Fruit Baskets Recipe

Ingredients :

125g plain flour

125g icing sugar

3 egg whites

few drops of orange extract

25g flaked almonds

4 oranges, for moulds

Pineapple sauce:

2 slices of pineapple, peeled, cored and chopped

125ml pineapple juice

1-2 drops yellow food coloring

125ml natural yogurt

Filling and decoration:

375g seasonal fruit

1 tbsp icing sugar, sifted

1. Sift the flour and icing sugar into a bowl, then beat in the egg whites until smooth.
2. Cover and eave to stand for 1-2 hours, stir in the orange extract and almonds.
3. Mark four 18cm circles on silicone paper and spread out on 2 baking sheets.
4. Spread the batter in the marked circles, bake in oven, 350F, gas mark 4, 8 minutes until pale golden.
5. While the biscuits are cooking, prepare 4 oranges for moulds.
6. Cut a fine slice off each, so that they stand up well, and grease lightly with oil.
7. Allow the cooked biscuits to cool for 1 minute, then ease them off the baking sheets and mould over the prepared oranges.
8. To make the pineapple sauce, place the pineapple, juice and yellow food coloring in a small saucepan and simmer for 2 minutes.
9. Transfer to a food processor or blender and work to a puree.
10. Chill, then mix in the yogurt.
11. To serve, place each biscuit basket on a pool of pineapple sauce on a dessert plate.
12. fill the baskets with seasonal fruit and dust with icing sugar.

Serves 4

Use whatever fresh seasonal fruit you wish to fill these little biscuit baskets. Blueberries and sliced fresh figs are a good choice, but any combination of small or sliced fruits, such as strawberries, raspberries or green grapes, can be used. Arrange the fruit in the baskets just before serving them.

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