Shelly's Recipe

ICE CREAM STRUDEL

Category: Napoleons/Eclairs/Strudel/Baklava/Cream Puffs

Crust
1/2 lb butter, melted
1/2 pint vanilla ice cream softened
2 cups all-purpose flour

Filling
3 tbsp sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
2 cups apricot or raspberry preserves, marmalade or fruit pie filling
1 cup chopped walnuts, pecans or almonds
1 cup raisins or golden currants
1/2 cup chocolate chips (optional)

Confectioners sugar (optional)

Crust: Beat butter into ice cream. Add flour a cup at a time and form into a soft ball. Place in wax paper or plastic wrap and refrigerate at least an hour, until dough is easy to handle. Divide into 4 portions. Roll each into a rectangle about 1/8-inch thick.

Stir the preserves, nuts, raisins, and chips together. Spoon filling onto dough, and roll up each portion as you would a jelly roll, from the long end.

Heat oven to 350. Place rolls on parchment-lined cookie sheet, and slit each roll on the diagonal into about 10 portions. Bake about 45 minutes, or until golden brown. Sprinkle with confectioners sugar.