Desserts Valentine's Day - Sharing Chocolate and Ginger Heart
Serves : 2
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 4 hours - overnight
Ingredients
- 70g cream cheese
- 200ml double cream
- 35g icing sugar
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- 70g 70% dark chocolate, roughly chopped
- 9 ginger nut biscuits
- 1 tbsp sour cream
- 50g mixed berries
- Few sprigs of Mint
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Method
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Tip the chocolate into a heatproof bowl and microwave on high for 1 minute until just melted. Stir until smooth then set aside.
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Tip the cream cheese, double cream, icing sugar and vanilla into bowl and beat with an electric whisk until smooth and thickened.
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Add the melted chocolate and mix until combined and thickened.
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Take a cake plate and spoon a quarter of the chocolate cream over the top and spread out to make a small heart shape, about the size of 3 ginger nut biscuits.
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Place 3 biscuits in the centre of the cream in a heart, just so they stick out over the edge of the cream slightly.
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Add another quarter of the cream and spread over the biscuits.
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Repeat with the layers of biscuits placing them directly above each other so you keep the heart shape, and chocolate cream until you finish on a layer of cream.
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Spread the remaining cream around the edge to hide the biscuits.
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Place in the fridge for at least 4 hours, preferably overnight or even for 24 hours so that the biscuits soften.
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Spread the sour cream over the top then decorate with the berries and mint.
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This will keep in the fridge for up to 3 days and the biscuits will soften as it sits there.
