Dessert Recipes - Della Robbia Holiday Pie Recipe

Ingredients               

• 1 1/2 cups vanilla wafer crumbs

• 1/4 cup chopped toasted almonds

• 1/3 cup Amaretto di Saronno liqueur

• 1 cup heavy cream

• 2 Tbs Amaretto di Saronno liqueur

• 1 lb marzipan fruits or 2 cups assorted fruits - strawberry halves, green seedless grapes, maraschino cherries, peach slices, pineapple chunks, banana slices or plum slices

• Fresh mint leaves or crystallized mint leaves (optional)

• Candied mimosa and violets (optional)

• 1/3 cup finely chopped mixed candied fruits

• 1/3 cup melted butter or margarine

• 1 quart  vanilla ice cream

Serve 6 to 8

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Method:

1. In a bowl, mix crumbs, almonds and butter or margarine. Press mixture firmly into an un-greased 9-inch pie pan. Chill.

2. Soften ice cream and stir in 1/3 cup Amaretto di Saronno and fruits. Pour mixture into chilled pie shell. Freeze until hard.

3. In a bowl, mix heavy cream, 2 Tbs Amaretto di Saronno liqueur; beat until stiff. Pile whipped cream in mounds around the outer edge of pie. Freeze until ready to serve.

4. Decorate pie with marzipan or fruits pressed into whipped cream. Add mint leaves, mimosa and violets if desired. Serve at once.