Coconut Ice Cream With Grand Marnier Apricot Sauce Food

GRAND MARNIER SAUCE

Steps:

• Beat egg yolks, sugar and flour with a electronic mixer until lightly lemon colored.
• In a medium saucepan, heat milk and cream until bubbly around the edges.
• Beat into yolk mixture.
• Transfer to saucepan, cook gently over low heat, stirring constantly, until custard has thickened.
• Stir in liqueur.
• Serve warm or cold.

CHESTNUT ICE CREAM WITH CHOCOLATE GRAND MARNIER SAUCE

Steps:

• Make ice cream:
• Finely chop chestnuts and cook with 1 1/4 cups milk at a bare simmer in a large heavy saucepan, uncovered, stirring occasionally, 15 minutes. Purée in a blender until smooth (use caution when blending hot liquids).
• Bring cream and remaining 1 3/4cups milk just to a simmer in heavy saucepan and remove from heat.
• Beat together yolks and brown sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at high speed until thick and pale and mixture forms a ribbon when beaters are lifted.
• Whisk 1/3 of hot cream mixture into yolk mixture to temper, then whisk yolk mixture into remaining cream mixture. 3Whisk in chestnut purée and salt, then add zest. Cook over moderately low heat, stirring constantly, just until mixture registers 170°F on an instant-read thermometer (do not boil).
• Immediately pour custard through a fine sieve into a clean metal bowl and stir in vanilla. Set bowl in a larger bowl of ice and cold water and cool custard, stirring occasionally. Chill, surface covered with waxed paper, until cold, at least 3 hours.
• Freeze custard in ice-cream maker, then transfer to an airtight container and put in freezer to harden.
• Make sauce:
• Bring cream just to a simmer in a heavy saucepan over moderate heat and remove from heat. Add chocolate and butter, whisking until smooth. Whisk in Grand Marnier.
• Serve ice cream with sauce.

EASY GRAND MARNIER SAUCE

Steps:

• Combine sugar, water and lemon juice in a saucepan.
• Stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved.
• Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and simmer, uncovered, for about 5 minutes or until mixture becomes slightly syrupy.
• Remove from heat, stir in Grand Marnier and strawberries.
• Serve warm.
• My favorite is with pound cake and vanilla ice cream.

COCONUT ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Combine the milk and cream of coconut in the container of a food processor or blender, and mix thoroughly. Stir in cream and flaked coconut.
• Pour into the container of an ice cream maker, and freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions.