Tropical Maracuja - based heart and Cleopatra Moscato Oro Grappa Amaretto biscuit on Airone Rosso reduction

Dessert
piatti
Aged
grappa
6 people
pax
Tramonte Francesco, Omar Quarneti, "Cantine Antica Grotta", Riolo Terme
35 minutes

Ingredients:

8 Maracujas or 80 ml Maracuja juice
250 fresh cream
300 g ricotta
120 g powdered sugar
30 cl Cleopatra Moscato Oro
15 gound Amaretti biscuits
6 gelatin sheets 

For the reduction:
 20 g sugar
 25 cl Airone Rosso

Preparation:

Soak the gelatin sheets in a bowl with cold water. Drain them.
Slice the Maracujas in halves, remove the flesh and sift it to get juice out of them.
Warm the juice in a saucepan gently, add the gelatin sheets until they're completely dissolved, remove the saucepan from heat, reserve to cool. In a bowl, start whipping the cream with the powdered sugar, add the ricotta and the maracuja juice and some Cleopatra Moscato Oro. Grind the Amaretti biscuits, wet them with some more Cleopatra Moscato Oro.
Shape the amaretti layer and the Maracuja mixture into an heart. 
Place this dessert in a freezer for two hours to thicken.
For the reduction: combine Airone Rosso and sugar in a saucepan, warm gently until it  thickens. Decorate a dish with some reduction. Lay the dessert on the reduction and decorate with some fore fresh Maracuja grains.

Link to the recipe:

www.cantineanticagrotta.com