Gelato Cassata using Queen Make at Home Gelato Mix
Author: Maureen Shaw
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Sicilian
Serves: 8
- 1 package Queen Vanilla Gelato Mix
- 1 Package Queen Chocolate Gelato Mix
- 1 Cup whipping Cream
- 1 cup chopped mixed glace or dried fruit (I used cherries, plums, ginger, blueberries and apricots)
- ½ cup rum (or as much as you need for the cake and the fruit)
- 1½ cups chopped cake crumbs (I used madeira cake from Woolworths)
- Chocolate shavings
- Make the gelato mixes and place in the fridge to cool
- Chop the glace fruit and soak in rum until needed.
- Freeze the gelato and place in the freezer for 1 to 2 hours
- Prepare a pan sized to suit your family. I used a silicone sheet.
- Place 1½ inches of vanilla gelato on the bottom of the pan
- Drizzle two tablespoons of rum over the cake and sprinkle cake crumbs over the vanilla layer and place in freezer for 30 minutes
- Place 1½ inches of chocolate gelato over the cake crumbs and place in the freezer.
- Strain glace fruit and set aside.
- Whip cream to soft peaks
- In a large bowl add the glace fruit and the reserved vanilla gelato and mix together. Fold in the whipped cream.
- Pour over the chocolate gelato layer, cover and freeze for 6 hours or overnight.
- Place on a plate and garnish with chocolate, pistachios, whipped cream or more glace fruit.
I made a 20cm cake for the two of us and had plenty of both chocolate and vanilla gelato left over so a much larger cassata could have been made.
Recipe by Orgasmic Chef at https://orgasmicchef.com/gelato-cassata-using-queen-make-at-home-gelato-mix/
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