Gooseberry Fool

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This gorgeous gooseberry fool recipe balances the creamiest whipped fool with tart and delicious gooseberries for a fabulous dessert that no one can resist.

Servings:

Author: Helen Best-Shaw

Prep Time2 10

Cook Time10

Ingredients

For the compote

200 g gooseberries
30 g sugar - caster or granulated, white or golden

For the fool

150 g double (heavy) cream
150 g Greek yogurt
1 tbsp icing (powdered) sugar

Instructions

Top, tail and wash the gooseberries. Heat gently in a saucepan with the sugar and a splash of water until the sugar has dissolved formed a syrup and the fruit is tender.
Remove the compote from the heat and allow to cool.
Put the cream, yogurt and icing sugar in a bowl. Gently whip together. The mixture should remain soft.
Add ¾ of the cooled compote to the the fool mixture, leaving out most of the juice. Fold in gently until well combined.
Transfer to serving glasses using a jam funnel for a neat finish. Top with the remaining compote and chill before serving.

Notes

Storage

This gooseberry fool recipe is best made and served the same day. You can keep it overnight in the fridge but the texture may suffer and it may start to separate.

Fridge – Keep in the fridge for a few hours.

Freezer – Gooseberry fool is not suitable for freezing. You can make the compote in advance and freeze it, making up the fool when gooseberries are not in season.

Hints and tips

If you use red dessert gooseberries you will need less sugar. Reduce the sugar in both the cream mixture and the compote rather than reducing one or the other too drastically. You need some sugar to form a syrup in the compote and stabilise the cream mix.

Using a jam funnel to fill your serving glasses makes a real difference, giving a professional finish.

This recipe is very adaptable. You can add more or leave out up to 20% of any of the ingredients, adjusting to taste. For a very rich and traditional fool use all cream instead of a cream and yogurt mix.

• Please note that the nutrition information provided below is approximate and meant as a guideline only.

• Unless stated otherwise cup conversions have been made with an online tool. For accuracy please check with your favoured conversion tool. We recommend buying inexpensive digital kitchen scales.