Dessert · Do-ahead · Fruit

Passion fruit possets


This has got to be the world’s easiest and exotic dessert!
Your guests will think you’ve slaved away making it, so go along with them.
Do look up my lemon and lime posset too, it’s a killer. This one is the tropical version for the passion fruit season.

Serves 4 people

1/4 cup passion fruit juice. (Do this by pushing the passion fruit pulp through a sieve allowing the juice to come through, and discarding the seeds.)
16 oz heavy cream
3/4 cup granulated sugar
2 tbsp fresh lime juice

Pour the cream and sugar into a saucepan and bring to the boil over medium-high heat, stirring, until the sugar dissolves.
Lower the heat to medium-low and simmer for another 3-5 minutes, stirring and taking care not to let it boil over.
Remove from the heat and stir in the passion fruit and lime juices. let it sit for 10 minutes then divide the mixture between 4 glass dishes or ramekins.
Cover the dishes with plastic wrap and chill in the fridge for at least an hour or overnight.
Before serving you can garnish them with some passionfruit pulp sweetened with sugar or some passion fruit ice cream to really go over the top!

Dessert · Do-ahead · Holiday Food

Ginger, passionfruit trifle

I am a huge fan of trifle, and usually stick to a very boozy traditional one, but this one from Nigella Lawson caught my eye and you can see why. Another easy showstopper dessert!

Serves 10

About 18-20 oz store-bought sponge or pound cake or savoiardi cookies
About 4-6 oz ginger wine (I use Stones Ginger Wine, available in most wine stores)
About 18 -20 oz heavy whipping cream
4 tsp confectioners sugar (icing sugar)
8 passion fruit

Slice or break the sponge into pieces and arrange half of them in a shallow dish or stand, then pour half the ginger wine over them. Mound up the remaining half of the sponge or cookie pieces and pour the remaining wine on top
* I pour in more than the stated amount of ginger wine as I like my trifle boozy and gingery!

Whip the cream with the confectioners sugar (icing sugar) until it’s firm but not too stiff; you want soft peaks.

Scoop the insides of 2 passionfruit into the bowl of cream and fold in before mounding the cream floppily over the soused sponges.

Scoop out the remaining 6 passion fruit onto the white pile of cream s that it is doused and dribbling with the black seeds and fragrant golden pulp