Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, cassata ice-cream. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
The term cassata stands for little case, and the ice cream typically has a bricklike shape. This ice cream is believed to be inspired by a very popular sweet in Sicily called cassata. Easy home made cassata ice cream with Christmas fruits, pistachio nuts and chocolate can be made with home made dairy free ice cream or your favourite store bought ice cream. One of my favorite is Arun Cassata Icecream.
Cassata ice-cream is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Cassata ice-cream is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have cassata ice-cream using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Cassata ice-cream:
- Prepare 1 litre vanilla ice-cream
- Prepare 150 g mixed dried fruit (with or without peel)
- Prepare 50 ml amaretto or rum
- Make ready 150 g chopped glacé cherries
- Make ready 150 g unsalted pistachio nuts, bashed in pestle and mortar
- Get 150 g frozen raspberries
- Make ready Zest of half a lemon
It comprises of layers of ice cream. Coat the inside of a two-quart bowl (stainless steel is the easiest) with the chocolate ice cream. Place the bowl in the freezer and allow the chocolate layer to harden. While the chocolate is hardening, soften the vanilla ice cream.
Steps to make Cassata ice-cream:
- If raspberries are fresh, pop them in the freezer. Remove ice-cream from freezer. Combine dried fruit with amaretto and then spend 10 minutes chopping glacé cherries and bashing the nuts in to good sized pieces (not too fine), and zesting half a lemon
- Now the fruit should have absorbed most of the alcohol, the raspberries will be chilled or frozen and the ice-cream will have softened but not melted. Turn the ice-cream in to a large bowl and mix with a spoon to break it up a little
- Add all the ingredients to the ice-cream and fold in, being careful to not over-work.
- Spoon mix back in to original tub. You will need a second tub to fit it all in. Freeze immediately. Best left overnight. Will keep in freezer for 2 months.
Place the bowl in the freezer and allow the chocolate layer to harden. While the chocolate is hardening, soften the vanilla ice cream. When the chocolate layer is frozen, take the bowl from the freezer and coat the inside with the vanilla ice cream. Nici Wickes' easy version of cassata ice cream is perfect if you're not a big fan of Amaretto or glacé cherries. This recipe uses roasted almonds, rum and fresh cherries instead.
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