Apple and Blackberry Charlotte

Name: Apple and Blackberry Charlotte
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 50 g butter, plus more for the pie dish; 50 ml stock syrup (25 g sugar boiled in 25 ml water); ½ vanilla pod, split and scraped; icing sugar to taste; 140 g plain flour; 8 egg yolks; 4 whole eggs, separated; 7 firm-fleshed apples, such as Cox’s, Spartan or Jonagold; 50 g icing sugar; 100 g caster sugar; Dash of lemon juice; 500 ml full-fat milk; 250 g blackberries

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Today's special

By Anthony Demetre

Published 2008

About

If you haven’t got the time or inclination to make this all from scratch, you can of course cut corners by buying sponge fingers or boudoir biscuits and mixing some blackberries into bought apple compote.

Ingredients

For the Sponge Fingers

4 whole eggs, separated
100 g caster sugar
140 g

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
England
Vegetarian

Method

Start preparing this dish well ahead. First make the sponge fingers, preheat the oven to 180°C/gas 4.

Whisk the egg yolks and sugar in a bowl until light and creamy. Whip the egg whites in another bowl until standing in soft peaks.

Add a little of the whipped egg whites