Recipe Toasted Coconut-Cinnamon Ice Cream

[The Late Night Gourmet]

The weather was somewhat warm this weekend, and Kroger had eggs for half pice, so I had no choice but to make my first ice cream of the year.



Instead of my usual recipe (http://www.food.com/recipe/cinnamon-ice-cream-527593) I decided to add in a cup of shaved coconut. To deepen the flavor, I toasted it in a pan with butter until it browned slightly. I think I could have gone darker with the toasting, but I didn't want to burn it. Looking at it, you can't even tell there's coconut in the ice cream...until you eat it, that is. I'm glad we have a freezer in my office so I can have it with my lunch.

<-- I think we need an ice cream eating smilie.

• 1 quart half-and-half
• 1 quart fat-free half-and-half
• 2 cups unbleached cane sugar
• 1 vanilla bean split and scraped
• 6 cinnamon sticks
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 12 large egg yolks

Directions

1. In a saucepan, over medium heat, combine the half-and-half, sugar, cinnamon sticks, and vanilla bean with pulp. Bring to a simmer.
2. In a small mixing bowl, whisk the egg yolks until smooth. Add 1 cup of the hot liquid to the egg yolks in a slow stream, gradually whisking to combine, until smooth. Whisk in the cinnamon powder until fully integrated.
3. Add the yolk mixture to the saucepan of liquid and whisk until incorporated. Bring the liquid back to simmer and continue to cook for about 5 minutes or until the mixture coats the back of a spoon.
4. Pour the mixture into a bowl and place a piece of plastic wrap directly on top of the mixture. This will prevent a skin from forming while cooling.
5. Cool the mixture completely. Process the mixture according the ice cream machines instructions.

 

[Morning Glory]

This looks delicious. If only I had an ice-cream machine (no space!).

 

[GadgetGuy]

This looks delicious. If only I had an ice-cream machine (no space!).

It DOES!!

 

[The Late Night Gourmet]

Thank you!

You actually can make ice cream without an ice cream maker. Here's one way:

http://www.davidlebovitz.com/making-ice-crea-1/

I should update my recipe to say this, but as I prepare to pour it in the ice cream maker, I check it every hour or so and scrape the sides of the bowl as it starts to freeze. I like to get it in a milkshake-type consistency before I churn it. You can do this until it's frozen, and it'll taste just as good. The thing you miss, however, is the consistency of churned ice cream. And, you may require heavy equipment to chip off pieces of it, depending on how cold your freezer is, because is does freeze solid if it hasn't been churned.

 

[buckytom]

This looks like a good reason to dig out and break in the ice cream maker. I was given one as a gift a few years ago, but never got around to using it.

Thanks, LNG.

 

[Morning Glory]

Thank you!

You actually can make ice cream without an ice cream maker. Here's one way:

http://www.davidlebovitz.com/making-ice-crea-1/

I should update my recipe to say this, but as I prepare to pour it in the ice cream maker, I check it every hour or so and scrape the sides of the bowl as it starts to freeze. I like to get it in a milkshake-type consistency before I churn it. You can do this until it's frozen, and it'll taste just as good. The thing you miss, however, is the consistency of churned ice cream. And, you may require heavy equipment to chip off pieces of it, depending on how cold your freezer is, because is does freeze solid if it hasn't been churned.

Thanks for this! I will have a go. I will need to make space in my freezer first!

 

[buckytom]

You can make ice cream in a couple of plastic bags, ice, salt, and their endothermic reaction.

It's a little experiment we used to do in the Boy Scouts.

http://engineering.oregonstate.edu/momentum/k12/july04/index.html

 

[Morning Glory]

You can make ice cream in a couple of plastic bags, ice, salt, and their endothermic reaction.

It's a little experiment we used to do in the Boy Scouts.

http://engineering.oregonstate.edu/momentum/k12/july04/index.html

Early ice-cream makers used the same science.

 

[buckytom]

Yup. You'd see those old wooden buckets with the double liner and hand crank on top years ago.

When my son was really small, we were sharing a bowl of ice cream and having a chat about history, so I told him that it was our Norwegian ancestors who had invented it. He completely believed that we were direct descendents of the great viking king named Haagen Dazs...

 

[Cinisajoy]

The last time I made ice cream with children was in 1986 and with snow.
Snow, sugar, milk and a half a dozen spoons.

 

[GadgetGuy]

When I get an ice cream machine, this just might be the first ice cream that I'll make!!