(Dessert with strawberries & pastry cream - Our recipe)

Time: preparation: 30 minutes ........ plus pastry cream preparation ........ cooking: 20 minutes for the cream Plum cake or sherbets 250 g (8 1/2 oz) strawberries 300 g (10 1/2 oz) pastry cream Icing sugar Marsala White wine easy recipe

  Spoon measures are American spoons, that is standard cook's measuring spoons used in USA.
  The best plan is to regard 2 American teaspoons or tablespoons as 1 English teaspoon or tablespoon (eating spoons)

Prepare the pastry cream following our instructions.
Clean strawberries, wash under running water quickly, pat dry with absorbent kitchen paper and plunge them in white wine for few minutes. Then slice them and put apart.
Prepare your dessert. You can use plum cakes or sherbets (sponge biscuits). Half biscuits lengthways or slice plum cakes crossways. Arrange slices on the bottom of the deep dish in which you want to prepare the cake. Water down 4 tablespoons Marsala (Sicilian fortified wine) and soak the plum cake or sherbet slices with it. Cover with pastry cream and prepare another layer with the plum cakes or sherbets. Soak this layer too and cover with pastry cream. At this point sweeten the strawberries with icing sugar and arrange them on the surface of your dessert according to your fancy.
Chill for at least 1 hour before serving.
This is a do-ahead cake.

What's the right wine?
Our suggestion is: serving a sweet raisin wine after this dessert

If you want to combine this dish with other ones for a complete menu,
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