Lemon Meringue Parfait
Lemon Meringue Parfait...easy, and amazing. Impressive and a little bit special.
A semifreddo is an Italian dessert that translates to "half cold," typically made from a mixture of whipped cream, sugar, and egg whites, then frozen. Its texture is similar to a frozen mousse, softer and creamier than ice cream.
In this dessert I created cooked meringues first, then they are folded through whipped cream for texture. Toasted almonds would also be amazing in this recipe, folded in with the meringue.
It is pretty impressive, super easy to make and looks amazing if you layer it into dessert glasses with fruit and more lemon butter. I also used some Pound Cake cut into cubes that I have had lurking in my freezer for a wee while. (6 months!) But I did not add that into the recipe, though you certainly could. That would kind of make it like Creamy Lemon Dessert, another similar version that is just one big bowl of family happiness.
Make sure you check out our multitude of other meringue based desserts...we have the OG and best meringue recipes for Thermomix in the world. (All the others are copies of us!)
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Chocolate Cinnamon Swiss Meringues
Thermomix Strawberry Meringue Cake
Need
- 1/2 Batch Mini Meringues ready to go Recipe
- 400 Milliliters cream BUY
- 100 Grams Lemon Butter plus some more Recipe
- fresh berries to serve
Do
- 1
Premake the meringues and lemon butter ahead of assembling this dessert.
- 2
Place cream into Thermomix bowl. Whip 20-30sec/Butterfly/speed 4 or until very soft peaks form.
- 3
Add lemon butter and stir through 3 sec/speed 3. Remove Butterfly.
- 4
Break up a few of the meringues and add to the cream. With the aid of the spatula, incorporate 10 sec/speed 3.
- 5
Divide between serving glasses and place into the freezer.
- 6
Serve with fresh berries or coulis or both!
- 7
Add a dollop of the lemon butter to each glass and finish with lemon zest, berries, mint leaves, more cream, more meringues. Whatever makes them look prettier. Raspberry or Passionfruit Coulis is also amazing!
Served with
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
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