Chocolate and almond pavlova

Name: Chocolate and almond pavlova
Yield: Serves 6-8
Ingredients: 60 g flaked or whole blanched almonds lightly toasted with ½ tbsp icing sugar; 100 g mix of dark and white chocolate shavings; ½ tsp white wine vinegar; 150 g dark chocolate buttons; 6-8 scoops of vanilla ice cream; 150 ml double cream; 4 egg whites; ½ tsp cornflour; 140 g caster sugar; 50 ml milk

Preparation info

Serves
6-8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Mark Hix on Baking

By Mark Hix

Published 2012

About

I often serve this for big dinner parties, doubling the recipe and putting two of these great looking slipper-shaped meringues down in the middle of the table to share. You can vary this depending on how much time you have on your hands and can use chocolate mousse, crème fraîche or chocolate ice cream in place of the vanilla. You can make your own chocolate shavings for decorating by just pulling the blade of a knife across the flat side of a block of chocolate.