FESTIVE FRUIT SALAD WITH BRANDY SNAP
FESTIVE FRUIT SALAD WITH BRANDY SNAP
FESTIVE FRUIT SALAD WITH BRANDY SNAP

Ingredients
  • 60g/2¼oz butter
  • plus extra for greasing
  • 2 tbsp caster sugar
  • 2 heaped tbsp golden syrup
  • 4 tbsp plain flour
  • 1 tsp ground ginger
  • 1 tsp brandy
  • 2 tbsp chopped pistachios
  • 1 orange
  • juice only
  • 1 lime
  • juice only
  • 1 lemon
  • juice only
  • 1 mango
  • cut into cubes
  • 4 clementines
  • separated into segments
  • 1 pomegranate
  • seeds only
  • 6 cape gooseberries (physalis)
Directions
  • Preheat the oven to 150C/300F/Gas 2. Grease two baking trays with butter.
  • For the brandy snaps
  • melt the butter with the sugar and golden syrup in a saucepan. As soon as it starts to bubble
  • add the flour
  • ginger
  • brandy and pistachios and stir until well combined.
  • Using a teaspoon
  • place six walnut-sized blobs of the mixture onto the buttered baking tray. No need to flatten
  • as they will spread naturally.
  • Bake for 10-12 minutes until golden-brown. Leave to cool on the baking tray for five minutes
  • and then lift them off with a palette knife. Lay them on a rolling pin to set.
  • For the fruit salad
  • combine the orange
  • lime and lemon juice in a large bowl.
  • Add the mango and the clementines
  • scatter over the pomegranate seeds and serve with the brandy snaps and a few physalis.