Recipe:Chocolate Cassata

Ingredients

1 Litre vanilla ice cream

300 ml Cream

1/2 tsp Almond essence

1/2 Cup toasted almonds

50 gm Dark chocolate

2 tbsp Sugar

1/2 Cup glace fruit, chopped

Procedure

Soften the ice-cream and combine the almond essence with it.

Line the base and sides of 1 litre pudding basin leaving a cavity in the centre for the fruit mixture.

Freeze till firm.

Whip cream and sugar together till the peaks form.

Now chop chocolate and almonds.

Fold the chopped fruit, chocolate and almonds into the whipped cream.

Fill the cavity of the ice cream with

Cover it with foil and freeze till

Just before serving, dip the basin into very hot water, quickly 2 or 3 times then invert and shake sharply onto a serving plate.

Cut Cassata into wedges and serve.