Indulge in a symphony of flavors with our delightful Apple and Fig Napoleons, a culinary masterpiece that combines the sweet crunch of apples, the earthy elegance of figs, and the lusciousness of homemade red wine sauce. This exceptional dessert is further elevated by a scoop of tangy sour cream ice cream, creating a harmonious balance of flavors that will tantalize your taste buds. Embark on a culinary journey with our meticulously crafted recipes, guiding you through each step of creating this exquisite dessert. Discover the art of crafting flaky puff pastry, the perfect filling, and the velvety smooth ice cream that come together to create an unforgettable dessert experience. Whether you're a seasoned baker or a novice in the kitchen, our detailed instructions and helpful tips will ensure your success in creating this stunning dessert.
Here are our top 9 tried and tested recipes!
VANILLA ICE CREAM WITH BALSAMIC FIG SAUCE
Provided by Rachael Ray : Food Network
Categories dessert
Time 18m
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Place ice cream on counter to soften. In a small pot, combine vinegar and water and bring to a boil. Add figs and reduce heat to simmer. Stew figs in sauce until they are soft and sauce is thick and syrupy, about 12 minutes.
- Scoop ice cream into glass goblets or other dessert dishes and top liberally with hot balsamic fig sauce and whipped cream. Garnish the top of the whipped cream with a little freshly grated nutmeg.
APPLE-AND-FIG NAPOLEONS WITH RED-WINE SAUCE AND SOUR-CREAM ICE CREAM
Provided by Molly O'Neill
Categories ice creams and sorbets, dessert
Time 1h30m
Yield Eight servings
Number Of Ingredients 22
Steps:
- To make the ice cream, place the milk and vanilla bean in a medium saucepan over medium heat and bring just to a simmer. Meanwhile, whisk together the egg yolks and sugar. Whisking rapidly, pour the milk into the yolk mixture. Pour the mixture back in the saucepan, place over low heat and stir constantly until thick enough to coat the back of a spoon; do not let mixture simmer. Pour into a bowl, cover and refrigerate until cold. Remove the vanilla bean and whisk in the sour cream. Freeze in an ice cream machine. Store in freezer until shortly before serving.
- To make the phyllo, preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Lay 1 sheet of phyllo on a work surface, brush lightly with butter and sprinkle with 1 tablespoon of sugar. Top with another sheet of phyllo, brush with butter and sprinkle with sugar. Repeat once more. Trim the edges to make a 10-by-14-inch rectangle. Cut into 8 3 1/2-by-5-inch rectangles. Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Repeat with the remaining phyllo, butter and sugar. Bake until lightly browned and crisp, about 5 minutes. Set aside.
- To make the sauce, combine all ingredients in a large saucepan and simmer until reduced to 1 1/3 cups, about 40 minutes. Strain and set aside.
- To make the apples, combine the apples, sugar, lemon zest and vanilla bean in a medium saucepan over low heat. Cook, covered, for 8 minutes, stirring once. Uncover and simmer until apples are soft but not mushy and some liquid has evaporated, about 5 minutes more. Remove the lemon zest and vanilla bean. Stir in lemon juice and set aside.
- To make the fig paste, puree the figs in a food processor. Add the cream, Armagnac and lemon juice and puree until smooth. Set aside.
- To assemble, place 1 piece of phyllo on each of 8 plates and spread with some of the fig paste. Spoon the apple mixture over it. Spoon a pool of the sauce beside the pastry on each plate. Lean 1 piece of remaining phyllo over the sauce and against one of the longer edges of the plated phyllo. Repeat with all the plates. Place a scoop of ice cream beside the napoleons and sprinkle with a few strands of lemon zest. Serve immediately.
QUICK SOUR CREAM ICE CREAM
Provided by Food Network
Categories dessert
Time 40m
Yield approximately 1 quart
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- Combine sour cream and half-and-half. Whisk in the sugar and add in the lemon juice. Whisk to combine well and process in an ice cream machine.
MAPLE-FIG ICE CREAM
Provided by Giada De Laurentiis
Categories dessert
Time 7h45m
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Bring 2 cups water and the figs to a simmer in heavy small saucepan over high heat. Cover and reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer, turning occasionally, until the figs are very tender, about 30 minutes. Transfer the figs and 1/2 cup of the cooking liquid to a food processor (or add some water to make 1/2 cup). Blend until the figs are pureed and no large lumps remain. Transfer to a small bowl, cover and chill. (Fig puree can be made 1 week ahead.)
- Whisk the whipping cream, sugar, maple syrup, salt and egg yolks in a heavy large saucepan until blended. Whisk over medium heat until the custard thickens enough to coat a spoon (and the temperature registers 170 degrees F to 180 degrees F), 4 to 5 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and immediately whisk 1/2 cup of the fig puree into the custard, reserving the remaining fig puree. Transfer the custard to a bowl and chill uncovered until cool, stirring occasionally, about 1 hour. Whisk in the sour cream and brandy.
- Process the custard in an ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions. Transfer to a bowl, cover tightly and freeze until firm, at least 6 hours and up to 3 days.
- Scoop the ice cream into goblets or bowls. Spoon some Brandied Maple-Fig Sauce on top, sprinkle with pine nuts and serve.
- Stir the fig puree, maple syrup and brandy in a small bowl until blended. Cover and chill until needed. (The sauce can be made 1 day ahead.)
