Wednesday 30 October 2013

Brown Butter Ice Cream







 




Everything is better with butter... even ice cream.



Brown Butter Ice Cream
slightly adapted from Gourmet Traveller
Makes about 1 litre

200g chilled butter, diced
500ml milk
250g cream
8 egg yolks
140g vanilla sugar

Cook the butter over high heat in a medium saucepan until nut-brown and foaming, about 5 minutes. Set aside to cool.

Bring the milk and half the cream to the boil in a large saucepan.

Meanwhile, in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, whisk the egg yolks and sugar until pale and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Whisk in the cooled brown butter. Reduce the speed of the mixer to low and gradually add the milk mixture. Return the mixture to the pan and, stirring continuously, cook the mixture on medium-low heat until it thickens and coats the back of a wooden spoon, about 8 minutes. Pour the mixture into a mixing bowl, add the remaining cream and let it cool completely before covering it with plastic wrap and chilling it in the fridge for a few ours or overnight.

Once chilled, churn in an ice cream machine using the manufacturers instructions. Mine takes about 20 minutes to get to the "Soft-Serve" consistency. Eat right away, or store in a freezer-safe tub in the freezer remembering to take it out of the freezer about 30 minutes to soften slightly before you want to serve it.

12 comments:

  1. This is the holy of hollies ice cream. Geez Louise heart attack city right here, but it sounds and looks heavenly.

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  2. Oh my gorgeous!! This looks amazing!

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    1. Thanks Marie. Ice cream is always pretty. right?

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  3. Gah, gorgeous. Those eggs (beautiful orangey color) and brown butter? Do you really need anything else after that? I think not.

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    1. Nup nothin'. The eggs are from my girls. They get lots of green food (grass, turnip tops, carrot tops, beet greens, silverbeet, spinach, herbs). That's what makes their egg yolks so orange.

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  4. Is that even possible???? I bet it's the best ice cream ever. Brown butter ice cream...I'm dying not to taste it right now! :P

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  5. I am dying to try this... I bet it is just heaven!

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    1. Thanks Aimee - It's SO GOOD I made never eat any other ice cream again... ever... or at least until I make my next favourite ice cream.

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  6. Oooohhhh yes. Browned butter makes everything better. I can imagine how good this ice cream would be. Why are we not next door neighbours?!

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    1. Yes, why are we not next door neighbours? We could do some serious damage to each other... in a good way.

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