Spumone di Fragole

Name: Spumone di Fragole (Italian Strawberry Parfait)
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1½ cups confectioners’ sugar; with 3 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar; 12 large fresh strawberries, sliced, or 2 handfuls of wild strawberries, left whole; 2 tablespoons strawberry liqueur or very sweet balsamic vinegar; 3¼ cups fresh strawberries, hulled; 5 tablespoons mascarpone or ricotta cheese; juice of ½ lemon; 2 cups heavy cream, whipped and sweetened

Italian Strawberry Parfait

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Classic Italian Cooking

By Valentina Harris

Published 2008

About

Areal childhood favorite for me. My original recipe is written in pencil in my dear mother’s handwriting on an old yellowed piece of card. I remember she always made it in a loaf pan.

Ingredients

3¼ cups fresh strawberries, hulled
2 tablespoons strawberry liqueur or very sweet balsamic vinegar

Europe
Italy
Dessert
Gluten-free
Vegetarian
Mediterranean

Method

Purée the whole strawberries by pushing them through a strainer into a bowl. Add the liqueur or vinegar.
Stir in the mascarpone or ricotta, then add the lemon juice and mix. Fold the sweetened cream into this mixture, then gently sift in the confectioners’ sugar, folding it in very gradually and carefully.
Finally, fold the sliced or wild strawberries