Basic vanilla parfait

Name: Basic vanilla parfait
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: ¼ cup water; seeds from ½ vanilla bean or ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract; 6 egg yolks; 1½ cups 35%-fat cream, whipped; 100 g white sugar

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Wild Weed Pie

By Janni Kyritsis and Roberta Muir

Published 2006

About

You can use this basic recipe to create an endless variety of flavoured parfaits by omitting the vanilla and adding one of the following: ¼ cup praline; 1½ tablespoons strained passionfruit pulp; 1 cup cold espresso coffee (short black); or any fruit purée to taste.

Ingredients

100 g white sugar
¼ cup water
6 egg yo

Method

Combine sugar and water in a saucepan, bring to the boil, then simmer until a drop of the syrup forms a soft ball when dropped into cold water.

At the same time, whisk egg yolks in an electric mixer until mixture falling from the beaters forms a ribbon-like pattern on top of the mixture for a few seconds. Slowly add sugar syrup to the eggs, drizzling it down the side of the bowl

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