Dessert Recipes - Orange Flower Creation Recipe

Ingredients

• 4 small springs of redcurrants

• caster sugar

• 4 oranges

• 225g/8oz cultivated blackberries

• 90ml/6 tsp orange juice

• 10ml/2 tsp lemon juice

• 60ml/3 tbsp orange flower water

• 2.5ml/1/2 tsp vanilla essence

• 3ml/2 tsp clear honey

• 60ml/4 tbsp fromage frais, to serve

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Method:

1. Dip the redcurrant sprigs in water, then roll gently in cater sugar to coat completely. Leave to dry on greaseproof paper on a wire rack.

2. Hold the orange over a bowl to catch any juice and cut off all the rind. Slice the fruit and arrange in a circle on four individual serving plates.

3. Pile the blackberries tin the centre of the rings. Add the orange juice to nay juice in the bowl.

4. Stir in the lemon juice, orange flower water and vanilla essence. Sweeten to taste with the honey.

5. Spoon over the blackberries and oranges and leave at room temperature for  at least 30  minutes.

6. Put a spoonful of fromage frais on top of the blackberries and lay the redcurrant springs on top. Serve straight away.