White Chocolate and Peach Trifle
A delicious white chocolate and peach trifle, created by Julie Sharp and Beverley Dunkley from the UK Chocolate Academy
Ingredients
- 4 peaches, stoned
- 50 ml orange juice
- 250 ml stock syrup
- Small handful lemon verbena leaves
- 2.5 leaves of gelatine
- 70 ml white wine
- 70 ml peach schnapps
- 250 g double cream
- 1vanilla pod, scraped
- 500 g Callebaut Velvet CHW-R2241NV-553 white chocolate
- 2 peaches, cored and diced neatly
- 200 g lemon sponge
Instructions
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Peach and lemon verbena compote
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Ingredients
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4 peaches, stoned
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50ml orange juice
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50ml stock syrup
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Small handful lemon verbena leaves
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Method
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1. Make a coulis. Blitz two of the peaches with the orange juice, stock syrup and verbena leaves until smooth.
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2. Strain through a muslin cloth. Avoid pushing the ingredients through to obtain a clear liquid.
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3. Cut the remaining peaches into a neat dice and fold through the peach coulis.
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Peach wine Jelly
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Ingredients
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2,5 leaves of gelatine
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200ml stock syrup
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70ml white wine
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70ml peach schnapps
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Method
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1. Soften the gelatine leaves in cold water.
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2. Bring the stock syrup to the boil, take off the heat and whisk in the softened gelatine.
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3. Stir in the white wine and peach Archers and allow to cool.
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White Chocolate and vanilla cream
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Ingredients
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250g double cream
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1 vanilla pod, scraped
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500g Callebaut Velvet CHW-R2241NV-553 white chocolate
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Method
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1. Bring the cream and vanilla pod to the boil.
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2. Take off the heat, add in the white chocolate and emulsify.
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3. Leave to set overnight.
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Assembling the trifle
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Ingredients
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2 peaches, cored and diced neatly
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200g lemon sponge
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Method
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1. Spoon the peach wine jelly into the base of four Martini glasses and add the fresh peach dice. Allow to set.
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2. Whisk the white chocolate cream until a good spreadable consistency is achieved, taking care not to over-whip.
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3. Pipe a thin layer of the white chocolate cream into the glasses.
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4. Cut the lemon cake into small dice and fold through the peach and lemon verbena compote.
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5. Place a layer of the compote on top of the white chocolate cream.
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6. Finish with white chocolate cream and smooth flat.
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