Toffee Dates with Vanilla Cream

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Fire: A World of Flavour

By Christine Manfield

Published 2008

  • About

The variety of fresh dates in the Arab world is quite astounding. I made this dessert for dinner once when staying in a beautiful house in the Palmeraie area of Marrakech that had a garden full of date palms.

Ingredients

  • 150 g gianduja (hazelnut) couverture chocolate
  • 110 ml pouring (35%) cream

Method

Chop the chocolate into small pieces and place in a bowl. Heat the cream in a saucepan to simmering point then pour over the chocolate and stir until melted. Refrigerate until the ganache is firm, then transfer to a piping bag with a small nozzle attached.

Split the dates down one side and remove the stones. Pipe the firm ganache into the centre to fill the dates and press to close. Ref