Iles Flotantes (floating islands)

For 6 people

For this tasty and beautiful dessert you need 3 things:

1. Crème anglaise
2. Caramelized almonds
3. Fresh meringues (baiser)

Crème anglaise

Ingredients:
4 eggs
80g sugar
1 vanilla pod
500ml milk
1/2 tee spoon black pepper

1st
Separate egg white and egg yolk and mix the egg yolk and the sugar (keep the egg white for later).

2nd
Extract the vanilla seeds from the vanilla pod. The but the milk in a pot, add vanilla seeds and pod and boil the milk.

3rd
Remove the vanilla pod and add then the milk slowly to the egg-yolk-sugar mix while stirring the mixture all the time.

4th
Put the mix in a clean pot and heat it at low temperature under constant stirring until the sauce is thick (5-10 minutes). Make sure the liquid does not boil or get too hot, then the egg „gets hard“.

5th
Put the sauce in the sauce in a bowl and put it into the fridge for minimum 4 hours to cool down. The more time you leave the crème anglaise in the fridge, the better the vanilla aroma can expand.

Caramelized almonds

Ingredients:
75g sugar
50g almond “leaves”

1st
Add sugar and water into a pot and heat until the liquid boils. Then add the almond “leaves”.

2nd
Cook until the mix gets golden-brown, then spread it on baking parchment. Be quick, it gets hard very quickly…;-)

3rd
After 5-10 min. the almonds rug is hard and you can break it into pieces

Meringues

Ingredients:
2 egg white
50g icing sugar
tee spoon lemon juice
a little salt

1st
Put water in a big pot and put it on the stove to boil.

2nd
Use about 2 egg-white that remain from the crème anglaise eggs and stir them until the mass gets „hard“. Continue stirring and slowly add the icing sugar, lemon juice and salt.

3rd
Take a big spoon and put „balls“ onto the boiling water. Let the sit there for a few minutes until they are hardening. Then take a ladle and put the meringues on baking parchment to dry and shrink for a few minutes

Final preparation

Take a dessert bowl (ideally made of glass), fill crème anglaise in it, put a meringue on it and then scatter caramelized almonds on top of it. Voila 🙂

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