Try piping whipped cream into Mary Berry’s easy brandy snaps for a deliciously retro dessert. Or make these easy brandy snaps into baskets for ice cream. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.

Repeat with the remaining brandy snaps. For the filling, place the double cream, vanilla seeds, icing sugar, kirsch and 50g/2oz of the blackberries into a large bowl and whip together until ...