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Blackcurrant fool with Lavender shortbread

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Ingredients Serves 4 200g blackcurrants 100g Belvoir Organic Blackcurrant Cordial 20g lavender sugar 150g custard sauce 150g Greek yoghurt 100g whipped double cream For the shortbread 110g butter (room temperature) 50g lavender sugar 175g plain flour method Firstly make the shortbread: Cream together the butter and sugar and stir in the flour. Mix to a dough and roll out to approx 1/4” thick. Cut out the shortbread rounds using approx 6 cm fluted cutter and bake in a preheated oven for 160°C for approx 15 mins until pale golden in colour To make the fool: Bring to the boil and simmer for 4 minutes the blackcurrants, Belvoir Organic Blackcurrant Cordial and lavender sugar. Leave the compote to cool. Mix the custard and Greek yoghurt together. Fold in the whipped cream. Add 2 tablespoons of the cooking liqueur from the blackcurrants. To Stack the dessert: Layer the components together starting with a shortbread biscuit followed by a tablespoon of fool and a spoonful of blackcurrant compo