This Christmas treat was inaugurated by my mother
years and years ago. My version is a bit
different but equally indulgent.
Ingredients:
Packet of Chocolate Chip biscuits (cookies)
1 cup of cream (double)
2 tblsp icing sugar (powdered sugar)
200g or so of mascarpone
Cherry Brandy (you could substitute brandy and
cherry essence)
Vanilla essence
Chocolate for decoration
Method:
Whip the cream and the icing sugar with the vanilla
essence – when softly whipped mix in the mascarpone. My mother's version just used cream which was
nice but stayed really soft even after being in the fridge. The mascarpone meant that the coating was a
bit set.
Dip your biscuits into cherry brandy. This is the only bit of the log that is at
all tricky. You want to dip each one for
long enough that it takes up the brandy but not so long that it goes
mushy. I erred on the shorter side which
was a bit of a mistake – given that my biscuits were quite thick ones.
You then stick each biscuit to each other with your
cream mixture – I did mine vertically before putting it onto its side – this is
how you form the log.
Then cover the outside of the log with the rest of
the cream mixture and ut your chocolate decorations on. Traditionally we would have just had grated
chocolate but I saw these fabulous little stars and bought them (and they were
expensive too)
You can't serve this log straight away – it needs
at least 4 hours in the fridge for the cherry brandy to work its way through
the biscuits.
Not diet food but great as a Christmas treat.
PS If you want
to make a kid friendly version of this you could use cherry juice/ essence or
dilute the cherry brandy with water.
That sounds like such a great Christmas treat!
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