Apple, Apricot and Amaretti Layer dessert
Apple, Apricot and Amaretti Layer dessert
 Prep Time ~ 30 mins | Cooking Time ~ 20 mins |
 Approx Cost ~ £3 |  Difficulty ~ Easy |
 Freeze ~ No |  Serves ~ 4 |
Tip ~If you do not have glass dessert dishes, use short whisky glasses instead.
Ingredients
500g / 1lb 2oz apples, peeled, cored and sliced
225g / 8oz ready soaked apricots, roughly chopped
2 tablespoons Amaretto liqueur
125g / 4 ½ oz amaretti biscuits, crushed
250g / 9oz fromage frais
Method
- Place the apples and apricots in a pan and add 100ml / 3 ½ floz water. Cook gently until the apples are pulpy and apricots have softened.
- Allow to cool and then place in a food processor and process to a rough puree. Stir in the amaretto liqueur.
- Put a layer of crushed amaretti biscuits in the base of each of four dessert glasses. Using half the fruit puree put an equal layer in each glass.
- Reserve 4 dessertspoonfuls of the fromage frais, and then divide the rest equally between the glasses.
- Reserve 1 tablespoon of the crushed biscuits and layer the rest equally over the fromage frais.
- Divide the fruit puree between the glasses to create the last layer.
- Place a dessertspoon of the fromage frais in the centre of each and sprinkle with the last of the amaretti biscuits.
- Chill the dessert before serving.