A lovely dessert for new year or with a cup of tea to break your fast. Serve warm or at room tempearature, as it is or with ice cream or whipped cream. It also works well with plums, apricots and apples if preferred.
Serves: 6
Prep: 15 minutes
Cook: 20 minutes
Ingredients
200g marzipan
100g whole almonds, toasted
5 tbsp cream
375g ready rolled puff pastry
50g ground almonds
8 figs, sliced in wedges
3 tbsp flaked almonds
1 egg yolk to glaze pastry
Icing sugar to garnish
Method
- Preheat oven to 200°C.
- Toast the whole almonds in the preheated oven for 10 minutes or until golden allow to cool.
- Place the marzipan, cream and whole almonds in the food processor and whizz together until the mixture resembles a thick paste.
- Line a baking tray with non-stick baking parchment.
- Unroll the pastry and lay on top of the baking parchment. Using the tip of a sharp knife, score a line about 2.5 cm in from the edge that goes all the way around the pastry.
- Glaze the pastry's scored outer edge with the beaten egg yolk.
- Spread the marzipan paste over the centre of the pastry up to the scored line.
- Scatter evenly with the ground almonds and arrange the sliced figs over the marzipan to cover.
- Sprinkle with the flaked almonds.
- Bake for 15- 20 minutes or until crisp and golden.
- Dust with icing sugar just before serving.
