Fresh Figs With Ice Cream And Amaretto Chocolate Sauce
From mystic_river1 15 years agoIngredients
- Ingredients: shopping list
- 1 pint vanilla ice cream shopping list
- 2 tablespoons semisweet chocolate, grated (1/2 ounce) shopping list
- 2/3 cup amaretti cookies, crumbled (10 cookies) shopping list
- 1/2 cup whole almonds, toasted, coarsely chopped shopping list
- 2 teaspoons butter, melted shopping list
- 2 teaspoons of rum shopping list
- 4 teaspoons honey wine shopping list
- 2 teaspoons amaretto liqueur or 1/2 teaspoon almond extract shopping list
- 4 fresh California figs; halved shopping list
- chocolate Amaretto Sauce shopping list
- 5 tablespoons sugar shopping list
- 5 tablespoons water shopping list
- 2 squares (1-ounce each) unsweeted chocolate shopping list
- 2 squares (1-ounce each) semisweet chocolate shopping list
- 2 teaspoons butter shopping list
- 2 teaspoons Amaretto shopping list
How to make it
- Pack 1/2 cup of softened vanilla ice cream into each of 4 small paper cups (4 ounce size) using a spoon to form and mold. Replace ice cream in freezer.
- Preheat over to 350 F. In a small mixing bowl, mix grated chocolate, crumbled amaretti cookie, chopped almonds, butter, honey and amaretto liqueur. Place 2 tablespoons of this mixture on top of each fig half. Lightly spray baking sheet with vegetable oil. Arrange fig halves on baking sheet and bake for 6 to 7 minutes at 350F.
- For chocolate-amaretto sauce, in heavy 1 quart saucepan heat sugar, water, chocolate and butter over medium heat. Stir mixture and bring to a boil, stirring until mixture thickens and is smooth, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in amaretto liqueur.
- Before serving, remove ice cream from molds and arrange on plate. Place figs on serving plate and drizzle all over with sauce. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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