Floating Island

Ingredients list for Floating Island

• 3 cups Milk
• 4-5 tablespoons Fresh cream
• 4 Eggs
• 1½ cups + 2-3 tablespoons Castor sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons Vanilla essence
• to serve Strawberry syrup
• for garnishing Strawberries , slit
• for sprinkling Almonds , toasted and slivered
• for garnishing Fresh mint leaves

Method

1. Heat milk in a deep non-stick pan, add cream, mix and bring the mixture to boil.
2. Break the eggs, one by one, separate yolks from whites and put them in separate bowls.
3. Add castor sugar and vanilla essence to egg yolks and whisk with an electric beater till sugar melts. Add boiling milk mixture gradually and whisk well.
4. Pour this mixture back into the same pan and let it simmer to make custard.
5. To prepare meringue, add a few drops of lemon juice to the egg whites and whisk with an electric beater till light and fluffy. Add remaining castor sugar and whisk well.
6. Make quenelles of the meringue with 2 teaspoons and put into the simmering custard and cook for 2-3 minutes.
7. Put 1 tablespoon strawberry syrup in each serving glass and pour the milk mixture with egg white quenelles.
8. Place a slit strawberry on the rim of each glass, sprinkle some almond slivers and serve garnished with mint leaves.