Fri, 15 December 2023
Ingredients:
- 1 packet of jelly mix (your choice of flavor)
- Fresh fruits (such as strawberries, raspberries, or blueberries)
- Whipped cream
- 2 meringue nests
- Fresh mint
- Shaved chocolate flakes
Sponge cake pieces
- 2 eggs
- 100g sugar
- 100g flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- Pinch of salt and vanilla
Raspberry coulis:
- 1 pack of raspberries
- 2 tbsp icing sugar
- 1 tbsp water
- 1/2 lemon, juiced
Instructions:
1. Prepare the jelly mix according to the instructions on the packet. Poor into the base of the glasses with some fresh fruit in it to set in the fridge
2 To make the sponge cake layers, whisk the eggs and sugar together with the vanilla. Sieve the flour, baking powder and salt in and fold. Bake in a small 6” tin for 25 min at 180oC until golden.
3. For the raspberry coulis: Add the raspberry’s and sugar to a small pot and gently simmer with the water and lemon to create a thickened sweet raspberry sauce (squash the raspberries with the back of a spoon).
4. Layer the Eton mess pots with the jelly base set, some fresh cream, broken pieces of the cooled sponge cake, crushed meringue pieces and fresh fruit. Top with shaved chocolate, mint leaves and optionally warm custard!
