Red raspberry ice cream cake with raspberry amaretto sauce
Red raspberry ice cream cake with raspberry amaretto sauce recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- 6 cups red raspberries, frozen
- 1/2 gallon vanilla ice cream
- About 2 dozen italian style ladyfingers
- 1/4 cup Amaretto liqueur, optional
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- Sauce:
- 4 cups frozen red raspberries
- 2 tablespoons Amaretto, substitute 1/2 teaspoon almond extract if you prefer a non alcoholic sauce
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- Garnish:
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 2 teaspoons granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
Recipe method:
- Coat springform with cooking spray and then line with plastic wrap.
- Let plastic wrap hang over the sides of the pan.
- Thaw 6 cups frozen raspberries.
- Remove ice cream from freezer and soften.
- Cut ladyfingers in length to be flush with top edge of plastic lined pan.
- Stand them, with rounded edge at the top, along the sides of the pan.
- Place additional ladyfingers in the bottom of the pan, squeezing them in tightly to cover completely, cutting to fit in small areas if needed.
- Sprinkle Amaretto over ladyfingers. Set aside.
- Puree raspberries in a food processor with the sugar.
- Press through a fine sieve into a large bowl.
- Add softened ice cream to raspberry puree and combine well.
- Pour ice cream mixture into prepared pan with ladyfingers.
- Freeze cake, covered with plastic wrap, until frozen hard, about 6 hours.
- To serve, remove cake from freezer and let soften in refrigerator at least 30 minutes and up to 45 minutes.
- Remove cake from pan, discarding plastic wrap.
- Whip heavy cream with sugar and almond extract until stiff peaks form.
- Garnish cake by piping cream along edge of cake with a large piping tip.
- Top cream with fresh or frozen whole raspberries.
- In a food processor, puree raspberries with sugar and Amaretto, or almond extract, and force through a fine sieve into a bowl.
- Sauce may be made ahead, covered and chilled.
- Serve cake with sauce. Pass extra sauce at the table.
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