Dessert Recipes - Pineapple Slice Recipe

Ingredients

• 250 g/9 oz/1 medium can of crushed pineapple, drained

• 450 ml/2 cups double (heavy) cream

• Finely grated rind of 1 orange

• 15 ml/1 tbsp icing (confectioners') sugar

• 200 g/7 oz/1 packet of digestive finger biscuits (graham cracker fingers)

• Glace (candied) cherries and angelica leaves, to decorate

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Method:

1. Put the drained pineapple on two sheets of kitchen paper (paper towels) to drain thoroughly. Whip half the cream. Take out 60 ml/4 tbsp and reserve.

2. Fold the pineapple with the orange rind and icing sugar into the reserved whipped cream.

3. Sandwich together half the biscuits with half the pineapple cream and lay on a serving plate. Spread with the reserved whipped cream.

4. Sandwich the remaining biscuits and pineapple cream in the same way as before and lay on top of the first layer. Cover with foil and chill for several hours or overnight.

5. Whip the remaining cream. Smother the cake in most of it, then pipe the remainder in swirls on top. Decorate with glace cherries and angelica leaves and chill.