Peach melba smashed pavlova
Ready-made custard and meringue nests make this an effortless dessert that's great for entertaining. You can swap in good-quality peaches in syrup if you fancy, but fresh, velvety soft peaches are hard to beat
- Total:
- Serves: 4 persons
Ingredients
- 300ml double cream
- 2tbsp icing sugar
- 1tbsp vanilla bean paste
- 150g ready-made custard (ideally yellow custard rather than cream-based)
- 4ready-made meringue nests,
- 2ripe peaches, cut into wedges
- 50g fresh raspberries
- toasted coconut flakes or crushed ice cream wafers, to serve
- 200g raspberries (fresh or frozen and thawed)
- 50g icing sugar
Instructions
Step 1
For the coulis, whizz the raspberries with the icing sugar in a small blender. Strain for a finer, seedless coulis, if you prefer.Step 2
Use an electric whisk to whip together the cream, sugar, vanilla and custard until soft peaks form. Swirl in a few spoons of the coulis to marble into the cream.Step 3
Break up the meringue nests to chunky pieces and scatter over a platter with the whipped vanilla custard cream. Top with spoons of the remaining coulis, peach slices, fresh raspberries and coconut to serve.