Apicius' Semifreddo Agli Amaretti

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 egg yolks
• 100 g sugar
• 100 g amaretti
• 300 g whipping cream

Recipe

• 1 beat the egg yolks with sugar till it becomes firm foam. pour it out in a round bottom stainless steel bowl and double boil it while continue whisking, until the batter gets to 70c (foam forms a tring w/o breaking). take it off the fire and let it cool.
• 2 whip up the cream in a very cold bowl.
• 3 crumble the amaretti.
• 4 first fold the egg batter into cream, then add crumbs. fold with care.
• 5 optionally, you can flavor the cream with some drops of amaretto liqueur.
• 6 put the cream in individual cups and keep in the freezer for half an hour.