It looks like the nice weather is settling in (shyly yes, but it is settling in), a great opportunity to make a homemade ice cream with a delicious coffee aroma... And I love coffee! Usually, I consume it in a "hot" version, like you probably do, several times a day - because it is no less necessary. I also love to enjoy it in pastries: in a mousse in a dessert, in a sponge cake, in macaroons etc. But I must confess my weakness for coffee ice cream! Perfectly what I need when the temperatures rise and push us towards frozen desserts.
I wanted this ice cream to be edible by everyone, including children, so I made sure to use decaffeinated coffee in my recipe (an important detail, otherwise I'll have to deal with overexcited children, and that's less cool). I added crunch to the ice cream by adding large chocolate chips, you can also call them "chunks": I love it when they crunch under the tooth, mixed with the ice cream, it's pure happiness. In ice cream, as you know, there are a lot of dairy products: whole milk, crème fraîche, so to lighten the lactose concentration a little, I replaced cow's milk with vegetable milk. I chose rice milk because I didn't want to distort the taste of the coffee with almond milk. I was worried about the ice cream "setting" by reducing the fat content of cow's milk, but not at all: see for yourself in the photo, it holds up very well, you can make nice balls.
To make the ice cream, I inaugurated my new toy, a turbine that I will present to you in detail (and in situation) in my next article. I who had a classic ice cream maker before, I was simply amazed by the result obtained via the ice turbine. In any case, it is really worth it that I present it to you at work.
Let's move on to the recipe...
- 185 ml of milk cow's milk or vegetable milk
- 300 g whole cream
- 4 egg yolks
- 180 ml lukewarm decaffeinated coffee
- 100 g granulated sugar
- 20 g bitter cocoa powder
- 1/4 tsp natural vanilla extract
- 35 g full-bodied, crushed dark chocolate
- Start to prepare the day before: mix the milk, cream, coffee, cocoa, vanilla and half the sugar in a saucepan and heat over medium heat.
- Whisk the rest of the sugar with the egg yolks until they turn white.
- Pour a little hot milk over the yolks to bring them slowly to temperature (without making scrambled eggs!) Then return everything to the saucepan.
- Increase the heat until it reaches around 80 °, if you don't have a thermometer, know that the mixture must coat a wooden spoon. Cover and let cool before putting in the refrigerator overnight or at least 2-3 hours.
- The next day, place the liquid in the ice cream maker or ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions. Your ice cream will aerate and gain volume.
- Just before the end of cooling, when the ice cream is almost ready, add the crushed chocolate pieces. Pour into a specific container and freeze for about 2 hours to be able to make pretty scoops of ice cream. You can also consume it directly, it will be just a little flexible.
your ice cream is perfect !!! : P
Very nice ice cream (but I don't like coffee :( )
This turbine (I have the old model, almost identical) is great indeed!
I advise you to test my vanilla ice cream recipe in it, a killer: p
http://empreintesucree.fr/glace-vanille/
This turbine is just awesome, so I have lots of ideas in mind for my future ice creams :)
I made my vanilla ice cream by adding a caramel sauce (quite thick) at the end, crazy *-*
The advantage of the turbine is that you can add things in it (like caramelized hazelnuts) and it won't stop it from turning!
With a caramel sauce it must be delicious too :)
I'm not usually a big coffee ice cream person but I'm willing to make an exception!! And it's a very good idea to have replaced cow's milk with vegetable milk, I'll keep that for next time.
I like to change a little from cow's milk from time to time, and you see, the texture is not so different in the end...
Very pretty ice cream, your photos are incredible! I myself am a fan of small pieces of crunchy chocolate in coffee ice cream. I will test this recipe well soon to treat my darling crazy about coffee ice cream.
He should like this one then :)
I think I'm going to lick the screen ;-) I don't know if it's the effect of the turbine that seems to give it this crazy texture but it makes me want to try it! Kisses Aurélie :-)
Yes, it's the turbine that gives this texture "like the pros"! Kisses Cécile :)
Very very tasty this ice cream!
The photos are very beautiful ! it just makes you hungry! well done