Vintage persimmons alla Katia

After a full immersion into Modica's chocolate and its Chocobarocco festival, today I decided to prepare something special with yet some more chocolate I had made few days ago for the occasion: vanilla chocolate stuffed persimmons with amaretto crumble.

I know, the idea of a stuffed fruit sounds very 80sh, but the taste is great and it is enough I refer to it as a "vintage recipe" , and I am back into the reign of cool cooking;)!

I washed the persimmons, then sliced off the top and scooped out the pulp using a spoon. I prepared the amaretto crumble with a dash of amaretto based liqueur and ground toasted almonds. Then, I melted my vanilla flavoured Modica chocolate bain-marie, adding a little water. Finally, I took the persimmon, sprinkled with amaretto crumble and spooned over a layer of thick melted chocolate, followed by more crumble and more chocolate.
When the persimmon was completely stuffed, I placed the top back on and spoon some chocolate in the middle with a crunchy roasted cocoa bean on top. It was delicious!