Friday, January 8, 2010

Apple crumble ice cream

Apple crumble ice cream / Sorvete de crumble de maçã

In one of my days off I woke up decided to organize my bookshelf – it was a huge mess, you have no idea...
Going through all those books, magazines and recipe prints I ended up finding a CD I thought I’d lost for good – in moments like that I understand why my grandma always told me to be organized... :)

My favorite song on that CD is “Up from under” and from it comes one of my all time favorite song verses: “those days before I met you girl were just ice cream falling down on the shoes of my world” – if that isn’t proof of how important ice cream is to mankind, I don’t know what is. :)

Apple crumble ice cream / Sorvete de crumble de maçã

Apple crumble ice cream
from Australian Gourmet Traveller

Custard:
2 ½ cups (600ml) heavy cream
1 ¼ cups (300ml) whole milk
3 cinnamon quills
5 egg yolks
¼ cup + 2 tablespoons (74g) caster sugar
¼ cup (44g) brown sugar, packed

Caramelized apple:
½ cup + 2 tablespoons (124g) caster sugar
3 tablespoons vodka
¼ cup (60ml) heavy cream
1 ½ tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
1 apple, peeled, cored and cut into 1cm dice

Crumble:
½ cup + 1 tablespoon (80g) self-rising flour
1/3 cup + 1 tablespoon (71g) brown sugar, packed
½ cup (72g) hazelnuts, coarsely ground
¼ cup (56g) cold butter, coarsely chopped
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Start by making the custard: combine cream, milk and cinnamon quills in a saucepan and bring just to the boil over a medium heat. Remove from heat, cover and stand for 30 minutes to infuse. Whisk egg yolks and sugars in a bowl until thick and pale. Reheat the cream mixture, pour gradually over the yolk cream, whisking to combine. Return to saucepan and cook over a medium heat until mixture coats the back of a spoon, strain into a bowl and cool completely. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours.

For caramelized apple, combine sugar, 2 tablespoons vodka and ¼ cup (60ml) water in a frying pan and cook over medium-high heat, stirring until sugar dissolves. Bring to the boil and cook for 4-5 minutes or until dark golden, add cream and butter – carefully, the mixture will bubble – and cook for another minute or until combined. Add apple, stir to coat then cook for 5 minutes or until apple is tender. Add the remaining vodka, stir to combine, then remove from heat and cool completely.*

Now, the crumble: preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F. Combine all ingredients in a bowl and, using fingertips, rub together until mixture resembles coarse breadcrumbs (mixture should have large clusters). Spread over a baking paper-lined large baking sheet and bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden. Cool completely and coarsely crumble.
Freeze the custard in an ice-cream machine according to manufacturer’s instructions. Spoon into a 2 liter-capacity rectangular container, drizzle with the caramelized apple mixture, swirling to combine and form a ripple effect. Scatter the crumble mixture on top and freeze for 3 hours or until required.

* after cooling, the caramel got too hard. So I drizzle it with a little heavy cream, popped it in the microwave oven for 45 seconds and then mixture it all together

Serves 6 – I wasn’t sure my ice cream maker would hold all the custard so I halved the recipe

20 comments:

  1. I was *just* looking up some new icecream recipes as this popped into my feed reader. Look forward to trying it!

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  2. Novel idea, instead of making them as two seperate entities, combine them into one heavenly being... ahhh. I think I just need some caramel sauce.

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  3. Just mouth-watering! Wish I can have some now...mmmm

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  4. Wow...this looks absolutely delicious. I just started a food blog, and I've never made ice cream, but this looks like a wonderful place to start--when I try it, I'll post the process and results on my blog (with full credit of course).

    http://edanacooks.blogspot.com/

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  5. Delicious. I bet you could change it up with different fruit and make all sorts of crumble ice cream!

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  6. Hi Dear
    This will be a joke for you,but really you are the best Ice Maker in the planet,and i will be lucky man if I will get a chance to eat the ice cream made by you...

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  7. Thanks to you I am now hooked to Donna Hay - I hunt it down all over town :) Can't wait for ice cream season here.

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  8. Oh, this looks so good! I love crumbles when it gets cold, but even in the winter I can't resist ice cream!

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  9. this looks SO delicious!

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  10. Super idea, Patricia. I adore crumbles AND ice cream, so why not together?
    (Of course, I usually top my crumbles WITH ice cream!)

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  11. Oh my gosh. What a great idea! Doing it this way takes the guilt out of eating apple crumble - with ice cream on top. Just eat it together!

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  12. Brilliant ice cream flavor! I love ice creams with something extra to chew on in them.

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  13. This looks better than good Pat! Wish I had some now - would go really well in the always hot weather we have!

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  14. Joefish, thank you for visiting! I hope you give it a try!

    Vickys, thank you for stopping by! ;)

    MaryMoh, thank you for visiting!

    Edana, thank you for stopping by! That would be wonderful - I'd be honored!

    Gala, you are so right - it would be lovely to try it with other fruit!

    Maya, I'm glad to hear that - Donna's recipes are fabulous!

    Ivory Pomegranate, I love crumbles, too - I'm glad you liked the recipe!

    Shannon, thank you!

    Barbara, thank you! Hope you give this a try sometime.

    Abby, you've said it all, darling. ;)

    Anna, I love the different textures, too! Thank you for stopping by!

    Dharm, it's been awfully hot here, too - thank you for stopping by!

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  15. Hmm ... Apple crumble ice cream sounds so decadent!

    Pei-Lin

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  16. you're the only person i "know" (apart from me :D) who keeps on making ice cream all year round... and that's so great :D
    this one's amazong too
    thanks 4 posting your wonderful, delicious recipes Patricia :)

    (i have a question 4 you: i added you to my contacts on flickr, however i don't get notifications any time you upload one of your pics :( you don't know why, do you? :( it's just that if i see new pics, i come here in order to look for a new recipe, and if i don't i think you haven't posted anything, and then i find out that you've posted like 10 new recipes... alright, that's a stupid thing, but that's not stupid to me. )

    Thanks,
    xoxo

    Sere

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  17. Hi, Sere!
    I adore, love ice cream - even though it is summer here now (I'm in Brazil), I make ice cream even in the winter. ;)
    Thank YOU for visiting and for your kind words!

    As for flickr, I don't get notifications either. :(
    To make things easier for you: I post every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. ;)
    xx

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  18. Ooo yum I'm a sucker for ice creams that have crumb type pieces in them!

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  19. I really could eat ice cream all year round. This one is definitely one of those flavours!

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