Recipe - Blackberry Fool

It's been very difficult to choose a recipe of the month for September. There is so much in season and I found it hard to choose between two of my favorites, blackberries and mushrooms. In the end I plumped for blackberries as there seems to be a never-ending supply of them at the moment. After much experimenting I came up with two mouthwatering desserts, both different and both deserving of the September slot. The solution was to give one to Organic Yum-Yum and one to the recipe of the month. So for blog readers here's my Blackberry Fool.

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Ingredients

• 300g Blackberries
• 75g Sugar
• 125ml Cream
• 50g Marscapone

Method

• Reserve a handful of berries for the garnish and puree the rest with the sugar in a blender until smooth.
• Push the mixture through a sieve to remove all the seeds
• Whip the cream until it forms soft peaks, take care not to over-whip.
• Soften the Marscapone and whip into the cream, again take care not to over-whip, if you find the mixture is too thick add some extra cream.
• Stir in the blackberry puree mixture, reserving approximately a third of it for garnish.
• Place a few blackberries in the base of 4 wine glasses, layer in the cream mixture keeping a little back for decoration.
• Top with the left over puree.
• Place a dollop of the cream mixture to the top of the puree and top with the rest of the blackberries.
• Refrigerate for at least two hours.