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Baked Figs with Mascarpone Cheese and Rum Sauce
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Baked Figs with Mascarpone and Rum Sauce

Warm figs baked in a honey, rum and star anise sauce, served on creamy mascarpone with crushed pistachios. An easy, elegant autumn dessert.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time15 minutes
Cooling10 minutes
Total Time35 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: European
Keyword: baked figs, easy autumn dessert, fig dessert, figs with mascarpone, rum sauce
Servings: 2

Equipment

  • Saucepan
  • Ovenproof dish

Ingredients

  • 4 figs
  • 200 g mascarpone cheese
  • 20 g butter
  • 30 ml honey
  • 20 ml rum
  • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • 3 star anise
  • 20 g pistachios crushed

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 190°C.
  • Make the sauce: melt the butter and honey, then add the rum, cinnamon and star anise. Mix together.
  • Cut a cross into the top of each fig, almost but not quite to the bottom. Gently open them out so the red flesh shows.
  • Place the figs in an ovenproof dish and pour the sauce over them.
  • Bake for 15 minutes.
  • Let the figs cool for 10 minutes.
  • Spoon a dollop of mascarpone onto each plate and place the figs on top. Pour over some of the sauce and sprinkle with crushed pistachios.