Scotch Finger Cheat's No-Bake Pavlova

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Pavlova is Australia’s best-loved Christmas dessert for a very good reason. But if you haven’t had a pavlova fail, well, you’re not really trying!!🤣 No worries. You, a couple of tricks, and some Scotch Finger biscuits are going to get this solved, with a pavlova-ish dessert that will wow everyone at your table.

Servings:10
Occasion:Dessert, Entertaining
Cooking Time:8 mins
Preparation Time:25 mins

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Scotch Finger

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Ingredients

375g Scotch Finger biscuits
100g unsalted butter, melted
75g Copha, melted
4 egg whites
½ tsp cream of tartar
200g caster sugar
2 tsp vanilla paste
25g custard powder
250ml milk
½ cup raspberry sauce
2 cups mixed berries
1 cup mango slices and passionfruit pulp
4 Scotch Finger biscuits, broken into long shards
crumbled meringue and berry dust*, to garnish

Preparation

Step 1

Put the Scotch Finger biscuits into a food processor and pulse until a fine crumb forms. Add the butter and Copha, mix to combine, then press into a lightly-greased 22cm cake tin. Refrigerate until set.

Step 2

Put the egg whites and cream of tartar in the bowl of an electric mixer and beat until very soft peaks form, continue mixing on low speed.

Step 3

Meanwhile, combine the sugar and ½ cup water in a small saucepan and cook on high heat. Increase the egg whites to high, then add the syrup in a. steady stream, beating until cool. Mix in the vanilla.

Step 4

Combine the custard powder with ½ cup milk. Boil the remaining milk in a medium saucepan, pour over the custard, stir, then return to the saucepan and simmer until thickened. Gently fold into the meringue, then spoon into the Scotch Finger tart shell.

Step 5

Mix the raspberry sauce and berries, then fold into the meringue mixture. Top with mango, passionfruit and Scotch Finger biscuit shards. Decorate with crumbled meringue and berry dust.

Notes

Bite size meringues are available in the bakery aisle of most supermarkets. Berry dust in available in the fine food section of some supermarkets. Also sold as raspberry/strawberry/blackberry powder.