How to Make Winter Fruit with Champagne Cream

Fruit is good. Fruit with champagne cream is even better. This light and fluffy cream is sweet, a bit tart and super easy to make.

The ingredients:

• 4 oz. cream cheese
• 1 teaspoon lemon zest
• 1/3 cup champagne
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 egg white
• assorted fruits such as grapes, apples, pomegranate arils and clementine segments

The instructions:

1. In a medium bowl, beat cream cheese, lemon zest, and champagne until smooth. Set aside.
2. In another medium bowl, whip heavy cream and vanilla to a soft peak stage.
3. In a small bowl, beat egg white to soft peak stage.  Sprinkle in confectioners' sugar while beating to stiff peaks.
4. Gently fold whipped cream into the cream cheese/champagne mixture using only a quarter of the whipped cream at a time.
5. Gently fold in whipped egg white. 
6. Fill serving dish with assorted fruit. Top with champagne cream.