Strawberries In Cointreau

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• 500 g strawberries (2 punnets)
• 2 -3 passion fruit
• cointreau liqueur, to taste
• 1/2-1 tablespoon icing sugar
• 1 -2 teaspoon arrowroot

Recipe

• 1 hull and halve strawberries, leaving about 8 whole for pavlova decoration, and put into a medium bowl; scoop passionfuit into bowl; add cointreau to taste & sugar and chill for an hour or two.
• 2 before topping pavlova with strawberries and passionfruit, drain juice from the fruit, being careful not to lose any of the passionfruit pulp; taste and add more cointreau and sugar if necessary.
• 3 thicken the juice with arrowroot over a low heat to make a pouring sauce, not too thick as it will thicken as it chills - amount of arrowroot needed depends on how much juice you have from the strawberries.
• 4 after adding cream to pavlova, top with the strawberries, both sliced and whole (leave leaves on whole strawberries) and pour over the sauce.