Dove ice cream Gratin

2_18189 DOVE with GRATINATED CREAM preparation: 30 minutes cooking time: 3 minutes Rest: 3 hours ingredients for 8 people: A classic Dove from 1 kg vanilla ice cream 400 g, maraschino Liqueur 1 short, 2 egg whites, 2 tablespoons powdered sugar, 130 g caster sugar, candied Citron, 1 Cherry and orange candied 30 g 1 pinch salt, Remove a thin slice horizontally to the Dovewith a serrated knife.

You must delete all the superficial part of the crust.

Break the crust with your hands until you reduce it in large crumbs.

Pour the cream into the bowl.

Keep first 15 minutes at room temperature.

Knock it a few minutes with the whip by hand, to soften it.

Add the crumbs of a dove and the liqueur, drop by drop, always working with the whip.

Spread the ice cream with a spatula, above the dove, on the side of the cut.

Formed one compact and uniform layer: pareggiatelo with the spatula.

Put the dove in the freezer for at least 3 hours.

You can prepare it the day before, but once that is consolidated ice cream, cover the cake with kitchen film.

At the last moment prepare the meringue and complete the sweet as is shown in the image.

The MERINGUE: pour the egg whites, kept at least 30 minutes at room temperature, into the bowl.

Add the icing sugar and the salt.

Mount for 10 minutes with electric mixer.

Built 120 g caster sugar, a little at a time and with vertical movements of the whip by hand.

Fairies rain sugar down with his left hand, and stir.

Fill the meringue in the Pocket.

Let it come down on ice cream layer flare Dove very close together.

Turn on the grill of the oven.

Sprinkle the sprigs of Meringue with sugar.

Decorated the Dove with the icing (put in place of the eye) and with strips of candied fruit arranged on the wing and on the tail.

Place the dove on the plate.

Bring it in the oven, don't put it too close to the grill.

Leave it until the meringue is slightly browned (3 minutes).

Transfer the cake to a serving platter.

Serve immediately.

Served with a white wine, sweet and aromatic, as Moscato Liquoroso del Trentino.