Boodle's Orange Fool

Total Time: 4 hrs Preparation Time: 2 hrs Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 4 -6 single trifle sponge cakes, cut into 1 cm slices
• 2 oranges, juice and zest of
• 1 lemon, juice and zest of
• 25 -50 g sugar
• 300 ml double cream
• orange slices (to decorate) or orange section (to decorate)

Recipe

• 1 use the sponge slices to line the bottom and halfway up the sides of a deep serving dish or bowl.
• 2 mix the orange and lemon zests and juices with the sugar and stir until the sugar is dissolved.
• 3 in another bowl, whip the cream until it just starts to thicken, then slowly add the sweetened fruit juice, whipping the cream as you do so.
• 4 whip until the cream is light and thickened and all the juice absorbed.
• 5 pour the mixture over the sponge and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, longer if possible, so that the juice can soak into the sponge and the cream thicken serve decorated with segments or slices of fresh orange.