Strawberry & gin Eton mess

Make summer entertaining easy with this grown-up take on the classic British pud. Strawberries look and taste great here, but you can use any seasonal berries.

Ingreadient

• 3 tbsp Chase Pink Grapefruit & Pomelo Gin (or any other citrus-flavoured gin)
• 3 tbsp icing sugar
• 230g strawberries, hulled and roughly chopped
• 300ml Essential Double Cream
• 250g Essential Low Fat Greek Style Yogurt
• 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
• 4 Cooks' Ingredients Meringue Nest
• A few small mint leaves, to serve

Step by step

1. Mix 2 tbsp gin and 1 tbsp icing sugar in a non-metallic mixing bowl. Add the strawberries and leave to macerate for 30 minutes.
2. In a large mixing bowl, combine the cream, yogurt, vanilla and remaining 2 tbsp icing sugar. Whisk until thickened. Just before the cream mixture reaches soft peaks, stir through the remaining 1 tbsp gin. Crumble in the meringue nests and stir together.
3. Spoon equal amounts of the meringue-cream into 4 glasses or bowls and top with a layer of the strawberries. Layer up more meringue-cream and fruit, and scatter with mint leaves to serve.