Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, cassata ice-cream. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Cassata Siciliana is a traditional recipe from Italy it is also called as Neapolitan or Harlequin Ice cream. It usually contains three flavors of Ice Cream arranged side by side in the same container. Cassata Ice Cream is a dessert made with creamy quality Ice cream layers.
Cassata ice-cream is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Cassata ice-cream is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have cassata ice-cream using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Cassata ice-cream:
- Prepare 1 litre vanilla ice-cream
- Get 150 g mixed dried fruit (with or without peel)
- Prepare 50 ml amaretto or rum
- Prepare 150 g chopped glacé cherries
- Get 150 g unsalted pistachio nuts, bashed in pestle and mortar
- Prepare 150 g frozen raspberries
- Prepare Zest of half a lemon
When a cassata is made, layers of gelato (Italian ice cream) can be substituted for the layers of cheese, producing a dessert similar to an ice cream cake. Cassata ice cream is a multicolored ice cream made of alternating layers of different flavors topped with sponge cake soaked in liqueur. The term cassata stands for little case. Elevate store bought ice-cream to a restaurant quality dessert with this cassata recipe brought to you by Woman's Day.
Instructions 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.
Have you ever had Cassata Ice Creams. It tastes different than the usual ice creams. Two- three flavors are mixed in it,mostly strawberry and pistachio flavor. It is bit costly also compared to the. Well because the Cassata ice-cream is supposed to have a base layer of sponge cake, topped with nutty pistachio ice cream and a rum and raisin one with vanilla and a strawberry ice-cream.
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