Serve your valentine a light dessert after dinner. This is another way to toast your love for each other with champagne. This custard cream is made with champagne to create a beautiful, light and delicious parfait type dessert. The cream caresses fresh berries for a refreshing treat that is perfect after a fancy romantic dinner.
Ingredients:
- 8 egg yolks
- ½ cup of sugar
- 1 cup of your favorite champagne
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream, whipped
Fruit:
- Strawberries
- Raspberries
- Blueberries
Directions:
- Add the egg yolks and sugar into a heavy saucepan and beat with a hand mixer. Continue mixing until the mixture is thick and lemon yellow in color.
- Slowly add the champagne and continue mixing.
- Turn the heat on low and continue to mix with the mixer for another minute.
- The saucepan will now be hot.
- Continue to beat the mixture over a low heat for an additional 6-7 minutes until the cream reaches a temperature of 160’.
- Place the pan in a large bowl filled with ice water to cool the mixture down quickly.
- Stir the mixture for 2-3 minutes.
- Then wrap the top of the custard mixture with plastic wrap. Make sure the plastic sits on top of the custard and refrigerate until completely chilled.
- Whip the whipped cream in a medium sized bowl.
- Then fold the whipped cream into the custard cream mixture.
- Add a dollop of champagne cream to a parfait or cocktail glass.
- Place some berries over the cream.
- Add another dollop of cream and top with a few more berries and serve.
- Enjoy!
Jackson residents can shop at any of these local grocery stores Reeves Grocery, Pick’n Save or Wal-mart for all the ingredients needed for this recipe.
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