Dessert Recipes - Strawberry Mallows Recipe

Ingredients

• 100 g/4 oz marshmallows

• 12 even-sized perfectly shaped strawberries, unhulled

• 50 g/2 oz/1/2 cup desiccated (shredded) coconut, toasted

• 50 g/2 oz any-sized strawberries

• Caster (superfine) sugar, to taste

• 2.5 ml/1/2 tsp lemon juice

• 150 ml/2/3 cup double (heavy) cream

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Method:

1. Put the marshmallows in a bowl and stand the bowl over a pan of hot water. Stir until melted. Push a cocktail stick into each of the 12 strawberries.

2. Dip in the melted marshmallow to coat completely, then coat with toasted coconut. Stick the cocktail sticks in a potato and leave to set.

3. Meanwhile, mash the 50g/2 oz strawberries until pulpy and sweeten to taste with the sugar. Spike with the lemon juice.

4. Whip the cream until stiff. Fold in the strawberry pulp. Pile on to four serving plates and arrange three coconut strawberries attractively on each plate.