Pavlova wreath

Ingredients

  • 180 g cherries
  • edible gold dust to coat berries
  • 160 g blackberries
  • 125 g raspberries
  • 1/2 cup Woolworths fresh custard with vanilla bean seeds
  • 2 tbsp icing sugar
  • 1 cup double thick cream
  • 3 Woolworths mince pies, finely chopped
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 tsp corn flour
  • 1 tsp vinegar
  • 270 g caster sugar
  • 6 free range egg whites

Woolworths is committed to sustainability via our good business journey. Seasonal (and other) products might not always be in stock.

Cooking Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 130°C. Draw a circle with a 25cm diameter on silicone paper.
  2. Use an electric mixer to whisk egg whites in a clean dry bowl until soft peaks form. Gradually add sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating well after each addition, until meringue is thick and glossy and sugar dissolved. Rub a little meringue between fingers. If still "gritty" with sugar, continue to whisk until sugar dissolves. Add corn flour, vinegar and 1 tsp vanilla and whisk until just combined. Add the chopped mince pies and fold into the mixture.
  3. Spoon meringue onto the silicone paper that’s been placed on a tray, shaping a wreath leaving a hole in the center. Allow the mound of the mixture to be rough with jagged edges.
  4. Place the tray with the wreath into the oven to slowly cook for 1 and a half hours, once done open the oven door slight and turn off the oven, allowing the Pavlova  wreath to cool. Before removing from the paper and placing on a serving dish.
  5. For the custard cream: Whip the cream with the icing sugar and 1 tsp vanilla until thick before adding the custard and stirring through.
  6. Add the raspberries and blackberries to a mixing bowl and add some gold edible dust before gently swirling the bowl to coat the berries in the gold dust.
  7. Add the custard to the cooled wreath before gilding with the golden berries and finally top with the cherries.