Monkey Food – Fruit Salad with Vanilla Cream and Chocolate Chunks

Name: Monkey Food – Fruit Salad with Vanilla Cream and Chocolate Chunks (Abemad)
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Danish
Ingredients: 6 tbsp raw cane sugar; 4 raw pasteurized egg yolks; juice of 1 orange; 1 sweet mango, cut into small chunks; 1 small sweet pineapple, cut into small chunks; 2 tangerines, cut into small chunks; 2 large sweet oranges, cut into small chunks; 1 large crunchy pear, cut into small chunks; 2 vanilla pods (beans), halved and seeds scraped; 2 large sweet, crispy apples, cut into small chunks; 500 ml (18 fl oz/2 cups) whipping cream; 4 bananas, halved and sliced; 100 g (3½ oz) dark chocolate, chopped roughly into chunks

Abemad

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cook Yourself Happy

By Caroline Fleming

Published 2017

About

Easy peasy to make, and almost always possible in most Danish homes – we have fresh fruit, we have cream and we have chocolate … we are just normal human beings! This is a very child-friendly dessert, although I don’t know many grown-ups who don’t love it just as much as the kids do.

Ingredients

For the Fruit Salad

4 bananas, halved and sliced
2 large sweet, crispy apples, cut into small chunks
1

Europe
Denmark
Dessert
Nordic
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

First make the fruit salad. Mix all the chopped fruit together in a large bowl and squeeze the orange juice over the fruit salad.

In a large bowl, whisk the egg yolks with the sugar and vanilla seeds until you get a gorgeous pale yellow creamy mixture.

In a separate bowl, whip the cream with an electric hand mixer until nice and firm. Very gently fold in the egg mixture to the c