I'll try and post the recipes, take pictures and obviously advise on how it tastes! So this weekend, I decided to try out my ice cream maker. About 4 years ago some friends of my in-laws moved back to hong kong and I took a moulinex ice cream maker off their hands. It's been gathering dust in my cupboard ever since! So yesterday I spent 3 hrs googling the instructions on how the machine works, but alas just thought I'd give it a bash. I made salted caramel ice cream, as found on google! This is the recipe I chose: Epicurious Salted Caramel Icecream.
Tons of great reviews for the ice cream and I've been craving salted caramel for the last two weeks! Also some of the others called for tons of egg yolks and I hate not having anything to do with egg whites! This recipe uses three whole eggs.
First I had to convert the annoying cup measurements into grams and millimetres! Then I was on my way. I substituted 'heavy' cream for double cream as well. My first attempt at caramel went ok, I was worried it was burnt but when I poured in the cream it all melted nicely and went exactly as the recipe described. The custard part was also a little tricky. I took my eye off it to grab my sieve and bowl and it went a bit lumpy but was fine once I sieved it! (next time I'll try and remember to take pics as I go as well!) then cooled it down quickly then into the icecream maker for 40 mins! Simples!
A word of warning I was really worried that it would taste burnt as at room temperature that seemed the overriding flavour! Once frozen it tasted quite different and the slightly burnt caramel flavour only enhanced the ice cream!
Overall, a successful recipe I'd say and hopefully (if I don't end up eating it all today) a nice after dinner treat for the next few days!
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