Cornmeal-Cookie Sundaes with Warm Fruit

Name: Cornmeal-Cookie Sundaes with Warm Fruit
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons baking powder; 2 Tbsps bourbon (optional); 1 teaspoons cinnamon; 1 large egg; 3 firm-ripe nectarines, thinly sliced; 237 milliliters all-purpose flour; 79 milliliters granulated sugar; 1 teaspoons ground cardamom; 6 servings Accompaniment: butter pecan ice cream; 1 Tbsps fresh lemon juice; 59 milliliters packed light brown sugar; 4 firm-ripe red plums, thinly sliced; 1 teaspoons salt; 1 Tbsp unsalted butter; 1 teaspoons vanilla; 118 milliliters yellow cornmeal

Cornmeal-Cookie Sundaes with Warm Fruit might be a good recipe to expand your dessert recipe box. One portion of this dish contains about 21g of protein, 16g of fat, and a total of 526 calories. This recipe covers 15% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 6. Head to the store and pick up lemon juice, flour, granulated sugar, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes.

Instructions

Beat together butter and sugars in a large bowl with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy. Beat in egg, vanilla, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and cardamom.

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Baking Powder

Cardamom

Cinnamon

Vanilla

Butter

Salt

Egg

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Add flour and cornmeal and stir with a wooden spoon until just blended.

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Cornmeal

All Purpose Flour

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Wooden Spoon

Halve dough and pat into 2 disks (dough will be very soft). Chill, wrapped in plastic wrap, at least 4 hours.

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Dough

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Preheat oven to 350°F.

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Oven

Roll out 1 piece of dough between 2 sheets of wax paper to 1/4 inch thick.

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Dough

Roll

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Wax Paper

Remove top sheet of wax paper and cut 3 cookies with fluted cutter, leaving cutouts in place. Replace wax paper.

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Cut Out Cookies

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Wax Paper

Roll out remaining piece of dough and cut 3 more cookies in same manner. Chill both pieces of dough until firm, about 15 minutes.

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Dough

Roll

Carefully transfer cookies to an ungreased large baking sheet and keep chilled. Reroll scraps between 2 sheets wax paper and cut out 2 more cookies (for a total of 8; you'll have 2 extra in case of breakage).

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Baking Sheet

Wax Paper

Transfer to baking sheet with other cookies.

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Baking Sheet

Bake cookies in upper third of oven until edges are golden brown, about 20 minutes.

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Oven

Transfer to a rack and dust with confectioners sugar.

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Powdered Sugar

Melt butter in a large nonstick skillet over moderately high heat, then add brown sugar and lemon juice and cook, stirring, until smooth, about 1 minute.

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Brown Sugar

Lemon Juice

Butter

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Frying Pan

Add fruit and bourbon (if using) and sauté, stirring occasionally, until fruit is tender, about 5 minutes (sauce will be red).

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Bourbon

Fruit

Sauce

Remove from heat.

Place 1 cookie on each of 6 dessert plates and dust again with confectioners sugar. Spoon some warm fruit topping over each cookie, then top with a scoop of ice cream.

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Powdered Sugar

Ice Cream