Fresh Figs With Ice Cream And Amaretto Chocolate Sauce

Total Time: 29 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 9 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 pint vanilla ice cream, softened
• 1/2 ounce semisweet chocolate, grated
• 2/3 cup amaretti cookie, crumbled
• 1/4 cup roasted almonds, coarsely chopped
• 2 teaspoons butter, melted
• 4 teaspoons honey
• 2 teaspoons amaretto or 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
• 4 fresh figs, halved
• 5 tablespoons sugar
• 5 tablespoons water
• 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate squares
• 2 ounces squares semisweet chocolate
• 2 teaspoons butter
• 2 teaspoons amaretto or 1/2 teaspoon almond extract

Recipe

• 1 pack 1/4 cup vanilla ice cream into each of 8 small paper cups and freeze.
• 2 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 3 lightly butter baking sheet, then set aside.
• 4 in a small bowl, mix grated chocolate, cookies, almonds, butter honey and amaretto.
• 5 scopp 2 tablesoons of this mixture onto each fig half.
• 6 arrange on baking sheet and bake 6 to 7 minutes at 350°f.
• 7 for the sauce, combine sugar, water, chocolates and butter in a heavy saucepan.
• 8 heat on medium, stirring until mixture boils, thickens and is smooth (about 2 minutes.).
• 9 remove from heat, stir in amaretto liquer.
• 10 to serve, unmold ice cream and and place a stuffed fig on plate. drizzle sauce over the ice cream and fig.
• 11 serve while filling is still warm.