Dough: Bring water, butter and salt to a boil in a tall, narrow saucepan. Remove the saucepan from the stove, pour in the sifted flour all at once and stir it in. Place the saucepan repeatedly on the stove and heat, stirring vigorously until the resulting dumpling separates from the bottom. Now remove everything from the kitchen stove, add eggs a little at a time until the dough is shiny and comes off the spoon in long peaks.
Using a piping bag with a smooth round nozzle, pipe small crescents onto the baking sheet and bake at 160 °C for about 1/2 hour until golden brown.
Date cream: Whip the cream, remove the skin from the dates, chop finely and pass through a sieve, soak the gelatine in cold water. Let the gelatine melt in the mocha, add ground ginger, honey and star anise.
Just before gelling, fold in the whipped cream and fill the date cream into the half-moon bases and refrigerate for at least 1 hour Lime cream: Prepare the grappa with the saffron threads cooled and infuse in about 1/2 hour. Heat the lime juice and grappa, let the soaked gelatine melt in it, add the sugar, the grated lime and the mascarpone. Fold in the stiff whipped cream just before it gels. Fill the lime cream into the half-moon lids and leave to cool for at least 1 hour.
Fruit filling: Cut all the fruit into cubes and soak in the mixture of apricot schnapps and apricot jam for approx. 1-1, 5 stu.