Christmas bombe | MummyPages.ie

Ingredients

• 400g good-quality chocolate Swiss roll (jumbo size)
• 390g jar of cherries in kirsch-flavoured syrup
• 180g caster sugar
• 75ml water
• 2 large egg whites
• 300ml double cream
• 50g preserved stem ginger in syrup, chopped, plus 1tbsp syrup from the jar
• 1tbsp Grand Marnier or Cointreau
• 50g chopped mixed glace fruit
• 30g marron glace (optional), chopped
• 30g shelled pistachio nuts, toasted and roughly chopped
• few redcurrant sprigs, to finish (optional)
• Icing sugar to dust (optional)