Arctic Sensation

Name: Arctic Sensation
Yield: Serves 6–8
Ingredients: 1 pint (300 ml) double or single cream; 2 oz (50 g) demerara sugar; 2 teaspoons (2 x 5 ml spoon) vanilla essence; ½ teaspoon (2.5 ml spoon) salt; 2 oz (50 g) candied peel; 2 oz (50 g) cornflour; 1 pint (600 ml) milk; 1 dessertspoon (10 ml spoon) icing sugar; 4 large eggs (size 1–2), separated; 8 oz (225 g) caster sugar; 3 tablespoons (3 x 15 ml spoon) water; 1 oz (25 g) split almonds; 3 oz (75 g) dried peaches, chopped; 1 packet of trifle sponges

Preparation info

Serves
6–8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Sweet Dreams

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1985

About

This spectacular pudding is not difficult to achieve, but you must make part of it several hours in advance. It is a hot and cold pudding: a dome of glistening, hot meringue covered with toasted almonds, with a chilled centre reminiscent of the best kind of trifle. Make all but the meringue well beforehand and then have the meringue all ready, so that the final flourish takes only a few minutes.

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Dessert
Vegetarian

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