Strawberries and cream

Name: Strawberries and cream
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 250 gm strawberries, hulled, coarsely chopped, plus extra, sliced, to serve; 20 ml Grand Marnier; 70 gm pure icing sugar, sieved; 400 gm crème fraîche; 200 gm thickened cream; 1 tsp vanilla bean paste; To serve: shop-bought shortbread or meringue, crushed

Australian Gourmet Traveller fast French dessert recipe for strawberries and cream.

Sep 15, 2013 11:28pm

By Alice Storey & Emma Knowles

Serves 4

Strawberries and cream

This dessert is ridiculously easy and ridiculously good.

Ingredients

250 gm strawberries, hulled, coarsely chopped, plus extra, sliced, to serve
20 ml Grand Marnier
70 gm pure icing sugar, sieved
400 gm crème fraîche
200 gm thickened cream
1 tsp vanilla bean paste
To serve: shop-bought shortbread or meringue, crushed

Method

Main

1
Pulse strawberries, Grand Marnier and 2 tbsp icing sugar in a food processor to a rough purée and set aside.
2
Whisk crème fraîche, cream, vanilla and remaining icing sugar in an electric mixer until soft peaks form (2-3 minutes), then fold in half the strawberry purée to combine, divide among 4 serving bowls and refrigerate until required. Just before serving, top with sliced strawberries and crushed shortbread, then drizzle with remaining strawberry purée.