Vanilla ice cream with waffles
Vanilla ice cream with waffles is a recipe featuring fresh ingredients from the Sweet Sauce category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!
Ingredients
- 0.5 l milk
- 0.25 L whipping cream
- 1 Vanilla bean
- 7 egg yolks
- 200 g sugar
- 150 g dark couverture chocolate
- 125 ml milk
- 100 g whipping cream
- 0.5 Vanilla bean
- 75 g soft butter
- 10 ml cognac (or Grand Marnier, to taste)
- 4 waffles
Instructions
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1.
Slice the vanilla bean lengthwise, scrape out the seeds and stir them with the vanilla bean into the cream-milk mixture and bring to a boil.
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2.
Beat the egg yolks with the sugar in a bowl until creamy.
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3.
Stir the boiling milk into the egg yolk mixture, pour everything back into the pot, remove the vanilla bean, and cook over low heat with a wooden spatula until the custard thickens; it must never boil.
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4.
Strain the vanilla custard through a sieve, cool it in ice water while stirring occasionally.
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5.
Pour the cold custard into an ice cream maker and churn to finish.
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(Without an ice cream maker, pour into a shallow metal bowl and freeze, stirring repeatedly during the first hour).
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(Yields about 1 liter of ice cream. Approximately 16 servings (about 5 cl each)).
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For the chocolate sauce, chop the couverture. Boil milk and cream with the sliced vanilla bean, add the chocolate and melt it carefully, then whisk in the soft butter and fold the chocolate-milk mixture into the butter while stirring).
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Flavor the chocolate sauce with cognac or Grand Marnier to taste. Arrange vanilla ice cream and waffles on dessert plates and drizzle with chocolate sauce. Serve immediately.
