Blackberry and Lemon Curd Fool

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      10 min

Appears in
In the Mood for Entertaining

By Jo Pratt

Published 2009

  • About

I’m a bit of a lemon curd fan and love to use it when I can as a short cut ingredient for desserts. In this rather indulgent fool, it adds a delicious sweet lemon flavour (funnily enough), which works really well with the slight tartness of the blackberries.

Ingredients

  • 250 g blackberries
  • 50 g caster sugar
  • 2

Method

Place 200g of the blackberries, the sugar and crème de cassis in a small saucepan and cook for about 5 minutes until the blackberries have become mushy. Blend to a purée and strain through a sieve. Leave for about 30 minutes to cool completely.

Whip the cream until it forms soft peaks. In a separate bowl, mix together the Greek yoghurt and lemon curd. Stir this into the cream, then gent