Apple, blackberry & cassis fool
Prep
15 mins
Cook
5 mins
Servings
6
Difficulty
Easy
This is one of my favorite desserts to whip up when friends are coming over because it's ready in just twenty minutes, yet tastes like you've spent hours in the kitchen. Blackberries are packed with antioxidants, making this indulgent treat feel a little bit virtuous. The beauty of a fool is its simplicity: you fold together whipped cream and custard with stewed apples and blackberries, then layer it all with a buttery shortbread. It's elegant, creamy, and honestly, it costs almost nothing to make.
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Ingredients
- 600 gramsbramley apples
- 2 tbspcassis(cassis, plus more for serving)
- 200 gramsblackberries(blackberries, plus more for decorating)
- 150 mlsdouble cream
- 125 gramsno.1 madagascan vanilla custard
- 40 gramsicing sugar(icing sugar, plus extra to taste)
- 1shortbread(Shortbread, to serve)
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Instructions
- 1
Peel the apples, then slice them finely, discarding the cores. Put them into a saucepan with the cassis. Cook, covered, on a very low heat for 4-5 minutes until the apples have collapsed into a fluffy mass. You need to stir them a couple of times as they cook. Leave to cool.
- 2
Stir the blackberries into the apples, squashing the berries with the back of a spoon, so that their juices run. Whip the cream until it holds its shape well and stir that into the fruit with the custard and sugar. Taste to see whether you are happy with the amount of cassis and the level of sweetness and adjust.
- 3
Spoon the fool into six small glasses and put in the fridge for a few hours. I don’t like it ‘set’ but I do like it chilled and it’s good for it to firm up a little. Add a few blackberries to the top of each glass and a little drizzle of cassis. Serve with shortbread on the side.
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