: we don’t usually want to spend hours in a hot kitchen preparing food. So what kinds of things can we make that don’t involve too much effort – particularly desserts, which we want to keep light in such high temperatures? Amanda Bankert, the owner and pastry chef at Boneshaker Donuts in Paris, gives us her tips.