Use it up - Advocaat

Tiffany_Aching

The Advocaat that has been sitting in the fridge since Christmas is now starting to lurk. There is a good half a bottle left but nobody wants it. I bought it for Snowballs, which were much more inviting in the run up to Christmas than they are now, in the cold, dank, drizzle of January! I have no idea what else I can do with it!

So, any ideas on ways that I can use it up? Can you make some kind of custard out of it or maybe a cake? Any other ideas that will definitely work? I'm on a quite tight budget and can't afford to waste ingredients experimenting, but neither can I afford to watch half a bottle of Advocaat go to waste.

Butterfly_Brain

ADVOCAAT DESSERT CAKE

6oz plain flour (SR should do without the baking powder)
1 rounded teaspoon baking powder
6oz soft butter
6oz caster sugar
4 eggs - saparated
8 fluid ounces advocaat

Oven 180C Fan 170 - 8" sponge tin

Grease and then flour the tin
Mix flour and baking powder
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, beat in the yolks.
Then beat in two thirds of the advocaat with a tablespoon of the flour.
Whisk the whites until firm - not as stiff as for meringues.
With the remaining advocaat and flour fold in the egg whites.
Put mix in tin and bake for approx. 1 hour.

Advocaat Ice Cream

This freezes pretty hard, so get it out the freezer a little while before you want to eat.

• 300ml (1 ½ cups) double cream
• 300ml (1 ½ cups) single cream
• 5 tbsp white sugar
• 175ml (¾ cup) Advocaat

1. Beat the double cream until it forms soft peaks, then add the single cream and sugar, beating until it again retains its shape. Add the Advocaat and fold in very gently. Transfer to glasses or a plastic mould, splash a little more Advocaat on the top, and freeze.

Or you can just simply pour it over vanilla ice cream

Callie22

Nigella mixes it with whipped cream to make an eggnog cream to serve with a hot pudding - holiday hotcake with eggnog cream.

Also, this ginger syllabub is lovely.

jackyann

It will cheer up any creamy / custardy / sweet dish. But it keeps for ages I believe - I "inherited" a bottle from my parents that had sat around for ages, certainly not in the fridge!
Of course, you must check what the bottle says, but I just kept mine until I had occasion to make something special with it (and no-one died!) so personally I'd keep it for next Xmas!
Usual disclaimers apply of course!

katkin

I wonder if you can make an Advocaat cheesecake, as you would a Baileys one.

On my that would be scrumptious!

Tiffany_Aching

Wow, some fantastic ideas - thank you all so much for taking the time to reply.

It all sounds so good that I can't decide what to try first! I'm starting to think that I don't have enough leftovers!

It says keep for six months on the bottle and I'm not sure about keeping it until next Christmas jackyann, lol! A few years ago I found a bottle that had been lurking at the back of a cupboard for over a year and it was kind of lumpy and nasty looking - hence why I now keep it in the fridge. It did put me off Advocaat for a while!

Thanks again, everyone

PasturesNew

I loved snowballs - and used to make magnificent ones. However, there is a limit to how many you can drink over, say, Xmas - which is about 3-4.

I stopped buying it as then my dad'd nag me about when I was going to use it up ... and my head was thinking "er, next Xmas".

I wonder if you could make egg nog fudge - probably can.

Edit: I just googled it - lots of recipes.