Macerated strawberries with amaretti cream
Serves: 4
Prep time: 15 minsTotal time: 
Recipe photograph by Kris Kirkham
Macerated strawberries with amaretti cream
Recipe by Sarah Cook
A five-ingredient pudding that takes only minutes to assemble, but the end result is so much more than the sum of its parts. Summery yet indulgent, the amaretti cream works just as well with peaches, nectarines or figs
Serves: 4
Prep time: 15 minsTotal time: 
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Nutritional information (per serving)
Calories
608Kcal
Fat
51gr
Saturates
29gr
Carbs
28gr
Sugars
28gr
Fibre
5gr
Protein
6gr
Salt
0.1gr
Sarah Cook
Sarah, a former food editor, has now been writing and styling recipes for over 10 years. Born in NZ, to Irish-English immigrants, and married to a Polish-Scot, her food is as diverse as her family, with a particular passion for baking mash-ups.
Sarah Cook
Sarah, a former food editor, has now been writing and styling recipes for over 10 years. Born in NZ, to Irish-English immigrants, and married to a Polish-Scot, her food is as diverse as her family, with a particular passion for baking mash-ups.
Ingredients
- 400g strawberries, hulled and sliced
- zest from ½ an orange
- 6 tsp icing sugar
- 100g crunchy amaretti biscuits (we used Doria)
- 450ml whipping cream
Step by step
Get ahead
You can make the amaretti cream a few hours ahead, but only whip it loosely, as it’ll stiffen more as it chills. The strawberries are best prepared 1-2 hours ahead.
- Put the sliced strawberries in a bowl with the orange zest then sift over 4 teaspoons of icing sugar. Stir gently so you don’t bash up the strawberries too much and leave to macerate in the fridge for at least 45 minutes, or up to 3 hours (in which case, remove from the fridge 30 minutes before serving).
- Roughly crush 75g of the amaretti biscuits between your hands, into a bowl. Add the cream and 2 teaspoons of icing sugar and whisk until it forms soft peaks.
- To serve, divide the strawberries and any syrupy juices among four bowls. Top with good spoonfuls of the cream, then crumble the rest of the amaretti biscuits over the top of each bowl.
