Prinjolata
It's Carnival Time! And what better way to satisfy your taste buds than with a home made prinjolata!
Ingredients
- 150g Kerrymaid butter
- 250g caster sugar
- 1tsp vanilla essence
- 1tbsp Schardinger buttermilk
- 800g tea biscuits of your choice
- 60g glaced cherries
- 60g roasted pine nuts
- 60g roasted flaked almonds
- Sugar syrup
- 60g sugar
- 5tsp water
- 1 egg white
- Icing
- 400g icing sugar
- 1 egg white
- food colouring
- 75g melted chocolate
- toasted nuts to decorate with
Instructions
Beat the butter and sugar together until white and fluffy.
Roast the nuts and chop them roughly.
Crush the biscuits into rough breadcrumbs
FOR THE MERINGUE
Put the sugar and water into a pan and dissolve over a low heat, then boil
Put the egg whites in a bowl and whisk until peaks from
Remove the pan form the heat and pour it slowly into the egg white mixture using blender on low speed.
Fold meringue into the butter cream followed by the nuts, biscuits, vanilla essence, glaced cherries and buttermilk
Mix everything together and form a sandcastle shape on a plate
THE ICING
Put the egg whites in a bowl and whisk lightly
add the icing sugar a little at a time whisking well
Spread it over the prinjolata
Decorate by drizzling colour and sticking nuts all over the side
Drizzle melted chocolate
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