Knickerbocker Glory 99

Name: Knickerbocker Glory 99
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 150 ml strawberry or other fruit-based sauce; 150 ml strawberry or other fruit-based sauce; 300 g good-quality vanilla ice cream; 100 g fresh fruit in season; 8 shortbread biscuits; 4 chocolate flakes

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How To Eat In

By Adam Byatt

Published 2010

About

A knickerbocker glory should be all about layers, textures and varying levels of sweetness, and eating through those layers messily. The only secret to making a good glory is to keep the layers separate and the flavours contrasting.

Ingredients

8 shortbread biscuits
150 ml strawberry or other fruit-based sauce
300

Vegetarian
ice cream

Method

Preparation

Put 4 glasses into the freezer and leave them for several hours so that they get ice cold before using.

Crush half the shortbread biscuits.

Put 2 tbsp strawberry sauce into the bottom of each glass, then place a shortbread biscuit on top, to separate the liquid at the bottom from the other