FIG AND GINGERED MASCARPONE NAPOLEONS
Active time: 30 min Start to finish: 1 1/4 hr
Yield Makes 7 napoleons
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Roll out pastry with a floured rolling pin on a lightly floured surface into a 15- by 12-inch rectangle (3/4 inch thick) and trim edges. Halve pastry lengthwise with a pastry wheel or large knife to form 2 (15- by 6-inch) strips. Cut each strip crosswise into 7 equal rectangles (for a total of 14). Arrange rectangles in 1 layer on 2 large baking sheets and chill 20 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- While pastry is chilling, trim and chop 4 figs and stir together with mascarpone, ginger, sugar, and vanilla. Chill filling, covered.
- Cover pastry rectangles on 1 baking sheet with an inverted large metal cooling rack to lightly weight them, then bake in upper third of oven until golden and cooked through, 15 to 18 minutes. Remove rack carefully and transfer baked pastry to another rack to cool completely. Bake remaining rectangles, weighted with rack (make sure it's cooled), in same manner.
- While pastry is baking, cut remaining figs lengthwise into 1/4-inch-thick slices.
- Spread filling over 7 pastry rectangles and top with half of sliced figs, overlapping them. Dust with confectioners sugar. Cover figs with remaining pastry rectangles and top with remaining figs, overlapping them. Dust with confectioners sugar.
APPLE ICE CREAM
One-up your favorite ice-cream shop when you create this fruit-flavored ice cream at home!
Provided by Betty Crocker Kitchens
Categories Dessert
Time 1h50m
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Mix 1/2 cup sugar, the milk, salt and egg yolks in 1-quart saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, just to boiling (do not boil). Refrigerate uncovered in chilled bowl 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes or until room temperature.
- Stir whipping cream, vanilla and 3 or 4 drops food color into milk mixture.
- Place half of the apples, 1/2 cup sugar and the lemon juice in food processor or blender. Cover and process, using quick on-and-off motions, until coarsely chopped. Add remaining apples. Cover and process until finely chopped but not mashed.
- Stir apple mixture into milk mixture. Pour into 2-quart ice-cream freezer. Freeze according to manufacturer's directions.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 225, Carbohydrate 24 g, Cholesterol 100 mg, Fat 3, Fiber 1 g, Protein 2 g, SaturatedFat 9 g, ServingSize 1/2 Cup, Sodium 75 mg
APPLE NAPOLEONS
Cinnamon-spiced apples and whipped cream are sandwiched between flaky puff-pastry layers in this satisfying, easy-to-make dessert.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Dessert & Treats Recipes
Time 45m
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a small bowl, combine cinnamon and sugar. Place pastry on a lightly floured work surface. Sprinkle evenly with 2 tablespoons cinnamon mixture. Carefully roll out to 1/8 inch thick. Cut out eight 3 inch squares, and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Cover with more parchment and another baking sheet. Chill in freezer until firm, about 15 minutes.
- Bake pastry in oven until crisp and lightly browned, about 30 minutes. Remove top parchment and baking sheet. Transfer, with bottom parchment, to a wire rack, and let cool.
- Meanwhile, in a medium saucepan, melt butter over medium-high heat until foam subsides. Add apples; cook, stirring occasionally, until golden brown, about 7 minutes. Add remaining cinnamon mixture. Cook until apples are tender but not falling apart. Let cool completely. To assemble, top the pastry with whipped cream then apples; repeat with another layer of each. Serve immediately.
RED-WINE-POACHED FIGS WITH VANILLA ICE CREAM
Categories Dessert Poach Valentine's Day Quick & Easy Fig Red Wine Gourmet Fat Free Vegetarian Pescatarian Dairy Free Wheat/Gluten-Free Peanut Free Tree Nut Free Soy Free Kosher
Yield Serves 2
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- In a 1 1/2-quart saucepan combine all ingredients and bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Simmer figs, covered, until tender, about 30 minutes.
- Transfer figs with a slotted spoon to a bowl and boil syrup until reduced to about 1/4 cup. Strain syrup through a fine sieve into another bowl. Add syrup to figs and cool to warm.
- Serve fig mixture spooned over ice cream.
SOUR-CREAM ICE CREAM
Provided by Ian Knauer
Categories Milk/Cream Blender Ice Cream Machine Frozen Dessert Party Sour Cream Gourmet
Yield Makes about 5 cups
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Purée all ingredients with 1/8 teaspoon salt in a blender until mixture is smooth and sugar has dissolved. Chill until very cold.
- Freeze mixture in ice cream maker. Transfer to an airtight container and put in freezer to firm up, about 6 hours.
Tips:
- For the best flavor, use ripe, in-season apples and figs.
- To make the puff pastry dough easier to work with, chill it for at least 30 minutes before rolling it out.
- When rolling out the puff pastry dough, be sure to flour the surface well to prevent sticking.
- To make the red wine sauce, use a dry red wine that you enjoy drinking.
- To make the sour cream ice cream, use full-fat sour cream for the best flavor and texture.
- When assembling the Napoleons, be sure to brush the puff pastry layers with the red wine sauce before adding the apples, figs, and ice cream.
Conclusion:
Apple and fig Napoleons with red wine sauce and sour cream ice cream are a delicious and elegant dessert that is perfect for any occasion. With their flaky puff pastry, sweet and tart apples and figs, and creamy red wine sauce and sour cream ice cream, these Napoleons are sure to impress your guests.
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