Fans of Eton mess will love this Eton Mess Semifreddo! Summer should be the season for fresh fruit and cold treats. Sadly the British summer often doesn’t cooperate, giving us the same grey clouds and drizzly days we get in other seasons. Still it’s our summer and we make the best of it, which brings me to the best of British classics, Eton Mess. Admittedly, I messed with the original quite a bit. Traditionally Eton Mess is a combination of fresh strawberries, cream and meringue pieces artfully thrown together. But there are plenty of traditional recipes on the internet, so why write another one! Also, blackberries are fantastic to experiment with and bring something really special to a dessert like this one. We happen to live a short walk away from a copious amount of wild blackberry bushes and we try to take advantage of them every August. The proof is in all the blackberry recipes on my blog! We try to make the most of blackberry season and gather enough to keep us going all year long. They freeze very well and are a great addition to so many desserts and drinks. Blackberries inspired me to make my own version of the classic Eton mess. Although the ingredients are different, it has the same mix of creamy, sweet and summer freshness of the original recipe.
Ice cream Eton mess
This Blackberry and Pistachio Ice Cream Eton Mess is a quick and beautiful dessert idea for that special dinner that calls for a dessert but you just have no time to pull it off! It’s delicious and impressive but essentially it is a fancy Ice Cream Sunday. I made my own pistachio ice cream but feel free to use a store bought version. What I absolutely love about Eton Mess is how easy it is to prepare since all the ingredients can be bought. All you have to do is to assemble before serving or better yet present it as a buffet, so everybody can build their own! Just make sure you don’t make it in advance. If the dessert sits too long the meringue pieces will lose their crunch, so best to assemble right before eating.
Pistachio ice cream
Pistachio ice cream is one of my families favourite flavours. We discovered it on one of our trips to Italy and now buy it every chance we get. Sadly it is never quite as amazing outside of Italy. Every other time we tried pistachio ice cream it looked the part but its cloying sweet and artificial taste was only sub par. It turns out it’s not very easy to extract as much flavour from pistachios as Italians seemed to master, so the only way is to cheat. This ice cream recipe is quite possibly the easiest you can find. The Eton mess recipe is for two people, but you will have a lot of the pistachio ice cream left over. Store any extra ice cream in an air tight container in your freezer.
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