Recipe: Cognac berries with amaretti cream

Cognac berries with amaretti and cream. Photo / Babiche Martens

Serves 4

300g blueberries
2 Tbs cognac
1 fresh vanilla pod
1/2 cup cream
3 amaretti biscuits

1 Put the blueberries into a container then pour over the cognac. Leave to steep for at least 1 hour.

2 Split the vanilla and scrape the seeds into a bowl. Reserve the pod, let it dry out and it can be used to flavour future dishes. Popping it into the sugar jar is always a goodie.

3 Pour in the cream and whip with the vanilla.

4 Crush the amaretti biscuits with your hands, or use a rolling pin.

5 Spoon the berries and juice into glasses then top with the cream and finish with amaretti biscuits.