Difficulty rating: Little Women
Deliciousness rating: NEWT
They ate in the zoo restaurant and when Dudley had a tantrum because his knickerbocker glory wasn’t big enough, Uncle Vernon bought him another one and Harry was allowed to finish the first (Rowling UK 24-25, US 26).
DUDLEY DURSLEY’S KNICKERBOCKER GLORY
Adapted from BBC Good Food’s recipe
Ingredients:
- 2 pints of Ben and Jerry’s vanilla ice cream
- Peach layer
- 3-4 large peaches
- 75g golden caster sugar, plus 1 tbsp for coulis
- Large basil leaves
- 75 ml Aquavit
- Raspberry coulis:
- 250-300g fresh raspberries
- 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 250g fresh strawberries, hulled
- 100g thin round crisp biscuits (we had hazelnut cookies from La Boulange)
- Fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced
- Tuiles or cigarillos, to serve
- Mint sprigs, to serve
Directions:
1. Cut the peaches into 8 wedges.
2. Heat a large, non-stick frying pan and sprinkle in 75g of sugar. Melt to a light caramel without stirring.



7. Cut strawberries into wedges.

8. Layer peaches, strawberries, raspberries, cookies, ice cream, repeat.

9. Scoop ice cream on top, whipped cream if desired, and decorate with berries, mint, and Pirouline.

Did it measure up?
It was even more delicious than we imagined! It was such a perfect, summery dessert on a hot day. We luckily found excellent peaches at Ripe, a produce stand in North Park. (Good peaches are SO HARD to find.) We would probably leave out the strawberries next time — they felt unnecessary, since the raspberry/peach combination is pretty great as it is.