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Gateau a la Caroline

Gateau a la Caroline

by carolmid
from Stourbridge

Recipe Story

This is the easiest dessert ever to serve at a dinner party! None of my dinner guests has ever realised what it consists of - and they imagine that I'm some kind of culinary goddess when they taste it.

Servings:

Serves 6-8

Level of difficulty:

Easy

Ingredients


300g Ginger Nut biscuits
500ml double cream
250ml sherry
Crystalised fruit and grated chocolate to garnish

Method


1. Dip ginger nut biscuits individually in the sherry and press together on a serving platter to form a log shape.
2. Cover with cling film and refrigerate for 1 hour.
3. Whip cream until stiff and spoon or pipe over the ginger and sherry log.
4. Decorate with crystalised fruit and grated chocolate.
5. Serve either immediately or chill for up to four hours.
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Kernowcook, 20 May 2007 2:38pm
Have often made a similar version. In my family we sandwich the ginger biscuits together with the whipped cream - with added brandy and then pipe or spread...
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