Pineapple en Surprise

Name: Pineapple en Surprise
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: Italian meringue, made with 6 egg whites, 1 ½ cups/300 g sugar, ¾ cup/175 ml water and 1 tsp vanilla extract; Pastry bag and large star tube; 1 mango or papaya, peeled, seeded and sliced; 2 small pineapples, halved, flesh removed and cut in pieces; 1 carambola, sliced; 4-6 kumquats, sliced or 2 kiwi fruits, peeled and sliced; 2-3 tbsp/30-45 g sugar; 2-3 tbsp/30-45 ml rum; 1 qt/1 l vanilla ice cream

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

La Varenne Pratique

By Anne Willan

Published 1989

About

Any combination of tropical fruits may be hidden under the ice cream and meringue topping in this recipe. The technique of hollowing out a halved pineapple (previous page) is used here.

Ingredients

2 small pineapples, halved, flesh removed and cut in pieces
1 mango or papaya, peeled, seeded and sliced
1 caram

Europe
France
Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free
Mediterranean

Method

To make the fruit salad: mix the pineapple pieces, mango or papaya, carambola, kumquats or kiwi fruit, sugar and rum in a bowl. Cover and leave to macerate in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours. Pile the fruit salad into the pineapple halves and chill.
Make the Italian meringue. Heat the oven to 375°F/190°C. Cover the fruit in each pineapple shell with ice cream, t