Honey-Baked Figs with Hazelnut Ice Cream

Name: Honey-Baked Figs with Hazelnut Ice Cream
Yield: Serves four
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 60 ml/4 tbsp clear honey; 8 large figs; 450 ml/¾ pint/scant 2 cups double (heavy) cream; 50 g/2 oz/¼ cup caster (superfine) sugar; 3 large (US extra large) egg yolks; 1.5 ml/¼ tsp vanilla essence (extract); 75 g/3 oz/¾ cup hazelnuts; finely pared rind of 1 lemon; 1 cinnamon stick, roughly broken

Preparation info

Serves
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Recipes from My Spanish Grandmother

By Pepita Aris

Published 2013

About

Two wild ingredients - figs and hazelnuts - are used to make this delectable dessert, higos con helado de avellana. Fresh figs are baked in a lightly spiced lemon and honey syrup and are served with home-made roasted hazelnut ice cream.

Ingredients

finely pared rind of 1 lemon
1 cinnamon stick, roughly broken
60 ml/

Europe
Spain
Dessert
Mediterranean
Vegetarian
ice cream
Gluten-free

Method

Make the ice cream. Gently heat the cream in a pan until almost boiling. Meanwhile, beat the sugar and egg yolks in a bowl until creamy.
Pour a little hot cream into the egg yolk mixture and stir with a wooden spoon. Pour back into the pan and mix well. Co

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