As summer is coming closer it's time to make some refreshing and yummy deserts. This pavlova brings all the taste and flavour of summer combined in a desert!
For the meringue:
4 egg whites
250g caster sugar
1 tsp corn flour
1 tsp vanilla extract
For the topping:
500g strawberries (cut in half)
200g red currants (stalks removed)
3 tbsp icing sugar
350ml double cream
Method:
1-Preheat oven to 150c/130cFan/Gas 2
2-Mark out a dinner plate using a pencil on baking parchment.
3-Whisk 4 egg whites with a hand whisk or spoon. They should form stiff peaks, whisk in the caster sugar a small amount at a time until there is a gloss.
4-Whisk in the corn flour and vanilla extract.
5-Spread the meringue inside the circle, make the sides higher than the middle.
6-Bake for one hour and then turn off the oven to cool.
7-Chop 100g of the strawberries and mix with 100g of red currants and add 2 table spoons of the icing sugar.
8-Blitz until smooth in a food processor.
9-Whip 350ml of double cream with the last of the icing sugar. Spread over the meringue.
10-Place the remaining fruit on the cream and pour the sauce over the whole dish.
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