Butter Pecan Ice Cream

In this recipe of butter pecan ice cream, delicious buttered pecans are used which gives great taste to the ice cream. Powdered toasted pecans are used so that flavor of pecan would spread all over the ice cream batter while some coarsely chopped pecan may also use as topping for the ice cream.

Ingredients:

2 cups whole milk
1 cup heavy cream
4.5 oz light brown sugar (divided)
4 large egg yolks
Pinch of salt
1 cup butter pecans (finely ground)
½ tsp vanilla extract

Preparation:

1. In a sauce pan simmer milk, cream and half quantity of brown sugar for just 5 min, keep stirring in between so that mixture would not get boil you just need to warm and mix the mixture.
2. Whisk together remaining brown sugar, egg yolks and salt in a mixing bowl.
3. Slowly pour 2/3 of the milk mixture to the egg yolk mixture and constantly stir while adding so that smooth mixture would form.
4. After that add this mixture to the remaining milk mixture and again cook on low heat until batter gets thick, stirring in between so that batter may not stick to the pan.
5. When the mixture gets warm, strain it using fine strainer so that batter would be smooth.
6. Add the ground butter pecans and vanilla to the batter and mix well.
7. When the batter gets cool to room temperature, pour it to your ice cream maker and then follow the instructions. It would be batter practice for making perfect ice cream that refrigerate the batter for at least half an hour and then transfer to ice cream maker in that case ice cream would take less time in beating and perfect scoop will form.

Almond Ice Cream Recipe

This is a toasted chocolate almond ice cream recipe; in which combined flavor of almonds and chocolate add to the vanilla flavor ice cream, the result is therefore, crunchy chocolaty almond flavor ice cream which tastes awesome. You can also use caramel with the almonds instead of chocolates.

Ingredients:

1 ½ cup almonds (toasted and peeled)
8.5 oz cooking chocolate (melted)
15 oz milk
4 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
5 oz granulated sugar
½ tsp salt
1 cup heavy whipping cream

Preparation:

1. Spread almonds on a tray and pour melted chocolate evenly over the whole almonds. Let it freeze in freezer until become hard, it would take 15-20 min.
2. After that crush the hard chocolate almonds in grinder and set aside.
3. Boil milk in a sauce pan on slow heat.
4. In a mixing bowl, beat eggs, vanilla, sugar and salt until become fluffy and creamy.
5. When the milk gets boil, remove it from heat and let it cool to room temperature.
6. Slowly add milk to the egg mixture and keep stirring while adding otherwise scrambles of egg would form.
7. When all the milk and egg mixture combines to form smooth batter again cook it on slow heat by constant stirring until batter would get thick, it would take 10-15 min.
8. Remove the pan from heat and mix heavy cream in the batter, pour the batter in ice cream maker and follow the instructions mentioned on the maker.
9. When beating done half way add crushed chocolate almonds to the batter and start beating again until desired ice cream consistency would obtain.