Fresh Figs With Ice Cream And Amaretto Chocolate Sauce - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 pint vanilla ice cream, softened
Filling
1/2 ounce semisweet chocolate, grated
2/3 cup amaretti cookie, crumbled
1/4 cup roasted almonds, coarsely chopped
2 teaspoons butter, melted
4 teaspoons honey
2 teaspoons Amaretto or 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
4 fresh figs, halved
Amaretto Chocolate Sauce
5 tablespoons sugar
5 tablespoons water
2 ounces unsweetened chocolate squares
2 ounces squares semisweet chocolate
2 teaspoons butter
2 teaspoons Amaretto or 1/2 teaspoon almond extract

Preparation

Pack 1/4 cup vanilla ice cream into each of 8 small paper cups and freeze.
Preheat oven to 350\u00b0F.
Lightly butter baking sheet, then set aside.
In a small bowl, mix grated chocolate, cookies, almonds, butter honey and amaretto.
Scopp 2 Tablesoons of this mixture onto each fig half.
Arrange on baking sheet and bake 6 to 7 minutes at 350\u00b0F.
For the sauce, combine sugar, water, chocolates and butter in a heavy saucepan.
Heat on medium, stirring until mixture boils, thickens and is smooth (about 2 minutes.).
Remove from heat, stir in amaretto liquer.
To serve, unmold ice cream and and place a stuffed fig on plate. Drizzle sauce over the ice cream and fig.
Serve while filling is still warm.