How to Make Summer Fruit Parfait
Serves: 4
Preparation time: 30 mins
Cooking time: –
Ingredients needed to make Summer Fruit Parfait:
- 4 ½ oz all butter vanilla biscuits
- 3 ½ oz blueberries
- 8 ¾ oz strawberries
- 1 ¾ oz white chocolate
- 10 ½ oz cream cheese
- 7 ½ oz whipping cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 oz icing sugar
- 1 oz caster sugar
- 4 tbsp black current liqueur
Cooking instructions for Summer Fruit Parfait:
- Add half of the strawberries to a bowl, along with the blueberries and pour in 2 tbsp of the black current liqueur.
- Toss them well to mix properly and set aside for an hour to marinate.
- Stuff the vanilla biscuits into a resealable plastic bag and crush them with a rolling pin; spoon it into 4 medium wine glasses and set them aside.
- Place the chocolate into a heatproof bowl, which in turn is nestled in a larger vessel filled with simmering water.
- Heat the chocolate over moderate heat until it melts completely to form a silky and shiny mixture; remove from heat and set aside to cool to some extent.
- Whisk the cream cheese with an electric mixer until it turns smooth.
- Stir in the caster as well as icing sugar, along with the vanilla extract and continue to whisk them thoroughly until the sugar dissolves.
- Pour the whipping cream into a separate bowl and whisk them thoroughly until they form firm peaks.
- Fold the whipped cream into the smooth cream cheese mixture until well combined and spoon the blend into two bowls.
- Add rest of the strawberries into a food processor and pulse them into a smooth puree.
- Pour the puree into cream cheese mixture in one of the bowls and pour in rest of the black current liqueur.
- Whisk them together until properly blended and set aside.
- Fold the melted white chocolate into the other cream cheese mixture until well mixed.
- Top the crushed biscuit base layer, in every wine glass, with spoonfuls of the above mixture, followed by the white chocolate-cream cheese mixture.
- Leave them in the fridge for an hour to chill and remove them from there just before serving.
- Arrange the marinated berries over the final layer of the parfait to decorate and serve chilled.
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