Gingersnap Crumble Ice-Cream Tart with Chunky Pineapple Sauce
Gingersnap Crumble Ice-Cream Tart with Chunky Pineapple Sauce might be just the dessert you are searching for. One serving contains 834 calories, 9g of protein, and 36g of fat. This recipe covers 22% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 6. Only Head to the store and pick up coarsely broken gingersnaps, superpremium vanillan ice cream, sugar, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.
Instructions
Melt butter. In a food processor grind gingersnaps to fine crumbs and add butter and sugar, pulsing until blended.
Sprinkle 1 cup (not packed) crumb mixture over bottom of tart pan and press with an offset spatula.
Sprinkle 1/2 cup crumb mixture around edge of pan and with your fingers press up side of pan. Carefully line shell with foil, folding over edge to cover crumbs completely, and add pie weights or raw rice.
Sprinkle remaining crumb mixture in a shallow baking pan.
Bake crumb mixture in lower third of oven 12 minutes and bake shell in upper third 20 minutes. Cool crumb mixture in baking pan on a rack and, when crumbs are cool enough to handle, with your fingers break up any large clumps. Cool shell in foil in tart pan on another rack 15 minutes. Carefully remove foil and weights or rice and cool shell completely (shell may be soft in center but will firm as it cools). Soften ice cream slightly and fold in half of crumb mixture. Spoon ice-cream mixture into shell, smoothing top, and sprinkle with remaining crumb mixture. Freeze tart until ice cream is firm, about 2 hours. Tart keeps, frozen and loosely covered, 3 days.
Cut rind from pineapple and quarter pineapple lengthwise.
Cut off core and cut pineapple quarters crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick slices. In a dry 2- to 3-quart heavy saucepan cook sugar over moderately low heat, stirring slowly with a fork (to help sugar melt evenly), until melted and pale golden. Cook caramel, without stirring and gently swirling pan, until golden.
Remove pan from heat and add pineapple (mixture will vigorously steam and caramel will harden). Simmer mixture, stirring, 5 minutes, or until caramel is dissolved, and cool sauce to room temperature. Chill sauce, covered, at least 2 hours and up to 5 days.
Recommended wine: Cream Sherry, Madeira, Prosecco
Gingersnap Cookies works really well with Cream Sherry, Madeira, and Prosecco. Sweet bubbly Prosecco doesn't overwhelm simple sugar or shortbread cookies, a sweet cream sherry complements spiced cookies, and madeira's nutty notes match cookies with nuts perfectly. The NV Johnson Estate Cream Sherry with a 5 out of 5 star rating seems like a good match. It costs about 19 dollars per bottle.
NV Johnson Estate Cream Sherry
Very aromatic with notes of hazelnut, vanilla, and a touch of oak followed by sweet raisins and a touch of yeast. Clean lasting finish. Good now but will reward those allow it to age"". A favorite pre-prandial beverage. Consider it with nuts before dinner as an aperitif, or after dinner with dessert, especially chocolates and fruit-based desserts. Also wonderful on cold afternoons, served with biscotti to dip in ""Italian-style"". "