Recipe - Pecan Cookies With Cranberry Ice Cream And Pumpkin Sauce

ICE CREAM:
One half cup Fresh orange juice
One half cup Grand Marnier
3 Star anise ground
6 ounce Brown sugar
1 tablespoon Vanilla extract
One half cup Cream
One half cup Yogurt

PECAN COOKIES: Three fourths cup flour Three fourths cup cake flour 1 cup confectioner's sugar
1 cup pecans, toasted and finely chopped One half cup brown sugar
Three fourths cup unsalted butter softened 1 egg yolk 1 teaspoon
vanilla extract PUMPKIN SAUCE: One fourth small pumpkin, split in half,
seeded One half teaspoon nutmeg One half cup maple syrup 1 each cinnamon stick 3 each
cloves One fourth teaspoon turmeric 2 cups cream

TO MAKE ICE CREAM:

In a sauce pan, combine orange juice, Grand Marnier and star anise; bring
to a boil and flame until all the alcohol is burned. Strain into another
sauce pan, add remaining ingredients and simmer for about 10 minutes.
Strain cranberry skins and freeze, following ice cream freezer TO MAKE
PECAN COOKIES:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Mix first four ingredients and set aside.

In a mixer, cream brown sugar and butter; add egg yolk and vanilla; at
medium speed add slowly remaining ingredients until incorporated; chill
dough wrapped in plastic film. Roll dough on a floured surface to 1/2inch
thick; cut desired shape with a cookie cutter or knife and place them on
parchment paper in a sheet pan and cook for 10 to 12 minutes. Keep in an
airtight container until serving time.

TO MAKE PUMPKIN SAUCE:

Blanch pumpkin seeds for 5 minutes in boiling water, then roast them at 400
degrees for 5 minutes with 1 tablespoon of confectioner's sugar. Cook
pumpkin in oven, meat side down, for 1 hour; remove skin and set aside. In
a sauce pan combine cream, maple syrup, nutmeg, cinnamon, clove and
turmeric and bring to a boil; strain and blend cream mixture with pumpkin;
let cool.

Serve 2 ounces of sauce into four plates; place a cookie in the middle and
scoop ice cream on top. Garnish with pumpkin seeds and more cookies.

Recipe By : David Garrido of Jeffrey's, Austin, TX

From: Date: 05/28

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