Chocolate, fig and rum mattonella

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Mattonella (Italian for 'brick') is a chilled, Italian dessert which comes in many forms. It is quite rich and it is often 'set' in a loaf tin to give it a brick shape. This version with figs, is particularly suitable at Christmas time.

Chocolate, fig and rum mattonella

Servings:	Serves 6
Calories per serving:	593
Ready in:	15 minutes
Prep. time:	15 minutes
Cook time:	None
Difficulty:
Recipe author:	JuliaBalbilla
First published:	24th November 2016

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Ingredients

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• 100g dried figs, stalks removed
• 100ml Dark rum (or enough to cover the figs)
• 250g dark chocolate, broken into small squares
• 125g dark sugar
• 50g of butter
• 100ml whipping cream
• 125g plain or spiced biscuits, coarsely chopped

To finish

• 250ml whipping cream
• 2 tablespoons icing sugar
• Ground cinnamon or cocoa

Method

1. Place the figs in a bowl and add enough rum to cover (see Variations below)
2. Leave for at least 30 minutes to marinate.
3. Drain thoroughly, chop into small pieces and reserve.
4. In a fresh bowl, over a saucepan of water, melt the chocolate with the sugar and butter.
5. Remove from the heat, add the cream, figs and biscuits.
6. Pour the mixture into a loaf tin which had been lined with foil or Bake-O-Glide.
7. Smooth it out and refrigerate for several hours.
8. Just before serving, cut the Mattonella into slices and put 2 slices on each plate.
9. Whip the cream with the icing sugar and pipe some shapes onto the plates.
10. Sprinkle the cream with a little ground cinnamon or cocoa powder.

Chef's notes

I used a 500g loaf tin with a volume of about 800ml. This tin could have taken half the mixture quantity again. A 250g tin was too small.

Recipe source

• Translated and lightly adapted from a recipe at Uova Zucchero e Farina

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