Snacks and Light Meals Recipes - Fruit Baskets Recipe

  
 

Desserts Recipes - Fruit Baskets Recipe

Ingredients

Serves 4

  • 125 g/4 oz plain flour

  • 125 g/4 oz icing sugar

  • 3 egg whites

  • a few drops of orange extract

  • 25 g/1 oz flaked almonds

  • 4 oranges, for moulds 

Pineapple sauce:

  • 2 slices of pineapple, peeled, cored and chopped

  • 125 ml/4 fl oz pineapple juice

  • 1-2 drops yellow food coloring

  • 125 ml/4 fl oz natural yogurt

Filling and decoration:

  • 375 g/12 oz seasonal fruit

  • 1 tablespoon icing sugar, sifted

Method:

  1. Sift the flour and icing sugar into a bowl, then beat in the egg whites until smooth. Cover and leave to stand for 1-2 hours. Stir in the orange extract and almonds.

  2. Mark four 18 cm/7 inch circles on silicone paper and spread out on 2 baking sheets. Spread the batter in the marked circles, then bake in a preheated oven, 180°C (350°F) Gas Mark 4, for 8 minutes or until pale golden.

  3. While the biscuits are cooking, prepare 4 oranges for moulds. Cut a fine slice off each, so that they stand up well, and grease lightly with oil.

  4. Allow the cooked biscuits to cool for about 1 minute, then ease them off the baking sheets and mould over the prepared oranges.

  5. To make the pineapple sauce, place the pineapple, juice and yellow food coloring in a small saucepan and simmer for 2 minutes.

  6. Transfer to a food processor or blender and work to a puree. Chill, then mix in the yogurt.

  7. To serve, place each biscuit basket on a pool of pineapple sauce on a dessert plate. Fill the baskets with seasonal fruit and dust with icing sugar.

Note: Use whatever fresh seasonal fruit you wish to fill these little biscuit baskets. Blueberries and sliced fresh figs are a good choice, but any combination of small or sliced fruits, such as strawberries, raspberries or green grapes, can be used. Arrange the fruit in the baskets just before serving them.