Baklava Ice-cream with Honey poached Figs

Submitted by dale7793

"Do you love Baklava? Do you love Ice-cream? Then you'll love this fantastic dessert! Of course the ice-cream is equally as good on it's own if you don't want to make the figs!"

 

• Ready In: 24hrs 30mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 10

ingredients

• 4 liters good quality vanilla ice cream
• 1 cup walnuts
• 1 cup slivered almonds
• 1 cup pistachios
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon
• 1⁄3 cup caster sugar
• 1 cup water
• 3⁄4 cup honey
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 375 g dried figs

directions

1. Preheat oven to 200 degree C.
2. Spread the nuts onto a baking tray and cook for about 10 minutes, just until the nuts are golden and toasted.
3. Cool.
4. Grease and line two 6 1/2 cm deep loaf pans.
5. Stand ice cream at room temperature to soften, just so that it's workable-not melted.
6. Roughly chop the cooled nuts.
7. Add the cinnamon and sugar to the nuts and stir to combine.
8. Place 1 litre of the ice-cream into each loaf pan and spread evenly.
9. Sprinkle each with 1 cup of nut mixture.
10. Top with the remaining litre of ice-cream in each pan and top each with the remaining nuts, pressing the nuts on so that they stick in the ice-cream.
11. Wrap each pan with plastic wrap and then a layer of foil.
12. Freeze for at least 6 hours or overnight.
13. To make the honey figs bring the water, honey and cinnamon to the boil in a saucepan.
14. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
15. Add the figs and cook another 15 minutes.
16. Cool slightly, transfer to a container and refridgerate for at least 2 hours.
17. To serve, slice the ice-cream and serve topped with some figs and drizzled with the syrup.

Reviews

[rosslare]

Fantastic! I made per recipe, wouldn't change a thing! Will feed 10 happy customers, if not more!

 

[Lana Jaqueline]

Tried this with lowfat vanilla yogurt mixed with cool whip instead of yogurt and drizzled honey on each serving. Great lowfat version with a ton of flavor. No figs though. Made a fig/pumpkin pie instead that worked beautifully.