Floating Island

Ingredients

• 3 cups milk
• 4-5 tablespoons fresh cream
• 4 eggs yolks
• 1½ cups castor sugar 
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla essence
• Strawberry syrup for serving 
• Slit strawberries for garnishing
• Toasted almond slivers for sprinkling
• Fresh mint leaves for garnishing

Method

1. Heat milk in a deep non-stick pan. Add cream, mix and bring the mixture to boil. 
2. Separate egg yolks and whites in individual bowls.
3. Add castor sugar and vanilla essence to egg yolks and whisk till 2 tablespoons castor sugar melts. Add boiling milk gradually and whisk well. 
4. Add the milk mixture into the same pan and let it simmer. 
5. To prepare meringue, whisk the egg whites using an electric beater till light and fluffy. Add remaining castor sugar and whisk well. 
6. Dip 2 spoons in hot milk mixture and drop in quenelles of meringue in the milk mixture and cook for 2-3 minutes. 
7. Put some strawberry syrup in a serving glass and pour the milk mixture with egg white quenelles. 
8. Place a slit strawberry on the rim of the glass. Sprinkle some almond slivers and serve garnished with mint leaves.