Welcome to How To Cook That I am Ann Reardon
Today we are making a simple but delicious dessert which has a strawberry and raspberry
sauce down the bottom, chantily cream piped on top of that, and then a shortbread type
biscuit all topped with fresh fruit.
To start with lets make that chantily cream so that it has time to chill before we need
it. You will need a vanilla bean, sugar and cream and then we we need more cream after
that and some white chocolate. All of the recipe quantities that you'll need are on
the website howtocookthat.net in grams and ounces and cups and I'll link to that recipe
in the description just below this video. Pour the cream and some sugar into your saucepan.
Then split your vanilla bean in half lengthwise using your knife scrape the sticky black seeds
out of the vanilla bean. Then we want to add the pod and all the seeds
and everything into the saucepan with the cream and sugar and heat it over a high heat,
stirring it until the cream just starts to boil.
Remove that from the heat and pour it through a sieve onto the white chocolate. This will
strain out any bits of the pod but lets all those little black seeds through.
Allow it to sit for a minute and then stir the now melted chocolate through until it
is smooth and completely combined. Then add the remaining cold cream stir that
and then place it into the freezer to chill for an hour.
While that is chilling lets make the biscuit part.
To do that you will need butter, icing sugar, one egg yolk, almond meal and flour. Beat
the butter until it is soft using electric mixers and then add in the icing sugar and
the egg yolk and then your almond meal and then beat that until it is smooth.
Now add all the flour and mix that in just using a spoon until it is just combined you
don't want to over-mix it because we are not wanting to make a tough pastry we are wanting
to make a soft shortbread type biscuit. Place the mixture between two sheets of non-stick
baking paper and then use a rolling pin to press it push it into a flat sheet. Then use
a circle cutter that is just slightly larger than your serving glasses to cut circles of
your dough. If you don't have a cutter you can use anything that is the right size in
your kitchen and then just cut around it with a knife.
Take off the excess dough from between the circles and roll that out again to cut another
circle. Then place that in the oven for 15 minutes
or until they're golden brown. To make the fresh sauce it's really easy just
place the strawberries the raspberries and the sugar into a blender or food processor
and liquify for 30 seconds. Then strain it through a sieve, use the back
of your spoon to push it all through so that you're just left with the seeds in the sieve
and a beautiful refreshing sauce is in the bowl.
Wash, hull and quarter your strawberries. Then take the chantilly cream out of the freezer
and whip it up using electric beaters. Now it shouldn't be frozen at all just really
cold. It is important not to over-whip it so stop
the beaters and check the consistency, if its still runny like this it needs more beating.
Keep whipping until you can see the beater pattern on top, and when you turn it off and
lift up the beaters it holds its own soft peaks. If you keep beating it at this stage
you'll over-whip it and make start to turn into butter. So the fats going to seperate
from the liquid and it won't be a nice texture at all.
Place the chantilly cream into a piping bag fitted with a large star shaped nozzle. If
you don't have a piping bag don't worry you can just use a plastic bag and on the caramel
cupcakes video on my channel I show you how to cut the bag there to give the same effect
as the star shaped nozzle. Add 20 ml of fruit sauce to the bottom of
each glass. I am just using a medicine measurer here to get exact even amounts in each glass
and also it gets it cleanly into the bottom of the glass without splashing it up the sides.
Then pipe a generous portion of the chantilly cream into each one. Place your biscuit carefully
on top and then arrange your fresh fruit in a pile on top of that.
Serve it to the table and instruct your guests to push down in the centre of the biscuit.
And then they can get a spoonful of the delicious chantilly cream, sauce, crunchy biscuit and
fresh fruit all in one mouthful.
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