An easy standby dessert to keep in your freezer!

Cheats’ Icecream Sponge Terrine

Serves 8. Prep time: 15 mins. Set time: 4 hours

Click the link to watch a video of Tina making the terrine.

Slice and serve and tell everyone it took you hours to make! I love having a frozen dessert in the freezer on standby. This is one to make when you are short of time. Take the ice cream out of the freezer 20 minutes before you go to make the terrine and then sit back and claim all the glory.

1 small rectangular trifle sponge

⅓ cup raspberry jam

750 ml strawberry ice cream, softened

750 ml vanilla ice cream, softened

Grease/spray a loaf tin, and line with cling film. Trim the brown top and bottom from the sponge and slice through horizontally to give you two 1.5cm thick slices. Cut two rectangles to fit the middle and top of your loaf tin and spread each piece liberally with raspberry jam.

Spread the softened vanilla ice cream as evenly as possible in the base of the loaf tin. Place a slice of sponge jam-side down onto the ice cream.

Spread the softened strawberry ice cream on top of the sponge and top with final sponge layer, jam-side down again. Cover with cling film and freeze at least 4 hours.

Before serving, dunk the outside of tin carefully in hot water very briefly and turn out onto serving platter using the cling film to help ease it out.

Garnish with your choice of diced Turkish delight, fresh berries, dried raspberry powder, shredded basil, edible flowers or toasted sliced almonds.

TIPS

• Will keep in the freezer for up to 4 weeks well sealed.

• Feel free to substitute ice cream flavours.