My summer dessert special. If you come to my house during berry season, this is likely what you’ll get. |
This is, actually, really, a dessert I invented myself. You can tell by just how imprecise everything is. It was probably borne out of that great motivator: greed.
This is what you need:
Some amaretti biscuits
Mascarpone, you need about 1-2 tablespoons per person depending on size of glass.
Some yoghurt
Lemon curd
Some berries
Some icing sugar
Some pretty glasses
Long spoons
Crush the amaretti biscuits. Whip up the mascarpone with the yoghurt and lemon curd – to taste. I tend to have a 60/30/10 split mascarpone/yoghurt/lemon curd. And when I say whip up, I mean just kinda loosen it with a fork until it’s all homogenised.
Take some of the berries and whizz them up in a liquidiser with the icing sugar. Just a tablespoon or so of the icing sugar! This is for the syrupy part.
Then you just layer everything, a layer of crushed biscuits, a layer of fruit, layer of the mascarpone mixture, a bit of the syrup repeat, etc. The syrup makes things really tasty, so don’t skimp on it. I like to end up with a sprinkling of the amaretti or some chopped hazelnuts on top of a top layer of the mascarpone mixture.
You can make these in advance and bring them out at the end. With a flourish.
Oh yummy yum yum…