Dessert Recipes - Zuppa di Inglese

Ingredients

• 4 eggs

• 50 g/2 oz/1/4 cup caster (superfine) sugar

• 30 ml/2 tbsp rice flour

• 900 ml/3 3/4 cups milk

• Grated rind and juice of 1 orange

• 50 g/2 oz/1/2 cup plain (semi-sweet) chocolate

• 1 slab plain cake, thinly sliced

• 60 ml/4 tbsp medium dry sherry, or half sherry and half kirsch

• Grated chocolate

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Method:

1. Whisk together the eggs and sugar in a saucepan. Blend the rice flour with a little of the milk.

2. Stir in the remaining milk and add to the saucepan with the orange rind.

3. Bring to the boil slowly over a gentle heat, stirring all the time until thickened. Do not boil rapidly or the mixture will curdle.

4. Pour half the custard into a separate bowl. Melt the chocolate in a bowl in the microwave or over a pan of hot water and stir into the saucepan of custard.

5. Put a layer of one-third of the cake in the base of a round glass serving dish.

6. Mix the orange juice and sherry together and drizzle a third over the cake. Spoon over a third of the plain custard then a third of the chocolate custard.

7. Repeat these layers, finishing with a layer of chocolate custard. Cover and chill for several hours until set. Sprinkle with grated chocolate before serving.