Baked Amaretti & vin Santo Plums with Mascarpone Cream

Name: Baked Amaretti & vin Santo Plums with Mascarpone Cream
Yield: Serves 12
Ingredients: about 40 g (1½ oz) butter, diced; about 30 g (1 oz) caster (superfine) sugar; about 30 g (1 oz) caster (superfine) sugar; 3 tablespoons vin santo; 40 g (1½ oz) amaretti biscuits; 6 juicy but firm, red plums; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 2 tablespoons icing (confectioners’) sugar; 200 ml (7 fl oz) whipping cream; mascarpone cream; 2 tablespoons icing (confectioners’) sugar; 250 g (9 oz) mascarpone

Preparation info

Serves
12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Falling Cloudberries

By Tessa Kiros

Published 2004

About

I like to eat this when the plums are warm, and I sometimes have it with a slice of pandoro or panettone. If the season is right, you can use peaches or nectarines instead of the plums. Save any leftover amaretti crumbs to sprinkle over ice cream.

Ingredients

40 g (1½ oz) amaretti biscuits
6 juicy but firm, red plums

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat your oven to 200°C (400°F/Gas 6). Crush the amaretti biscuits to coarse crumbs. Cut through the plums all the way around through to the stone. Hold the plum in your palm and twist the other half away so that it comes off smoothly. Sit the plums cut side up in a baking dish. Rem