pineapple with gelato and fresh summer fruit
millefoglie di ananas e gelato
4 servings
Serve this dramatic dessert with a spoon, fork and knife. Be sure to have all the fruit sliced before preparing. Fruit for garnish can be varied. Choose whatever is freshest and most vibrant at your market.
Ingredients
- 1 large pineapple, trimmed
- 2 pints vanilla gelato, softened slightly
- 12 thin slices cantaloupe
- 1 peach or nectarine, pitted and thinly sliced
- 1 fresh fig, quartered
- 4 grapes, halved
- 4 raspberries
- Confectioners sugar for dusting
- Fresh mint sprigs for garnish
Instructions
From pineapple, slice 16 (⅓-inch) rounds. Place 1 round each onto 4 serving plates. Working quickly, dollop 3 to 4 spoonfuls gelato over rounds; top with a second layer of rounds. Repeat until each stack contains 3 layers of gelato and is topped with a pineapple round.
Top with cantaloupe, peach, fig, grapes and raspberries. Dust with confectioners' sugar, garnish with mint and serve immediately, before gelato melts.
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