At one potluck dinner, I went all the way and made Nigella's chocolate truffle desi style and it was just as good. Ofcourse, it had to be! Anything with chocolate and whipped cream better be sinfully tasty.
Its a little tedious and you might have a lot of cleaning up to do after its ready, but its worth all the trouble you take.
This truffle is working woman friendly you can even choose to just assemble everything and serve it up.
Be ready with -
1. 2 small chocolate sponge cakes [buy it or bake it]
2. Small carton of Cranberry juice
3. Blue berry jam or strawberry jam [as desi as I might get, I would avoid the Kissan jams as they don't have the fruit portions] So you can use Mapro or any kind of preserve
4. Whipped cream - 4-5 small cartons [each is about 200ml]
5. Fresh strawberries - 250gms & pitted cherries 10-15
6. Chocolate bar [sweet or bitter]
7. Custard of thick consistency [home made from scratch with eggs or the packed powder kind]
8. Chopped walnuts - 12-15
Time to assemble -
You will need a HUGE, WIDE bowl.
Slice the sponge cake into 4 layers to give you thin circular pieces.
Layer half of this on your wide dessert bowl.
After layering, pour in the cranberry juice.
Now layer the remaining cake pieces and spread the strawberry or blueberry preserve
After doing this, pour in a layer custard.
After the custard, line the bowl with fresh strawberries and some pitted cherries and the walnuts.
Finally smother the cake with whipped cream and grate the chocolate bar generously.
Place the bowl in the fridge. Its best when all the layers set in and are seen when you carry the dessert bowl to your friends.
Since this is a sinful cake, I believe, one must commit the whole sin and go that extra mile in loading it with calories :)
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