Strawberry Dessert

Do you want to put a festive dessert on the table and do you like strawberries as well? Then this dessert is highly recommended. It is a strawberry mouse and it is not difficult to make and looks great too.

Made it several times and always a success!

You need 4 serving squares (7cm by 7cm) or rings.

Ingredients

🕓 30 minutes - 4 hours stiffening in the refrigerator -

     4 persons

• 200 gr strawberries
• 100 gr digestives
• 100 ml fresh whipped cream 
• 60 gr sugar
• 50 gr butter
• 1 medium egg + 1 egg yolk
• 3 Gelatine leaves
• 4 serving squares (7 by 7)

Method

1. Wash the strawberries and pat them a little dry. (keep 4 strawberries separately for the garnish)
2. Do the strawberries together with the sugar and about 50 ml of water in the pan and boil it.
3. Let it cook for 2 minutes and then puree it with the blender.
4. Meanwhile, soak the gelatine leaves in a big enough bowl cold water.
5. Heat the fruit juice again a little and stir in the gelatine. ( squeeze the gelatine before use)
6. The bottom: Melt the butter and mix this together with the crumbled digestives.
7. Put the serving squares on a flat plate and put in the cookie mixture. Press firmly. Then you put it in the fridge to cool down.
8. Beat the whipped cream stiff and also put in the refrigerator.
9. Beat the egg + the egg yolk with the mixer until it is frothy and stir in with the spatula 3/4 of the fruit juice and whipped cream carefully. The mousse is now ready and can be divided over the 4 Squares. Smooth out well.
10. Let it stiffen in the refrigerator for two hours.
11. Heat the remaining fruit juice and spread over the mouse.
12. Then again put it in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours before serving.
13. To get the dessert out of the rings, it is best to release the edges with a hot knife.
14. Decorate it with a strawberry.    

        Buon Appetito!