Recipe - Phyllo Crumple With Orange And Vanilla Creamsicle Flavors

3 cup Orange juice, preferably
fresh squeezed
3 tablespoon Sugar
1 Vanilla bean, split and
seeded
2 Bay leaves
Tiny pinch salt
1 pack Frozen phyllo dough, thawed
One half cup Melted butter
One half cup Sugar
4 Clementines, peeled and
sectioned
1 pt Vanilla ice cream
6 small Sprigs fresh mint

Preheat an oven to 350 degrees.

Reduce the orange juice to 1 One half cups in a small heavy saucepan with the
sugar, vanilla bean, bay leaves and salt. Let cool.

Unwrap and unroll the thawed phyllo dough. Remove 3 sheets and cut in half
to make 6. Reroll the remainder and wrap tightly. Return to the
refrigerator for another use. Brush each half sheet of phyllo with the
melted butter on both sides and sprinkle with sugar. With both hands
crumple the sheet to about the size of a squash ball. Repeat with the
remaining 5 sheets. Place each crumpled ball on a cookie sheet pan and bake
in the oven until browned, about 4 minutes. Reserve.

In each of 6 bowls, place 1 phyllo crumple, 6 clementine sections in a ring
next to it and pour One fourth cup of the flavored orange syrup over the fruit.
Place a small scoop of vanilla ice cream on each ring of fruit. Garnish
with a mint sprig and serve.

Yield: 6 servings

NOTES : Cooking Live Recipe by: Cooking Live Show #CL8807

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #394 by Angele Freeman jfreeman@netusa1.net
on Jan 28, 1997.